U.S. state attorneys general are meeting in Idaho for a conference aimed at addressing the location of power plants, efforts to restrict energy use, renewable energy mandates and other energy-related legal issues likely to arise in the coming years.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden told his counterparts from across the country that attorneys general are often [...]
Shares of ethanol maker Aventine Renewable Energy Inc. soared over 23 percent after its first-quarter revenue and adjusted net income easily beat analyst estimates.
The stock rose $1, or 23.3 percent, to $5.30 in afternoon trading.
The company swung to a first-quarter loss of $10.8 million, or 26 cents per share, compared with a gain of $14.9 [...]
Members of the Rockefeller family, descended from the founder of what is now Exxon Mobil Corp., want the oil giant to split the roles of chairman and CEO and to put more focus on renewable energy.
The family members, who describe themselves as the company’s longest continuous shareholders, say they are concerned that the Irving, Texas-based [...]
Waste Management, Inc. opened a renewable energy facility at a company landfill in Virginia. The company says the landfill’s methane gas will produce 4.8 megawatts of electricity — enough energy to power more than 4,700 homes.
The plant is part of Waste Management’s plan to build 60 renewable energy facilities over the next five years. Currently, [...]
Greenpeace activists dumped 200 kilos of coal at the entrance of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Thursday and unfurled a banner with the message “Atienza, don’t be a climate criminal.”
The activists are demanding that Secretary Lito Atienza immediately reject all plans to construct a dangerous coal-fired power plant in Iloilo City.
Instead [...]
Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries signed an EGP 604 million (US$ 109 million) contract with the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), a subsidiary of the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity, for the construction of new 62MW Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power (ISCC) Plant in Kuraymat, Egypt.
The scope of work under the contract includes all civil work [...]
Solar MW Energy Inc. and affiliate Ecosystem Solar Electric Corp. has commenced the development of another “jewel” near Barstow’s Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, Southern California. A nominal in the aggregate of 59.4 megawatt (MW) solar thermal electric hybrid, utility-scale merchant power plant, to be sited on green field land parcel, privately owned by the [...]
Oil and Gas Executives say government involvement in supporting the development of renewable energy sources is necessary to alleviate the problem of declining oil reserves, according to the results of a survey conducted by KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm.
In the KPMG survey, which polled 553 financial executives from oil and gas companies [...]
Under political pressure over climate change, the coal industry has vowed to raise at least $1 billion to develop technology to curb greenhouse gases.
The announcement increases by $700 million the funds producers have committed to clean coal technology.
Both the federal government and Labor have put much store in the technology as a way of reducing [...]
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association has backed down on plans to build three, new, coal-fired power plants, but the move may not be enough to retain a local member co-op beyond its current contract.
The board of the Delta-Montrose Electric Association, a member of Tri-State, voted in December against a 10-year contact extension with Tri-State that [...]
