Published: January 9, 2012
Tags: coal, fuel
Developers of a coal-to-liquid fuel factory proposed for western North Dakota have been granted a fourth extension of state aid to study the project.
Published: June 12, 2010
Tags: Chippewa Falls, creek, fuel, oil
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Crews were working to contain a fuel spill at the Chippewa County Courthouse in Chippewa Falls that spread to a nearby creek. According to the fire department, a malfunction with a tank for the courthouse’s emergency generator caused the tank to overflow. Fire crews used a boom in the creek [...]
Published: April 13, 2010
Tags: bill, emissions, fuel, Mark Miller, renewable energy, Spencer Black
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democrats have revised a sweeping renewable energy bill, dropping requirements calling for new vehicle emission standards and low-carbon fuel. The bill’s authors, Rep. Spencer Black, a Madison Democrat, and Sen. Mark Miller, a Monona Democrat, left provisions allowing nuclear plants in the bill. They added provisions requiring that by 2025 [...]
Published: February 17, 2010
Tags: fuel, nuclear energy, Obama
Comments: 2
By BEN FELLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Prodding Republicans, President Barack Obama on Tuesday championed nuclear energy expansion as the latest way that feuding parties can move beyond the “broken politics” of Washington that have imperiled his agenda and soured voters. His call came as he dispatched Vice President Joe Biden and Cabinet [...]
By MARK WILLIAMS AP Energy Writer Just seven days into the new year, pump prices have surged past 2009 highs as winter storms and a flood of speculative money send oil prices higher. With the average gallon of gas is now a shade under $2.71, a typical motorist using 50 gallons of fuel a month [...]
By JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writer LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and Oakland residents and businesses have been discarding in the Altamont landfill since 1980. Since [...]
By CHRIS KAHN AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oil started the new year Monday trading above $81 a barrel, almost double what it fetched at the beginning of 2009 even though the U.S. is using much less. Prices, which have been propped up by a weak dollar, will get even more support as [...]
By MARK WILLIAMS AP Energy Writer The world’s biggest oil producers on Tuesday opted to leave production volumes unchanged, a decision that could mean short-term stability for energy prices after a volatile year. OPEC negotiations in Africa can have a direct impact on consumers and what they must pay to heat their homes or fill [...]
By JOAN LOWY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifteen airlines say they’ve signed memorandums of understandings that could lead to the purchase of hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel made from either coal or camolina, a weed that’s a cousin to canola. The agreements were announced Tuesday by the Air Transport Association. United [...]
HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) — One vehicle at a time, Michigan Technological University’s fleet is turning green. The fleet manager at the Upper Peninsula school just replaced four sport utility vehicles used by admissions representatives with Ford Escapes. The new hybrids get 34 miles per gallon, compared with the 23 mpg the SUV’s got. “Our goal [...]
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