ROUNDUP, Mont. — Success has for years lurked just around the corner for John Baugues Jr., a coal mining entrepreneur who arrived here in 1995 after starting and folding a string of mines in his native Tennessee.
Taking control that year of Bull Mountain Land Co., which has an estimated 340 million tons of coal [...]
The domain of snakes, scorpions and scrub brush since time immemorial, a stretch of desert in northwest Peru could soon become an unlikely generator of jobs and economic well-being, thanks to the booming U.S. market for ethanol.
At a ceremony this month, energy firm Maple Cos. closed a deal to buy 25,000 acres of unused and [...]
If Congress allows oil and natural gas drilling off the Virginia coast, New Jersey’s $36 billion-a-year tourism industry and fragile coastal ecosystems could be devastated, state Environment Commissioner Lisa Jackson told a Senate panel Thursday.
The state’s commercial and sport fishing industries as well as aquaculture operations, which together generate $4.5 billion a year, also [...]
As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it [...]
As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it [...]
Ethanol may not be the energy panacea many in Hawai’i had hoped for.
Producing the biofuel from sugar cane would help move Hawai’i away from dependence on imported oil while invigorating the farm industry.
Sounds great, but making it happen is far from simple.
The barriers to producing ethanol locally include:
# Building production plants.
# Getting water rights switched [...]
Agroup of Maryland grain farmers who have been trying to push ahead with plans to build the state’s first ethanol production plant can be forgiven for feeling as though they are pursuing an elusive objective.
“We thought we would be further along than we are at this time, but we are working at it,” Eastern Shore [...]
California Oil & Gas has signed a Letter of Understanding with March Resources through which the Company will farm-in on an exciting exploration program on the Pica North Block in the Tamarugal Basin of Northern Chile, with an option to obtain an interest in the Pica South Block. March has received approval from the Ministry [...]
Thailand’s petroleum giant, PTT Public Company Limited (PTT), has successfully discovered a new petroleum source in an offshore concessionary area in neighbouring Myanmar.
Mr. Maroot Mrigadat, President of PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP), an affiliate of PTT, announced on Wednesday that the company had discovered the potential petroleum source in the sea, about [...]
China plans to promote the development of dimethyl ether (DME), a fuel created from coal, which is being touted as a cleaner substitute for diesel, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Standards for the use of DME as a civil fuel were bing being drawn up, the report quoted a circular from the energy policy-making National [...]
