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,” [...]

Energy company, S.D.E., which has developed an innovative technology for generating sea wave electricity, has signed an agreement for selling sea wave power plants throughout China. Construction of the power plants will be financed by investors from Hong Kong and China.
Two joint venture companies, formed in Hong Kong by S.D.E and the investors for the [...]

Currently, global sulfur production is mainly concentrated in Canada, Russia and the Middle East. The global trade volume of sulfur in 2006 reached 27.7 million tons and meanwhile, China imported 8.81 million tons, accounting for 31.8% of the world’s total. According to the statistics, China consumed about 10 million tons of sulfur in 2006, while [...]

The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency.
The IEA envisions an “energy revolution” that would greatly reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels while maintaining [...]

Senate Republicans blocked a global warming bill that would have required major reductions in greenhouse gases.
Democratic leaders fell a dozen votes short of getting the 60 needed to end a Republican filibuster on the measure and bring the bill up for a vote, prompting Majority Leader Harry Reid to pull the legislation from consideration.
The Senate [...]

A Senate bill to cut greenhouse gases and address climate change is heading toward almost certain defeat after nearly a week of stalemate and partisan bickering. Both sides are charging the other with blocking action.
The Associated Press has learned that senators close to the issue privately say there is virtually no chance to get the [...]

Shares of China’s Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. trading in the U.S. helped pull an index of emerging markets ADRs down in Wednesday afternoon trading.
The company’s ADRs fell $11, or 10.3 percent, to $97.71. ADR stands for American Depositary Receipt, which is a security designed to allow U.S. investors to trade shares of companies based overseas.
The [...]

Sabah can be a major economic force in the country if the plan to build a 300mw power plant by Petronas and Yayasan Sabah as well as the emphasis on downstream oil and gas industry with the proposed construction of a petrochemical plant in Kimanis materialise.
The announcement on the two mega projects by Prime Minister [...]

Sterlite Industries (India) Limited (“Sterlite”), a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, the London-based FTSE 100 metal and mining group, and ASARCO LLC (“Asarco”), a Tucson based mining, smelting and refining company, announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement for the sale to Sterlite of substantially all the operating assets of Asarco for $2.6 [...]

Indonesian state coal miner PT Bukit Asam Tbk expects its coal export prices to rise by at least 45 percent this year, in line with rising global prices and strong demand, a company official said on Thursday.
Bukit Asam — the smallest of Indonesia’s three listed coal miners — sold coal in the overseas market at [...]