Full Coverage: Energy

30.11.2007

26.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 26 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration is pushing for plans to reuse spent nuclear fuel in power reactors across the United States, but key senators and nuclear analysts have raised economic and security concerns about reusing the weapons-grade fuel.

16.11.2007 WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (OneWorld) - China is well on its way to acquiring fully 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2020, while the United States is dragging its feet on transitioning away from fossil fuels, according to a pair of reports released here this week.

16.11.2007 A coalition of businesses and non-profit groups has called on the U.S. Congress to support renewable energy tax incentives, higher vehicle fuel efficiency standards, and an increase in the share of U.S. energy supplied by renewable technologies.
From: Sustainable Energy Network

15.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - A new study by an independent think tank names and shames the power companies responsible for high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States and abroad.

14.11.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - Environmentalists are calling for an international ban on bunker fuel, a particularly noxious petroleum product used to power most ocean-going cargo ships, including those responsible for massive spills this week in the Black Sea and San Francisco Bay.

12.11.2007 Social activist and Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey favours wind power to nuclear. He says that India has a potential to generate 45,000 MW from winds and that too with much lesser costs.

11.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 11 (OneWorld) - Major U.S. companies are adding to the impending threat of global warming as they drive the production of palm oil in Indonesia's tropical forests, says a new study by an international environmental organization.

08.11.2007 As it is, shining India does not shine for 412 million people. The latest World Energy Outlook brought out by International Energy Agency predicts that even by 2030, some 60 million Indians will remain engulfed in darkness.

07.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6 (IPS) - A long-held basic human right, the right to adequate food for the world's 854 million hungry people, is being threatened once again -- this time by the conversion of wheat, sugar, palm oil and maize into agricultural fuel.