Oil
Environmentalists hail Obama curb on offshore drilling
December 2, 2010In a move called "wise and sensible, the Obama administration announced yesterday that it is withdrawing plans for expanding oil drilling in the Gulf and Atlantic Ocean.
Read more“Post-partisan” energy plan: who’s going to profit?
October 21, 2010The right-wing American Enterprise Institute and two centrist-liberal groups have announced a "post-partisan" clean energy plan - is this for real?
Read moreEnd of drilling ban spurs controversy
October 14, 2010The Obama administration said it is ending its deepwater drilling moratorium, environmentalists say the risks are too high, and the oil industry says the rules are too strict.
Read moreWorld Notes: China, Afghanistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, Germany, Cuba
September 30, 2010China-Russia ties, Afghanistan deaths, green industry in Caribbean, Nigeria's oil, lifetime jobs in Germany, U.S.-Cuba trade.
Read moreU.S. unions, Canadian energy sign pact on transnational pipeline
September 14, 2010Four U.S. construction unions signed a Project Labor Agreement on Sept. 14 with a large Canadian energy company, to build a big trans-national oil pipeline from the oil sands of Alberta to the refineries of Texas'...
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