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The Bush-Putin Energy Pact: More than just an Agreement
For large energy-consuming countries like India, who have seen their oil import bills soar every time the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decides to put domestic revenue concerns before market interest, the announcement of the May 24 US-Russia energy cooperation pact may spell the beginning of the end of OPEC’s reign ... more
Wind power now profitable: Denmark
Denmark's independent Economic Council, known as the wise men, said yesterday the installation of wind turbines is now profitable due to new technology following 10 years of losses for the society ... more
Ice shelf collapses
In what is being touted as the biggest event of its kind in 30 years, an Antarctic ice shelf has collapsed and broken up into thousands of icebergs ... more
New petrol fuels cleaner air drive
Drivers in Edinburgh today became the first in the UK to be offered two revolutionary green fuels which promise to help cut air pollution... more
Bush's new climate strategy draws frosty global response
US President George W. Bush's new climate strategy met a frosty response around the world on Friday, with one EU politician questioning the morality of a plan that will let US Greenhouse gas emissions rise... more
Hydrogen Research Gets Proposed Funding Boost From Department of Energy
One of the biggest funding boosts in the fiscal year 2003 budget released by the Department of Energy earlier this week was in the line item for hydrogen research... more
EPA Postpones New
Smog Rules
For years, state officials complained
of the pollution, from smokestacks more than 100 feet high across the Midwest
and Ohio Valley, which send smog-causing chemicals into the Northeast, making
it more difficult for that region to meet federal air quality requirements...
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