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July 30, 2010
BP to 'Scaleback' Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup

Bob Dudley, the head of BP's Gulf of Mexico oil leak response team and incoming CEO, has declared the time has come for the company to "scaleback" its cleanup efforts.

July 30, 2010
Oil Infested Waters: Pictures of Kalamazoo River Oil Spill

Enebridge Energy Partners' oil pipe leak in Michigan has spilled an estimated one million gallons oil into one of the state's major waterways, the Kalamazoo River.

July 29, 2010
Enbridge Energy Partners Stock Plummets in Wake of Oil Spill

Shares in Enbridge Energy Partners (EEP), the oil affiliate of Enbridge Inc. have dropped precipitously today as news of the company's oil spill grew worse.

July 28, 2010
B.C.'s Carbon Tax May Be A Model System for the World

Although it is too early to call British Columbia's Carbon Tax a success, the early results appear positive.

The tax which levies a fee for carbon emissions produced from burning fuels like coal, oil, and gas has been productive economically and environmentally.

July 28, 2010
Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Cars Coming From Honda in 2012

A new era of transportation is fast approaching.  The evidence: almost every major car manufacturer has plans to develop hybrid and electric vehicles.

Honda (NYSE:HMC) is the latest to reveal its intention to introduce both a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and also electric vehicle into the U.S. market by 2012. 

July 28, 2010
Michigan Oil Spill: Cleanup Efforts Doubled as Oil Flows Deeper into Kalamazoo River

The oil and gas industry has taken yet another blow as a major oil pipeline in Michigan has leaked an estimated 819,000 gallons of crude oil into a creek in southwestern Michigan.

July 28, 2010
Rush for higher feed-in tarrifs sees big jump in German solar

The first half of this year saw a rush to install new solar panels in Germany that has resulted in a rise in capacity of more than 3 gigawatts for the Northern European country.

July 27, 2010
Draft US energy bill big on oil spill, small on clean energy

A draft version of the US Senate energy bill has been released this afternoon.

Officially called the Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability Act [pdf], the 24-page draft bill focuses a lot more on oil company accountability than it does on clean energy.

July 27, 2010
Solar power at a tipping point - now cheaper than nuclear

A new study from Duke University concludes that, “solar photovoltaics have joined the ranks of lower-cost alternatives to new nuclear plants.”