The dragon is thirsty. China's consumption of oil has risen exponentially in the past decade and by last year it was the largest oil importer after the US. Slowly but surely China is buying up foreign oil and gas reserves...
BP has announced that it is planning to spend $500 million to set up a biofuels research centre that will be attached to a major US or UK university. BP says the centre – which will be called the BP...
The Democrats have announced key issues on which they will fight the mid-term elections in November. These include eliminating subsidies for oil and gas companies as well as a 25 percent reduction in oil use by 2020, largely by developing...
Sick of those red-eye flights? Well you can get more sleep and help the fight against global warming by no longer flying at night. The reason? A new study has found that the condensation trails, or contrails, left by the...
There will be humiliation for BP this week, when its Alaskan Division will have to open up its offices to US lawyers working for a federal grand jury in Anchorage who are investigating the March spill of 270,000 gallons of...
A bipartisan group of western US governors – the Western Governor’s Association - has finally acknowledged that greenhouse gases are on the rise. They are now arguing that action is needed to reduce global warming. But here is the catch...
One of the main tools of the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism, will reduce carbon emissions by a billion tonnes by the end of 2012, the end of the present Kyoto commitment period, the UN has claimed. “We have...
MoveOn has just announced it will lauch a new campaign for a clean energy future for the US which will start with their "Oil Free Congress" initiative that kicks off later this month. Along with health care, this was the...
As I write, another teeming downpour pounds northwest Vermont. Over seven inches of rain fell in May, more that twice the average and a new record. A record summer for mosquitoes is predicted, even if the rain abates. A mild...
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter and therefore the world's largest indirect polluter, has finally signalled it will help the fight against global warming through, wait for it, helping research into reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the oil industry!...
