India and the US have decided to enhance their clean energy cooperation by establishing a clearing house to act as a central point of information on coal bed and coal mine methane projects in India.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with other US federal partners, is providing assistance in the development of the information centre [...]
China has shuttered more than 8,000 mines over the last 12 months in an effort to more effectively regulate the industry, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday.
“A series of policies and measures have come out to tighten up mining rights and management, promote the development of mining rights…and strengthen management [...]
OIL tycoon Larry Kinch has signed a deal worth an estimated $120m (£63m) to extract oil and gas from an offshoot of the Brent field for Shell and ExxonMobil.
The production deal is the biggest yet for Kinch’s company, Energy Development Partners, which hopes to sign a bigger contract before Christmas.
EDP will invest around $30m [...]
The expedited permit process for a proposed ethanol plant in St. James Parish was carried out with unusual speed, said a consultant who provides technical assistance to the Louisiana Environmental Action Network.
“The permit application review process took less than three months from submittal of the application on July 14, 2006, through agency review to public [...]
A boom in ethanol use in gasoline in the United States has led to a surge in corn prices and changed the landscape for farmers now producing for both food and energy markets.
Corn is the main crop used for ethanol, which is used as an additive in most US gasoline (petrol) and in the “E85″ [...]
Bolstered by election results, Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he wants to make Oregon a leader in the development of alternative energy.
He has developed a three-pronged energy plan, which includes combinations of mandates and tax breaks. Bill writers are already drafting proposals for early introduction to the Legislature, which convenes in January The election sustained a [...]
Sometimes it turns out better when plans don’t work out.
Just ask Travis Creswell, former Crowder College student and now owner of Ozark Energy Services in Joplin. On Thursday, Creswell was awarded the Crowder MARET Center Energy Excellence Award during an “Energy, Environment and Emergency†conference at the college.
The award singles out businesses that “demonstrate an [...]
Just a few months ago House Republicans and representatives of the energy industry were poised to rewrite a quarter century of U.S. energy policy and open the seas off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to oil and gas drilling that environmentalists had fervently resisted.
But the Democratic victory in the midterm elections on Tuesday has changed [...]
