The leading U.S. trucking industry trade group laid out a plan to cut fuel consumption and emissions over the next 10 years, mostly by urging members and the public to slow down.
The American Trucking Associations, whose members include FedEx Corp., UPS Inc. and Con-way Inc., said it now costs more than $1,000 to fill a [...]

Rio de Janeiro-based CVRD (NYSE: RIO) is in talks with international steelmakers to bring new steel projects to Brazil, CFO Fábio Barbosa told analysts and investors in a presentation Thursday.
Barbosa was speaking in São Paulo during an event promoted by finance industry trade group Apimec.
CVRD has a 10% minority stake in the under-construction CSA steel [...]

President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela hopes to gradually sell off its refineries in the United States and build a new network of refineries in Latin America, part of a plan to offer his leftist allies in the region a stable oil supply.
Chavez also raised the idea of issuing a regional bond to raise [...]

Lawmakers who are looking at revamping the way the state regulates the booming oil and gas business are listening to the industry’s concerns, but that won’t stop the proposal from moving ahead, Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald said Wednesday.
Industry representatives want some clarification about what the changes will mean for them, she said.
“It’s energy independence, we [...]

Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind power producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now Texas faces [...]

HOUSTON – Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now [...]

Locomotive trains hauling coal to a slew of proposed new power plants in North Texas would emit enough pollution that local leaders may have to consider more drastic measures than already planned to meet federal ozone regulations, a state analysis concludes.
TXU Corp. and energy industry advocates insist that the coal-fired power plants planned to be [...]

While oil companies reaped gargantuan profits in 2006 amid high prices, U.S. demand for petroleum dipped for the second year in a row, a trade group said Friday.
Total petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, fell by roughly 1 percent to 20.6 million barrels per day, down from 20.8 million in 2005, which was below the [...]

The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says the state will produce a record 1.5 billion gallons of ethanol in 2006.
The trade group says Iowa ethanol plants will turn out 36% more corn-based fuel in 2006 than last year, when 1.1 billion gallons was made.
In producing the record amount of ethanol, Iowa’s ethanol plants processed over 550 [...]

Congress approved expanded offshore drilling in its final hours, giving energy companies access to oil and natural gas deposits in a vast area once off limits in the Gulf of Mexico.
President Bush, who is expected to promptly sign the legislation, said it “will help to reduce our dependence on imported sources of energy by increasing [...]