Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) heralded Secretary of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty as a trailblazer for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy and a truly transformative leader. PennFuture’s comments came as McGinty announced her intention to leave office on July 18, 2008.
“Secretary McGinty has created a record of unparalleled achievement for the Keystone State’s environment and economy,” [...]

Oil prices finished about where they began, after jumping more than $2 earlier on reports of lower U.S. oil stockpiles and an Iranian missile test.
Light, sweet crude for August delivery rose a penny to settle at $136.05 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, but prices shifted between positive and negative territory as traders [...]

Beacon Energy Corp., an emerging producer and investor in the developing biodiesel sector, has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beacon Energy Holdings, Inc., a public reporting company. As a result of the transaction, all stockholders of Beacon Energy Corp. exchanged their interests for stock of the public company.
Source: Beacon Energy Corp.
Beacon Energy Corp. was formerly [...]

TransMontaigne Partners L.P. announced that effective July 8, 2008, Charles L. Dunlap has been appointed to serve as a member of the Board of Directors and will also serve as a member of the Conflicts Committee of TransMontaigne GP L.L.C., the General Partner of the Partnership. The General Partner is responsible for managing the [...]

Kaiser Aluminum Corp. will add surcharges to all new orders of fabricated aluminum products starting Tuesday to offset rising costs for natural gas, electricity and diesel fuel.
The company said commodity prices for natural gas and diesel fuel was about 60 percent higher in May compared with the average 2007 price.

Dimension Resources Ltd. said it failed to get approval from the South African Reserve Bank to acquire a diamond-mining business in South Africa.
The company also said it did not get a company that produces oil for bio-diesel as it could not secure title to company’s assets.
The company reported it widened its full-year pretax net loss [...]

Shares of petroleum refiners hit new 52-week lows as the price of crude oil surged.
Valero Energy Corp., Tesoro Corp., Sunoco Inc., Holly Corp. and Frontier Oil Corp. all hit new lows in morning trading before regaining some ground.
Refiners’ margins have been squeezed by rising crude prices and falling demand for refined products such as gasoline [...]

China’s National Development and Reform Commission said prices of gasoline and diesel oil will rise by 1,000 yuan ($145) per ton to 6,980 yuan ($1,015) and 6,520 yuan ($949), or 16 percent and 18 percent, respectively.
The government hiked fuel prices by about 11 percent in November but kept them frozen at that level, seeking to [...]

Oil prices settled lower for the third straight day as investors weighed expectations of higher output against the market’s ability to quench soaring global demand.
Light, sweet crude for July delivery fell 60 cents to settle at $134.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline hovered at [...]

Oil prices pulled back after OPEC questioned whether crude can remain so high through the rest of the year and the dollar gained against the euro.
Light, sweet crude for July delivery sank $1.88 to settle at $134.86 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
At the gas pump, the average national price for a gallon of [...]