Ten of the world’s big oil companies, mainly from Europe, on Friday jointly acknowledged their industry’s role in global climate change and said that they agreed with the United Nations’ goals of limiting global warming.
Tesla’s pitch wasn’t that it would compete with Bentley or Porsche in the exclusive ultra-luxury ranks. Surely the federal government didn’t create $7,500 EV tax credits to give tech billionaires a discount on a six-figure SUV, or to hand Tesla a competitive edge against Lamborghini or BMW. No, Tesla and Musk promised nothing less than […]
U.S. and Alaska state officials announced they will no longer seek an additional $92 million from Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay for environmental cleanup and restoration stemming from the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill nearly three decades ago.
The developer of a proposed ethanol plant at Deniliquin says it could create up to 400 jobs and boost the local economy by almost $60 million annually.
If you follow the news on climate change, you’ve probably noticed a shift toward apocalyptic headlines over the last year or so, especially when the topic is Antarctica. But lost in all the hype is an important message: It’s not too late to save a really, really huge proportion of the ice the frozen continent […]
Toyota, under ambitious environmental targets, is aiming to sell hardly any regular gasoline vehicles by 2050, only hybrids and fuel cells, to radically reduce emissions.
The past few weeks have seen the introduction of three new 2016 models of electric vehicles: the Chevy Volt, the Nissan Leaf and the Tesla Model X crossover SUV.
In its latest report, the IEA mentioned that some oil at European and Asian trading hubs was now being stored on vessels, despite prices not really justifying the cost. The implication is that regular storage tanks are getting a tad full.
Iowa State University’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development released a new study that concludes the original 2016 RFS targets can be met through E85 consumption.
The big oil companies aren’t blind to the threat posed by ethanol. And now it appears they’re doing all they can to hamstring wider access to the fuel by artificially increasing the price of E85 at their gas stations.
