In what many will view as another instance of the regulation-happy European Union getting smacked-down, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee has delayed until December 2011 a ruling on how to calculate greenhouse gas emissions…
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) traded higher in the after-hours session after the company gave an update to its buyback program. The company said that it would begin purchasing common stock during the current quarter…
Now that oil has bested the $82.00 per barrel mark and rallied about 15% in six weeks, investors are trying to figure out what is next. We are tracking the the United States Oil…
Crude oil traded just above $70 a barrel in late August. That was its 52-week low. It has rallied 16% since then, and the rally may not have ended. There is a great deal…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) said it has pledged collateral to cover the costs of the independent escrow fund meant to cover claims and liabilities from the Deepwater Horizon spill. That is no news. But…
We have two Chinese initial public offerings today. ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: CCIH) is a Chinese internet company and China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (NYSE: MY) is a Chinese wind turbine…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has an announcement that could be a key development in solving the problem of water supply contamination caused by the fracking process. The company has introduced a mobile evaporator…
BP Plc.’s incoming CEO (NYSE: BP) Bob Dudley knows that the public is skeptical about his company’s plans to create a Safety Division. After all, the oil company has made these promises in the…
The issue of intermittency is well-known in alternative energy circles. Solar panels don’t work when the sun doesn’t shine, nor do wind turbines when the wind doesn’t blow. But there is a more subtle…
Despite the known problems of ethanol, ethanol lives! After the closing bell on Tuesday came word that Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Global Ethanol,…
Gasoline-powered cars run on gas. It is as simple as that. Regular or high-grade–which depends on the motor. The theory behind the creation of non-gas-powered cars, or partially gas powered cars is that the…
Just over a week ago, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Petrobras, (NYSE: PBR) reached an agreement with the Brazilian government over how much the company would pay for the right to develop the so-called offshore pre-salt…
Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, may finally soon get away from being such a drag on the Brazilian stock market measured by the BOVESPA. With its mammoth stock offering just days away, the…
U.S. utilities, which are under pressure to use more environmentally friendly fuel sources, are increasingly betting their future of natural gas at the expense of coal. As Bloomberg News notes, the U.S. Department of…
A lot of companies are working on developing microbes to eat something ordinary and expel something extraordinary, like diesel fuel or methane or butanol. Laboratory scale projects have all proved the feasibility of these…