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HOUSTON — Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland said he doesn't expect the Keystone XL pipeline to gain U.S. approval this year and suggested that regulators will need to “fix” requirements governing the blending of biofuels into gasoline. Environmentalists are pressing hard for the Obama administration to deny a permit, arguing that oils sands produce a dirty form of crude and that pipeline spills would

The letter also signed by Representatives Mark Amodei (R-NV), Steven Pearce (R-NM), Joe Heck (R-NV), Jared Huffman (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA) and Juan Vargas (D-CA), asks Obama to not repeal the sharing of geothermal royalty payments with ...

According to keepers, a wind turbine near the Altamont Pass severed a portion of Solomon's left wing in 2000, leaving him unable to fly. (Full-size photo). CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. – The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found

View full sizeA wind turbine farm owned by PacifiCorp stands near Glenrock, Wyo. Wind farms ... The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Obama administration has spent about $26.32 billion on alternative energy initiatives, but the number of jobs created as a result has been a mere drop in the bucket at a huge cost to taxpayers, according to the Institute for Energy Research. Specifically, the White ... The Daily Caller reported last year that estimates from the U

The death of birds and bats is a real cost of wind power. The wind farms ought to be assessed fines for killing birds so that the true cost of wind power is reflected in the marketplace. Assessing a fine is an efficient way of getting wind farms to pay their full cost ...

A wind turbine farm owned by PacifiCorp stands near Glenrock, Wyo., Monday, May 6, 2013. Associated Press ... (AP) — The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found

More than 83,000 hunting birds are killed by windfarms each year but no wind energy company has been finedThe Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a windfarm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found

President Obama at an Iowa wind farm during last year's campaign. MidAmerican, controlled by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company, is responsible for a big portion of all this wind power, owning and operating 2,285 MW of capacity in the state.

"While this is a setback, we are hopeful that the market for biodiesel will improve in the coming months, as a result of the Obama Administration's decision to increase the federal Renewable Fuels Standard -- 2 biomass-based diesel requirements from 1 billion ...

Prasad estimates there are around 25 fuel cell buses in the United States, but the number is expected to grow with President Barack Obama's plan to form an Energy Security Trust. This Trust would benefit hydrogen fuel cell studies, and would allocate a ...

As part of the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department today recognized the nation's first commercial enhanced geothermal system (EGS) project to supply electricity to the grid. Based in Churchill County, Nevada, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. environment regulator on Monday said the State Department must take a harder look at climate and other impacts of the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil sands pipeline before the Obama administration issues a final decision on the project.