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Withou doubt, it has been a difficult spring and summer for the oil industry.  Three major oil spills, each of which is the largest their affected area has ever endured.  The Kalamazoo River in Michigan is the latest victim, with an estimated 1 million gallons floating withi

The Chinese government has officially announced that the oil leak in Dalian has been cleaned up.  This statement may be a little premature as crews continue to work on restoring the beaches in the

In the shadow of the massive BP Gulf of Mexico disaster, there is another similar - albeit smaller in scale - disaster unfolding on the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.

Here's the CNN report:

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently presented a new study: Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Turkey 2009 Review [pdf].

Last week, New York City unveiled its first of 100 ChargePoint® Network EV Charging Stations as part of the federally funded ChargePoint America program.

A multidisciplinary team of top scientists will be given $122 million over five years to establish the Energy Innovation Hub -- a centralized means to research and develop energy directly from the sun.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to introduce and energy bill today that up until last week contained measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - like a cap-and-trade mechanism and a Renewable Energy Standard.

A paper on rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity and market penetration in the U.S., written by three National Renewable Energy Laboratory colleagues (Easan Drury, Paul Denholm and Robert Margolis), shows that fully 1 gigawatt (GW) of the world’s 15 gigawatts of solar PV was installed in the U.S. alone by December of 2009.

Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT), a Pennington, N.J.-based pioneer of wave-energy technology for autonomous power generation and the utility market, has been making moves in the emerging wave energy market.

Developers and officials have broken ground on the Kahuku Wind Project, a new 30-megawatt on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.