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In a direct challenge to President Bush, Congress voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve.
Senate Democrats on Wednesday called for a temporary windfall profits tax on oil companies and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package. The proposal also would impose federal penalties on energy price gouging and calls for stopping oil deliveries into the government's emergency reserve.
President Bush, responding to recent economic reports, said on Friday that "the economy is not as robust as any of us would like it."
Curt Mann's neighbors are livid, accusing him of erecting an ugly wind turbine among their historic homes for no other reason than to show off his environmental "bling."
The Democratic presidential candidates are criss-crossing Pennsylvania this week, dropping in at gas stations and truck stops to convince voters they've got the best plan to tackle soaring gas prices and Big Oil profits.
Lawmakers grilled executives from the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies Tuesday, criticizing them for taking tax subsidies and not investing in renewable resources amid record prices for oil and gasoline.
Under the backdrop of record gas prices and record profits, Congress is set to grill executives Tuesday from the world's five biggest publicly traded oil companies.
True or False: China, India and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol
Can the traditional power industry meet skyrocketing energy demand and reduce pollution by embracing green energy?
The U.S. presidential race is under way, and environmental issues are taking a more prominent place in the candidates' campaigns than in the past. Along with the economy and the war in Iraq, climate change has become an integral part of each candidate's platform, a remarkable evolution from earlier U.S. presidential campaigns as recent as four years ago.
In a direct challenge to President Bush, Congress voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve.
Senate Democrats on Wednesday called for a temporary windfall profits tax on oil companies and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package. The proposal also would impose federal penalties on energy price gouging and calls for stopping oil deliveries into the government's emergency reserve.
President Bush, responding to recent economic reports, said on Friday that "the economy is not as robust as any of us would like it."
Curt Mann's neighbors are livid, accusing him of erecting an ugly wind turbine among their historic homes for no other reason than to show off his environmental "bling."
The Democratic presidential candidates are criss-crossing Pennsylvania this week, dropping in at gas stations and truck stops to convince voters they've got the best plan to tackle soaring gas prices and Big Oil profits.
Lawmakers grilled executives from the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies Tuesday, criticizing them for taking tax subsidies and not investing in renewable resources amid record prices for oil and gasoline.
Under the backdrop of record gas prices and record profits, Congress is set to grill executives Tuesday from the world's five biggest publicly traded oil companies.
True or False: China, India and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol
Can the traditional power industry meet skyrocketing energy demand and reduce pollution by embracing green energy?
The U.S. presidential race is under way, and environmental issues are taking a more prominent place in the candidates' campaigns than in the past. Along with the economy and the war in Iraq, climate change has become an integral part of each candidate's platform, a remarkable evolution from earlier U.S. presidential campaigns as recent as four years ago.
A House committee chairman on Thursday denounced the Bush administration's planned sale of oil drilling rights in a prime polar bear habitat in Alaska, saying its impact on the bear population is unknown.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) and other government agencies are currently at work fleshing out plans for the new small-business training and grant programs mandated by the sweeping, years-in-the-making energy bill signed into law last month by President Bush.
Triple digits will further encourage investors to get deeper into alternative energy and cleaner fuels. But governments still have to encourage the transition
Andy Karsner was in an ebullient mood the other day, and for good reason. Congress had just approved an energy bill, which, despite serious flaws, puts the country on a path that will promote renewable energy, reduce our dependence on oil, dramatically increase energy efficiency and curb the growth in greenhouse gas emissions.
The nation's three nuclear weapons laboratories have had almost 60 serious accidents or near misses in the past seven years, according to a report released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office.
More than a third of American consumers said they will spend less this holiday season and cited rising energy costs as the main reason, according to a report released Monday.
Record the CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: We Were Warned: Out of Gas when it airs commercial-free on Monday, August 13, 2007, from approximately 4:10 - 5:00 a.m. ET on CNN. (A short feature begins at 4:00 a.m. and precedes the program.)
Enriched by high oil prices, Chevron Corp. will spend up to $15 billion buying back its own stock - a commitment that pleased shareholders and rankled critics clamoring for bigger investments in projects that might help lower energy costs.
A 22-foot-long, neon-green banner hangs from the high-ceilinged lobby of the San Francisco headquarters of Pacific Gas & Electric, California's largest utility. "GREEN IS resisting the urge to drive to yoga," it declares. "GREEN IS saying no thanks to the daily disposable coffee cup."
Dalat Nuclear Research Institute stands on a mountaintop in Vietnam's southern highlands. The nuclear reactor is not what most Vietnamese think of when they think of Dalat. The town, nestled in pine woods, is Vietnam's favorite honeymoon spot.
Surf this: The potential market for wave energy -- electricity generated by offshore turbines -- is worth a staggering $1 trillion worldwide, according to the World Energy Council, a nonprofit research organization.
QUESTION: Hi, my name is Shawn and I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan. There is a scientific consensus for man-caused climate change, and I've heard each of you talk in previous debates about alternative energy sources like solar or wind, but I have not heard any of you speak your opinion on nuclear power. I believe that nuclear power is safer, cleaner, and provides a quicker avenue to energy independence than other alternatives.
The U.S. House Saturday passed a Democratic rewrite of U.S. energy policy that strips $16 billion in tax incentives away from Big Oil and puts it toward renewable energy sources like wind and solar power.
Through a series of creative financing proposals that includes guaranteed loans, grants and aggressive research, the 2007 Farm Bill now before Congress provides seed money for the growth of alternative fuel production in the United States.
With fuel prices on the rise, concern over global warming growing and the 2008 presidential campaign heating up, CNN.com asked users if they thought the country was poised for major changes in energy and environmental policies. Here is a selection of responses, some of which have been edited for clarity.
In late June, the U.S. Senate passed an energy bill that would raise gas mileage standards for the first time in 20 years and fund research on alternative energy sources.
The Senate, working on a massive energy bill, approved a compromise Thursday that would raise vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, for the first time in 30 years, to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.
With gas prices near record highs and global warming making more headlines than ever, the Senate is getting close to a vote on one of the most ambitious pieces of energy legislation this country has seen in decades.
Rex Tillerson is way out of line, and he knows it. "They want us to join the parade," he says, referring to assorted environmentalists, scientists, politicians, investors and others who've been lam...
OK, so right away the headline puts a negative spin on "liquid coal" technology.
I outfitted my consulting firm with the latest tools to conserve energy and generate clean power.
Coming soon to a test tube near you: America's new war.
Many have wondered if and when renewable energy will be cost-effective.
Corporate America is doing backflips over renewable energy.
Flush with what his administration called a "positive reaction" to his State of the Union address, President Bush took his message on the road Wednesday and explained in detail his plan to reduce gasoline consumption and greenhouse gases in the United States.
Some of America's largest corporations pledged Monday to support green power, responding to a challenge posed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
1) After two years of double-digit hikes, the price of heating fuels are expected to moderate this year. One energy source, in fact, may even fall in price. Which one?
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With energy costs rising and poised to stay stratospheric, small companies are finding innovative ways -- beyond solar panels and ski hats -- to cut their electricity bills.
The summer heat has left Americans cranking up their air conditioners, leaving power companies scrambling to keep up with the surging demand for electricity.
Who wouldn't want to help the environment while increasing the value of their business and lowering their expenses?
Cellulosic ethanol, the biofuel that differs from corn-based ethanol in that it can be made from pretty much any organic matter, has made an impression among people who matter.
Top executives from the nation's Big Three automakers will meet with President Bush next month to discuss energy and pension issues, according to officials with the automakers familiar with the plans.
As the debate over what to do about high gas prices continued on Capitol Hill, Democrats on Wednesday called for a new energy bill and federal legislation to punish price gougers.
There's a belief in journalism that when you make both sides mad, you must have done something right. So I guess I can take some solace in being cursed as both a right-wing oil-company shill and a tax-and-spend liberal.
It may be one of the most dangerous phrases in the English language. It certainly is one of the most expensive.
President Bush told workers at a renewable energy lab Tuesday that the government had sent "mixed signals" over the future of its federal funding.
Presidents going back to Richard Nixon have been talking about energy independence. It's one of those vote-getting platforms that no one could possibly be against -- like world peace, mom and apple pie. It gives us the illusion of control over our energy destiny, which we don't have, at least in a fossil-fuel based economy.
Oil drilling companies are upset that the Bush administration has proposed killing funding for oil and natural gas exploration research and development programs at the Department of Energy, an industry lobbyist said Monday.
President Bush called in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night for the United States to break its "addiction" to Middle Eastern oil using technological solutions.
On the heels of a politically tough year, President Bush used his State of the Union speech Tuesday to propose weaning the United States from its "addiction" to imported oil and studying how the baby boom generation may strain federal entitlements.
President Bush -- former oil man, son of an oil man, coached by the former chief executive of Halliburton -- held forth Tuesday night on why America needs to be doing a better job of promoting renewable fuels.
You probably don't know it, but the answer to America's gasoline addiction could be under the hood of your car. More than five million Tauruses, Explorers, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles are already equipped with engines that can run on an energy source that costs less than gasoline, produces almost none of the emissions that cause global warming, and comes from the Midwest, not the Middle East.
Once the stomping ground of Genghis Khan, the heart of rural Inner Mongolia is an unlikely center of innovation.
The Department of Energy unveiled Monday a national campaign urging consumers to use energy more efficiently.
Remember when gas spiked to $3-plus a gallon after Hurricane Katrina? By this time next week, that could seem like the good old days.
Two major refineries reported damage from Hurricane Rita Saturday, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry said overall damage to oil facilities appeared to be modest.
Ford Motor Co. CEO Bill Ford Jr. is asking the White House to convene a summit to discuss the nation's energy issues and the auto industry's role in finding a solution.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fiercely defended his country's nuclear program and excoriated the U.S. government -- as well as its supporters -- in a speech Saturday to the United Nations General Assembly.
Oil futures lost more than a dollar Thursday after a morning report showed a smaller-than-expected drop in petroleum stockpiles following major disruptions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina but rebounded to end the session higher.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Friday that an international oil agency will make 60 million barrels of oil and gasoline available to the marketplace.
Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman announced Thursday that the Department of Energy has approved two requests for a loan of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
People who have gotten used to locking in prices in the summer for home-heating fuel will have to devise other saving strategies this year.
EVERY ADMINISTRATION SINCE Richard Nixon's has railed against foreign oil--at least when prices are high. President Bush recently called our dependence on the stuff a "foreign tax on the American d...
As the temperature rises and sweat trickles down your back, it's nice to think about escaping the blaring rays of sun by slipping into an air-conditioned room.
Sixteen illegal immigrants last year worked on construction at one of the most sensitive weapons sites in the country, according to a report issued Monday by the Department of Energy's inspector general.
The Senate, fresh from a compromise on judicial nominees, is set to test whether that same bipartisan spirit will extend to a broad energy bill, slated to go to the Senate Tuesday for debate.
Comparing U.S. dependence on overseas oil to a "foreign tax on the American people," President Bush on Wednesday proposed a series of energy initiatives, including more oil refineries and nuclear plants, to combat the problem.
Hot air is now for sale.
The end of cheap oil may mean more than just higher gas prices for Americans. It may mean the end of the oil age as we know it.
Every day brings another culprit. On Aug. 5 it was word that crude exports from Russia's massive Yukos Oil might be in jeopardy, as authorities there said they were once again freezing the company'...
We'll be counting how many cheers President Bush receives this morning when he speaks to the Unity 2004 convention of minority journalists here.
With crude oil trading above $41 a barrel, the world's biggest energy consumers are looking to cooperate more in their response to market pressures.
The European Union and Russia have signed an agreement confirming EU backing for Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization.
When Chinese troops opened fire on Soviet counterparts at a border checkpoint in 1969, the shots reverberated across the oilfields of Daqing. For much of the decade, a cadre of Chinese geologists a...
Kuwait's parliament will investigate whether the government misused public funds when it signed a contract with Halliburton Corporation to supply fuel to U.S. troops in Iraq.
Kuwait's parliament agreed Wednesday to investigate whether the government misused public funds when it signed a contract with Halliburton Corp. to supply fuel to U.S. troops in Iraq.
An exercise to test preparedness against a terrorist attack at a nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was compromised last summer when guards got a peek at the plans, according to a report by the Department of Energy's inspector general.
Workers at a nuclear weapons plant in Texas improperly used tape to secure broken pieces of a highly explosive component, which could have caused a "violent reaction," federal investigators report.
To appreciate America's energy predicament in the post-Sept. 11 world, you don't have to visit the oil fields of Texas and Alaska or journey to East-of-Suez OPEC strongholds like Kuwait and Saudi A...
Who has the toughest job in President Bush's cabinet? These days I'd say it's Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham.
John Hall isn't taking any chances. Though his Chicago brewery, Goose Island, is far from California's ongoing energy crisis, he's taking measures to protect his company from possible brownouts thi...
The only thing worse than the prospect of the White House and Congress attempting to right the wrongs of the American economy is the spectacle of them trying to do it in a hurry. Right now they're ...
EVER SINCE crude was discovered at Titusville, Pennsylvania, 134 years ago, U.S. oil producers have been a source and symbol of American industrial prowess. Five of the great Seven Sisters were Ame...
BLACK SEAS. Black rain. Black death. The Persian Gulf is now the inferno that the oil industry has speculated about -- and dreaded -- for decades. More than 500 of the best oil wells on earth are b...
Long before Saddam Hussein underscored the need for the U.S. to be less dependent on Middle East oil, President Bush directed the Department of Energy to put together the thoughts of industrial lea...
THE CONFRONTATION in the Persian Gulf conjures a host of horrible prospects: Shuttered factories. Gasoline lines. Blood in the sand. It might not come to that, of course. Iraq could yet withdraw fr...
ON A BLISTERING July morning in the year 2010, Kyle O. Watt of Kansas City flips on the television news and sits down to breakfast with Mrs. Watt and the two little Watts. As they gulp cold orange ...
A YEAR OF Texas-size swings in the price of crude has turned the oil patch into the trenches. Like the survivors of Verdun after the shelling stopped, the U.S. petroleum industry is spooked. True, ...
WITH GASOLINE PRICES averaging well below $1 a gallon, tanking up at the pumps leaves many an American motorist with a sense of well-being he hasn't felt in years. Nevertheless, a lot of people wor...
The gradual deregulation of natural gas prices has not yet brought the benefits of free-market economics to gas customers. Even though gas is in surplus and demand is low, consumers are paying arti...
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