Fossil fuels

15 May 2007 -- Leaders of nearly 40 of the world's largest cities are gathering in New York to exchange ideas on combating global warming. VOA correspondent Peter Heinlein reports former U.S. President Bill Clinton and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are co-hosting the C-40 Climate Change Conference.

The New York gathering is the second of its kind. The first, in London two years ago, drew representatives of 18 large cities.    » read more »

May 11, 2007, Juneau, Alaska – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today signed four pieces of legislation that authorizes a supplemental budget, extends the sunset date of the Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives, transfers land owned by the Alaska Railroad Corporation, and opposes a proposed fuel tax increase.    » read more »

While fossil fuels would continue to satisfy the lion’s share of the world’s growing energy needs in the coming decades, new and diverse energy sources must be explored in order to put the world, and developing countries in particular, on a greener path to economic growth, the Commission on Sustainable Development was told today, as it continued the high-level segment of its fifteenth session.    » read more »

Chasing Records

Yesterday, Barry Bonds hit another home run and now stands just 10 home runs shy of Hank Aaron’s career home run mark of 755. With Barry Bonds chasing this revered record in Major League Baseball, he makes news every time he hits another home run, even if he does so in a loss, as was the case yesterday. One of the most visible records in gasoline markets is the U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline.    » read more »

Novel Computer Modeling Tools Make Recovery Accessible to Small Producers

May 9, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC - A joint venture in technology development between researchers at Texas A&M University and the Department of Energy has produced a new computer tool that will increase recovery of up to 218 billion barrels of by-passed oil remaining in mature domestic fields. The nation's current proven reserve is 21 billion barrels.    » read more »

07 May 2007 -- Specialists from the International Energy Agency and Oxford University Monday told a Washington forum that despite European Union efforts to diversify sources, Russia's Gazprom is likely to retain its dominant position in supplying gas to Western Europe. VOA's Barry Wood reports.

Nicholas Van Agt from the Paris-based IEA says Gazprom is opposed to a European Union backed plan to build a gas pipeline across the Caspian Sea that would bring Turkman and Kazakh gas to Turkey and Western Europe.    » read more »

May 2, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has rejected all offers received from the second solicitation issued this spring that sought to purchase up to four million barrels of crude oil for the United States’ crude oil reserve. Both solicitations resulted in no awards because the Department determined that the bids were too high and not a reasonable value for taxpayers.    » read more »

Statement by Larry Schweiger, President of National Wildlife Federation, On Release of IPCC Global Warming Solutions Report

Washington, DC (May 4) – “The world’s scientific experts are giving us all the information we need. This latest report provides unmistakable clarity that we must act now, and that solutions are within reach to avoid the worst effects of global warming.    » read more »