The U.S. Senate Tuesday rejected an attempt to expand offshore oil and gas drilling to allow the states to generate revenue.
The Republican-backed proposal would have allowed states to drill off their coasts and share revenues with the federal government, the (Newport News, Va.) Daily Press reported.
The amendment would have amended a federal ban prohibiting offshore [...]
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is urging leaders of a U.S. Senate committee to reject new legislation that could bring offshore oil and natural gas drilling up to 45 miles from Florida’s beaches.
The bill would cast aside a delicate compromise that Congress passed last year to open new Gulf of Mexico waters off Florida to drilling [...]
More than four years after the United States accused North Korea of a covert uranium enrichment program — triggering collapse of a nuclear deal with Pyongyang — the program has receded as an issue and some experts say Washington may have overstated or misread the intelligence.
U.S. officials no longer make a major public issue of [...]
Growing demand for ethanol has boosted prices for the corn-based fuel additive, worrying ethanol supporters just as they’re making inroads getting motorists interested in the alternative fuel.
Greg Boesch, who owns Fred’s Mini Mart in Shadeland, said when he began selling E85, it was between 30 cents and 40 cents a gallon cheaper than gasoline.
Now, he’s [...]
Hours before adjourning for the year, the U.S. Congress on Saturday sent President George W. Bush legislation that would open 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling and redistribute billions of dollars in royalties to four Gulf states.
The drilling measure was wrapped into a broad tax and trade [...]
Growing demand for ethanol has boosted prices for the corn-based fuel additive, worrying ethanol supporters just as they’re making inroads getting motorists interested in the alternative fuel.
Greg Boesch, who owns Fred’s Mini Mart in Shadeland, said when he began selling E85, it was between 30 cents and 40 cents a gallon cheaper than gasoline.
Now, he’s [...]
Billionaire Peter Branson, the British business mogul who owns Virgin Atlantic Airways, says he’s going to burn cellulosic ethanol in his 100-plane fleet within the next five or six years.
Made from organic waste generated by farming and forestry, cellulosic ethanol is made from cellulose, rather than sugars and starches as is normal ethanol. In a [...]
A bill to open waters in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida to oil and natural gas drilling easily cleared a procedural hurdle on Wednesday that paves the way for the U.S. Senate to vote on the measure in coming days.
But Senate Republican leaders said they would oppose a push by Democrats to widen debate [...]
