The headline of an article in the Washington Post on Tuesday might have gotten a lot of people excited about the fact that air travel may be more environmentally friendly than driving. Unfortunately, the analysis out of the University of Michigan featured in Tuesday’s article leads to some false conclusions, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).
The state of Florida is urging the federal government to postpone planned permitting of seismic exploration for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean, saying there is not enough information about the impact on endangered whales, sea turtles and fish.
An Audi research facility in Dresden, Germany, has managed to create the first batches of diesel fuel with a net-zero carbon footprint — made from carbon dioxide (CO2), water and renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power.
Even as prices rise for oil contracts that will be settled in the next few months, the price of oil is actually falling when delivery won’t take place for years.
As a retailer who has been selling E15 for a year, I know firsthand the benefits it has for the environment, consumers and retailers like me: it’s cleaner, it’s cheaper, and it gives drivers and retailers more options.
Natural gas prices plunged to their lowest point in nearly three years as weather updates suggest this spring could bring some of the weakest demand in more than a decade.
Royal Dutch Shell and France’s Total have delayed multibillion-dollar offshore oil projects in west Africa as part of efforts to rein in costs and shore up cash flow following the collapse in crude prices.
As Pope Francis prepares to deliver what is likely to be a highly influential encyclical this summer on environmental degradation and the effects of human-caused climate change on the poor, he is alarming some conservatives in the United States who are loath to see the Catholic Church reposition itself as a mighty voice in a cause they do not believe in.
Nevada businessmen, Charlie Good, and cattleman Bill Couser, were among thsoe who attended the American Coalition for Ethanol Fly-in in Washington, D.C., last month as part of the effort by fuel retailers who have found themselves in a battle with big oil to offer higher ethanol blends.
A growing number of the world’s wealthiest people, From both ends of the political spectrum, are banding together to bet on new technologies that could displace fossil fuels. The one thing they have in common? They believe it will make them a lot of money.
