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As $4 Gas Approaches, Americans Buy Less
KickingTiresThe average price for a gallon of gas was up yet again over the weekend and is 11 cents higher than last week, settling at $3.77 nationally. At that rate we'll see $4 gas by early May, but drivers have......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Petroleum Industry, Market and Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange
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Shell Talks Gas Mileage and Latest Motor Oils
KickingTiresMotor oil is moving ahead to GF-5. Why should you care? Well, it went on sale beginning Oct. 1, it protects engine and emissions components incrementally better than GF-4, and it???s responsible for roughly 0.2 percent better overall fuel economy,......Tags: Vehicles, Automotive Equipment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gasoline Industry, AOL LLC
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Obama decision on polar bear status closely watched
GreenspaceA long-simmering dispute about government protection of the polar bear has drawn in leading environmental law groups and the country’s most powerful business organizations. Both sides are concerned about the effect that a decision on the bear's status... -
Price Of Gas Hits Epic Proportions In NY Area
Senior WriterGasoline prices have been rising for months and are within striking distance of their 2008 all-time high of $4.11 a gallon. But while oil prices are above $100 a barrel, they're still 24% below their 2008 all-time high. So why is gasoline so expensive,...Tags: Commodity Markets, Petroleum Industry, Texas, Energy Saving, Automotive Equipment
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Thomas J. Ahrens dies at 74; Caltech geophysicist
Thomas J. Ahrens, a Caltech geophysicist who pioneered the academic use of shock waves to study minerals under high temperatures and pressures such as those found at the center of the Earth, died Nov. 24 at his home in Pasadena. He was 74. The cause of...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Science and Technology, Los Angeles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California)
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Salazar: Scandal-ridden program closed
The Swampby Jim Tankersley The Interior Department is ending a controversial oil-and-gas royalty program that was the centerpiece of a drug and sex scandal in the federal Minerals Management Service, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this morning. Testifying...Tags: Energy Resources, Petroleum Industry, Ken Salazar, Politics, U.S. Department of the Interior
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EPA Proposes New Smog Standard
KickingTiresThe Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed a stricter standard for pollutants that cause smog, a rule that would affect utilities, manufacturers, oil refiners and automakers. The new standard, if approved, would impose moderate to large...Tags: Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Environmental Pollution, Heart Attack
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Why the Senate climate bill is on life support
GreenspaceMonday was to be a launch party for supporters of a congressional push to limit greenhouse gas emissions and boost domestic energy production. Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) were to roll out their...... -
A climate bill by any other name...
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Ct.) officially rolled out their stab at an energy and climate bill on Wednesday, and the early reception was largely what they'd hoped for: Most environmental groups embraced the plan;.......Tags: John Kerry, White House, Global Change, Henry Waxman, Weather
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U.S. tax breaks favor oil industry
The SwampResidents of Grand Isle, La. express their frustration with BP Monday. (EPA/Bevil Knapp) by Kim Geiger and Tom Hamburger It was close to 2 a.m. when Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and others on a House-Senate conference committee saw......Tags: Bob Menendez, Bill Nelson, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Nick J. Rahall II, Government
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Big oil: oversight not the problem
The Swampby Jim Tankersley and Jennifer Martinez Oil and gas companies have told the Obama administration that environmental regulations for deep-water drilling rigs do not immediately need to be toughened because the Deepwater Horizon explosion was an...Tags: BP Plc, Energy Resources, Petroleum Industry, White House, Environmental Politics
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Gulf oil spill: Congress moves oil legislation
GreenspaceFar-reaching legislation that would impose new environmental safeguards on offshore drilling, repeal oil industry-friendly provisions of the 2005 Energy Policy Act and hit producers with a new tax to fund conservation programs gained ground in Congress on...
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