NEW YORK - Energy stocks were most higher Monday, as investors weighed the potential burden of an Environmental Protection Agency finding that declares greenhouse gases a hazard to human health and advances the push for regulation. The endangerment
The energy ministers of nine European Union nations on Monday signed a deal to develop a massive offshore wind power grid in the North Sea and Irish Sea, as UN climate talks got underway in Copenhagen. The text was signed on the margins of an EU ene
TOLEDO, Ohio - The U.S. Energy Department says it will spend close to $600 million to help build renewable energy plants that will turn wood chips, cornstalks and algae into fuel. The government will team up with private companies to create 19 biore
Taiwan plans to boost its use of solar panels by a factor of 200 over the next decade and a half in an effort to increase clean energy, a ranking official said Friday. Solar panels across the island currently have a capacity of five megawatts, enoug
ROME - The leaders of Russia and Italy announced Thursday support for the US strategy against extremists in Afghanistan during a summit which also saw key gas and aviation accords signed between the two nations. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev sa
Several oil and natural gas companies in the US and Europe boosted their chief executives’ remuneration last year, in spite of often missing performance targets or other measures of investor value, data collected by the Financial Times show.The most
PORT OF SPAIN - Canada and India concluded negotiations Saturday on a nuclear cooperation agreement on the sidelines of the Commonwealth summit in Trinidad. Increased collaboration with India's civilian nuclear energy market will allow Canadian co
BEIJING - China announced plans Thursday to sharply boost its energy efficiency by slowing the growth of carbon emissions as part of its contribution to the fight against global warming. The State Council announcement ahead of next month's Copenhage
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