By H. JOSEF HEBERT
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama wants to use his economic aid plan to cut energy use in federal buildings, a long-sought goal that has achieved mixed success.
“If we do that effectively, then over the long term we are going to save billions of dollars in energy costs for the federal government [...]

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 [...]

Missouri University of Science and Technology was recently awarded two $10,000 grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for research related to solar energy and energy management.
The following are primary investigators on both grants: Dr. Stuart Baur, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering; Dr. Katie Grantham Lough, assistant professor of interdisciplinary engineering; and [...]

By Marc Levy Associated Press Writer
HOUSTON, Pa. — Illuminated drilling rigs glow for miles from atop flattened hills when night falls in this rolling farm and coal country in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Tanker trucks back up traffic on two-lane roads, and Texans wearing heavy coats and muddy boots fill Shelley’s Pike Diner at lunch as land owners [...]

RICHLAND, Wash.
On Christmas, Energy Northwest celebrates the 25th anniversary of the first fuel loading at its nuclear power plant at Hanford.
The Columbia Generating Station produces enough power for more than a million homes. It produces about 12 percent of the electricity distributed in the Northwest by the Bonneville Power Administration.
Nuclear power produces no greenhouse gases. [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drivers are paying the lowest gasoline prices in five years heading into a Christmas holiday week, the government said on Monday.
The national price for regular unleaded gasoline is $1.65 a
gallon, down just over half a cent from the previous week and $1.33 less than a year ago, the federal Energy Information [...]

WASHINGTON: It is a simple transfer of immense power.
On January 20, an unobtrusive military officer carrying a small leather-bound metal briefcase will follow President George W Bush up to Capitol Hill. After the inauguration ceremony, he will accompany President Barack Obama back to the White House.
Inside the attache, known as “the football”, are the codes [...]

By Kenneth Musante, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Price remains above $2 a gallon in only 3 states and the District of Columbia.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Gas prices fell for the 75th consecutive day on Monday, and sold below $2 a gallon in all but three states and the District of Columbia, according to a daily survey of [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Oil prices tumbled below $50 a barrel Monday as National Bureau of Economic Research reported that the U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007 and the Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 700 points.
A tandem of bleak economic reports led to an early decline even before the NBER report [...]

By Andrea Jaramillo and Michael J. Moore
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — For five years, Mario Hernandez’s Bogota-based, leather goods-company sent record shipments of designer wallets, purses and shoes over the border to Venezuela. Demand got so hot, Hernandez says with a laugh, that he started signing autographs at stores and restaurants in Caracas.
That boom, part of [...]