Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the Obama Administration’s order of over 17,000 fuel-efficient vehicles using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
“We know that we can create jobs and save taxpayer dollars while protecting our planet, and with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we are. The news that General Services [...]
Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President Obama’s energy secretary, recently gave a speech in which two key words never passed his lips. He talked about energy efficiency, electricity transmission lines and renewable energy sources. He waxed eloquent about technology and the need to fund energy research. But afterward, Chevron vice chairman Peter [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy has begun accepting applications for two electric vehicle programs funded with $400 million from the federal stimulus legislation.
The DOE has allotted the money to establish development, demonstration, evaluation, and education projects “to accelerate the market introduction and penetration of advanced electric drive vehicles.” Applications are due May 13.
And the DOE [...]
Royal Dutch Shell weighed on energy stocks on Tuesday after the oil major said it fell short of replacing its reserves as it moved to prepare for a steep slide in oil prices.
Energy stocks fell across the board, pulled down by weakness in the broad market and slack oil prices.
The Amex Oil Index (XOI) [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Google Inc on Tuesday said it would use its software skills to help consumers track their home energy usage and thereby lower demand and the global warming emissions that come from producing electricity.
The move is part of Google’s effort to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into renewable energy, electricity-grid upgrades [...]
BOSTON – Citgo, the Venezuelan government’s Texas-based oil subsidiary, has suspended shipments of heating oil for poor families in the United States, citing falling oil prices and the world economic crisis, the nonprofit organization that distributes the fuel said Monday.
The controversial program gave fuel from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government to 200,000 households in 23 [...]
BAGHDAD — Iraq announced on Wednesday that it would begin a second round of bids to license international oil companies to develop 11 oil and gas fields or groups of fields.
Iraq’s oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, said at a news conference that he hoped that these fields could be producing 2 to 2.5 million barrels of [...]
By Megan Blank
For The ReporterWith several recently completed facility upgrades, Pennridge School Board is looking to continue improvements, including lowering energy consumption.
The district’s facilities committee most recently met with three energy consultants to hear possibilities for the school district to lower energy use.
Representatives from Honeywell Building Solutions, Johnson Controls and Aramark were present at the [...]
By RENEE SCHOOF - McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — With global warming melting the Arctic’s eons-old ice at an alarming rate, shipping and oil companies are looking ahead at how to exploit the new open waters.
For the past 30 years, the summer Arctic icepack has been shrinking. In 2007, the melt reached record levels. This past summer, [...]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The prime minister of energy-rich Trinidad has told its citizens to expect cuts in government programs because of an anticipated loss of $1 billion due to the fall in prices of crude oil, natural gas and petrochemical products.
Prime Minister Patrick Manning told his country in a televised address Thursday night [...]
