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Household winter heat costs to rise 15 percent
(Reuters)
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10/07/2008 02:15 PM
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 Reuters - Average household heating fuel costs this winter will be 15 percent higher than last year, with heating oil and natural gas users taking the biggest hit due to more expensive crude oil and colder weather than last winter, the government's top energy forecasting agency said Tuesday.
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Energy Department warns of higher heating costs
(AP)
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10/07/2008 01:39 PM
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AP - Although global oil prices have plummeted, the cost of heating your home this winter will be a lot more expensive, especially for households that depend on fuel oil, the Energy Department predicted Tuesday.
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Nigerian conflict a warning for Big Oil in Iraq
(AP)
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10/07/2008 11:21 AM
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 AP - Recurrent violence in oil-rich parts of Nigeria may provide a sobering lesson for oil companies hoping to work in Iraq — a place that is much more dangerous despite the fact that attacks are at their lowest level in more than four years.
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NJ: We'll become a world leader in wind power
(AP)
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10/07/2008 09:17 AM
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 AP - New Jersey is powering up an ambitious plan to become a world leader in the use of wind-generated energy.
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Greenpeace activists board coal ship off Spanish coast
(AFP)
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10/06/2008 06:23 PM
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 AFP - Greenpeace activists boarded a cargo ship carrying Colombian coal at a port in northern Spain on Monday in protest at Spain's reliance on the highly polluting energy source.
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U.S. needs environmental standards for biofuels
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10/02/2008 06:00 AM
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The U.S. lacks criteria to ensure that cellulosic ethanol production will not harm the environment, warn scientists writing in the journal Science. The researchers say that with proper safeguards, cellulosic ethanol can help the U.S. meet its energy needs sustainably.
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U.S. Congress passes legislation to boost solar, wind, and geothermal energy
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09/24/2008 06:00 AM
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Tuesday the U.S. Senate passed a bill that will extend tax credits on solar power installations through 2016. The House approved the measure Wednesday.
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Europe cuts biofuel targets to 4% in 2015, 6% in 2020
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09/12/2008 06:00 AM
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The E.U. voted to relax biofuels targets following widespread criticism of their social, economic, and environmental impacts. Thursday the European Parliament's Industry and Energy Committee said it would push a plan calling for a 5 percent share of renewables in transport fuel by 2015 and a 10 percent target by 2020, a reduction from the 20 percent target set forth in March 2007. The plan effectively cuts targets for biofuels produced from conventional feedstocks to four percent in 2015 and six percent in 2020.
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Falling palm oil price makes palm biodiesel viable, may offer target for NGOs
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09/10/2008 06:00 AM
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Plunging palm oil prices are increasing its attractiveness as a biofuel feedstock and thereby helping buoy demand for the oilseed, reports Reuters.
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Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation
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08/27/2008 06:00 AM
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The British government should end subsidies for biofuels and instead use the funds to slow destruction of rainforests and tropical peatlands argues a new report issued by a U.K.-based think tank. The study, titled "The Root of the Matter" and published by Policy Exchange, says that "avoided deforestation" would be a more cost-effective way to address climate change, since land use change generates more emissions than the entire global transport sector and offers ancillary benefits including important ecosystem services.
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