Royal Dutch Shell is to axe 6,500 jobs this year and step up spending cuts as it seeks to reassure investors it can withstand an extended period of lower oil prices, even through its planned $70 billion acquisition of BG Group.
A small number of Google Street View cars are recording more than photos of the road — they’re also taking snapshots of the air quality around them. Aclima, a company that creates networks of environmental sensors, announced this week that it’s been working with Google to put air quality detectors on some of its cars.
Improvements in vehicle quality have made cars more reliable, so consumers are less likely to scrap their vehicles when they buy new ones.
The federal gas tax is, as it should be, a key source of funding for highway spending. Currently, the tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. The problem is that it has been 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993.
More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and its tributaries due to warming water temperatures.
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski is sponsoring a bill to lift the ban on exporting American crude oil. Send U.S. oil abroad, she argues, so America can “compete against our foes in a way that doesn’t involve sending our troops in and boots on the ground.”
U.S. energy companies are planning more layoffs, asset sales and financial maneuvers to deal with a recent, sudden drop in U.S. crude-oil prices to under $50 a barrel, the lowest level in four months.
llions of vacationers escape to national parks each summer to take in the fresh air and scenic vistas.
But a report released Tuesday by a conservation group finds that some of the nation’s most treasured landscapes are plagued with polluted air and hazy skies — and remain decades behind schedule in restoring visibility.
Oil futures settled on Monday at their lowest levels since March, with U.S. prices under $48 a barrel, pressured by a weekly climb in rigs as a steep plunge in the Shanghai stock market fed worries about a slowdown in Chinese energy demand.
The Marcellus and Utica shale natural gas fields continue sizzling in the Northern Panhandle, as West Virginia statistics show drillers pumped nearly three times as much natural gas in the region during 2014 compared to 2012.
