We spend billions of dollars every year on oil that could be spent on cleaner, cheaper, American-made fuels. The impact of this addiction can be seen throughout our economy in a cycle of job and money loss: AMERICAN JOBS: When oil prices fluctuate, all levels of the economy are affected. When businesses have to pay […]
Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States said they had reached a historic accord on Tuesday to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions.
You may have heard that the world could be in for 20 feet of sea level rise even if it meets its climate goal of keeping warming below 2°C. That rise would vastly reshape coastlines around the world. Specifically, 444,000 square miles of land that’s home to more than 375 million people today will be […]
Refineries and chemical plants struggling to find enough experienced people to replace a swell of retiring workers are hoping to scoop up some engineers laid off by oil and gas firms.
The IEA said lower oil prices were likely to last well into 2016.
Scientists have warned that marine life will be irreversibly changed unless CO2 emissions are drastically cut.
On the upside, this electricity boom has helped these countries lift themselves out of poverty. But it’s also meant a rapid rise in carbon-dioxide emissions — and if coal continues to be the world’s energy source of choice, we’ll have little hope avoiding drastic global warming.
Notable transactions in the period include the $158M IPO for Green Plains Partners and the $68.6M IPO for Arcadia BioSciences, the crop trait company.
Within a week, experts predict that Southern California gas prices will increase by 15 to 30 cents, the result of spring refinery problems and low import rates regionally.
Addressing climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown said, requires reckoning with things that have made life comfortable for billions of people. “Oil, gas, coal has created the wealth we enjoy,” he said. “What was the source of our wealth now becomes the challenge of our future.”
