Oil prices were steady in Asia Wednesday as traders awaited the release of a U.S. government inventory report expected to show increases in supplies of crude, gasoline and distillates.
Light, sweet crude for August delivery lost 6 cents to $67.71 a barrel in Asian electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, midmorning in Singapore. [...]
State regulators on Tuesday signed off on plans to build one of the nation’s first plants that would turn dirty coal into cleaner fuel, generating electricity while dramatically reducing smog and mercury pollution.
If built amid cornfields outside Taylorville, about 200 miles southwest of Chicago, the 630-megawatt plant would provide a lucrative boost to the state’s [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy said a prototype coal dryer project at an Underwood, N.D., power plant is so successful it’s being expanded.
Department officials said the technology at the Great River Energy Co.’s Coal Creek Station has proven so successful the power company intends not only to install full-size dryers on the station’s Unit [...]
With Illinois backers among the biggest boosters, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing for a bill to encourage development of a domestic industry for producing liquid fuel from coal.
Illinois Republican John Shimkus and Virginia Democrat Rick Boucher, both members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, plan within days to introduce a bill they say [...]
U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has signed a so- called record of decision that makes way for a $569 million coal-fired power plant to be built near Orlando, Fla., the Department of Energy said Tuesday.
The plant, which will use a unique coal gasification technology to make it cleaner and more efficient than traditional coal plants, [...]
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - From the top of a new coal-fired power plant with its 550-foot exhaust stack poking up from the flat western Iowa landscape, MidAmerican Energy Holdings chief executive David L. Sokol peered down at a train looping around a sizable mound of coal.
At this bend in the Missouri River, with Omaha visible [...]
Crude oil fell on speculation that U.S. fuel inventories are sufficient to meet demand as temperatures decline.
Prices jumped as much as 2.8 percent in early trading because of forecasts for colder weather in most of the U.S. Inventories of crude oil, heating oil, natural gas, gasoline and diesel in the week ended Jan. 12 were [...]
Gov. Sarah Palin told lawmakers Wednesday to soon expect legislation outlining the process for a natural gas pipeline.
In her first State of the State address, Palin minced no words about her priorities for this year’s legislative session, which began on Tuesday.
“This gas line, it’s going to fuel our homes, our economy, and careers for Alaskans [...]
Light, sweet crude for February delivery dropped 77 cents to $55.32 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Europe. February Brent crude at London’s ICE Futures exchange fell 67 cents to $54.95 a barrel.
The Nymex contract had fallen 22 cents to settle at $56.09 a barrel Monday on [...]
Growing demand for ethanol has boosted prices for the corn-based fuel additive, worrying ethanol supporters just as they’re making inroads getting motorists interested in the alternative fuel.
Greg Boesch, who owns Fred’s Mini Mart in Shadeland, said when he began selling E85, it was between 30 cents and 40 cents a gallon cheaper than gasoline.
Now, he’s [...]
