Energy
Polluting Michigan Power Plants to Close December 2022
DETROIT, Michigan, May 27, 2020 (ENS) – DTE Energy has agreed to a date certain to close three polluting coal-fired power plans and the company will invest $7.5 [...]
Energy
Energy
Oxford University Will End Fossil Fuel Investments
OXFORD, England, May 12, 2020 (ENS) – Oxford University has announced its new plan to divest formally from the fossil fuel industry. The oldest university in the English-speaking [...]
Energy
Pandemic Shock to Energy Industry Greatest in 70 Years
PARIS, France, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the global economy, forcing large parts of the world into confinement and “creating the [...]
Energy
Canada Gas Pipeline Protests Yield Rail Shutdown, Arrests
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, February 14, 2020 (ENS) – Forty indigenous land and water protectors and non-indigenous activists were arrested in British Columbia and across Canada on Monday, [...]
Energy
Rare Earth Elements Focus of U.S.-Australia Agreement
WASHINGTON, DC, November 18, 2019 (ENS) – Officials from the United States and Australia today signed a memorandum of understanding pledging cooperation to secure a steady supply of [...]
Energy
Science in Action: Arctic Residents Embrace Renewables
HANOVER, New Hampshire, November 12, 2019 (ENS) – Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has accepted an invitation to partner with Qaanaaq, an Arctic hunting and fishing [...]
Energy
Utilities Ask Court to Reinstate Obama’s Clean Power Plan
NEW YORK, New York, September 16, 2019 (ENS) – A coalition of public and private electric utilities have filed a petition in the District of Columbia Circuit Court [...]
Energy
Comparing America’s Most Energy-Efficient Cities
WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2019 (ENS) – Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC top the latest energy-efficiency scorecard from the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient [...]
Energy
Trudeau Greenlights Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, June 18, 2019 (ENS) – Canada’s federal cabinet has approved the twinning of the existing Trans Mountain pipeline that will carry diluted bitumen from the [...]
Energy
Governments Cue Hydrogen for Global Clean Energy Role
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, June 1, 2019 (ENS) – Hydrogen is on the move. At the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting Friday in Vancouver, governments announced a new international [...]
Energy
Indigenous Pipeline Protest Disrupts Trudeau Fundraiser
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, May 22, 2019 (ENS) – An Indigenous leader demanding that cancellation of the Trans Mountain pipeline interrupted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his [...]
Energy
Oregon Governor Signs Offshore Drilling Ban into Law
SALEM, Oregon, March 27, 2019 (ENS) – Oregon Governor Kate Brown, a Democrat, today signed a bill into law that creates a new line of defense against offshore [...]
Energy
ExxonMobil Fined $616,000 for Fire That Killed Two
WASHINGTON, DC, March 6, 2019 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency have settled with ExxonMobil Oil Corporation to resolve federal Clean Air [...]
Energy
EU Invests €10 Billion in Lowering Carbon Dioxide
BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 27, 2019 (ENS) – The European Commission Tuesday introduced The Innovation Fund, an investment program worth over €10 billion for low-carbon technologies in energy intensive [...]
Business
1,000+ Institutions Divest From Fossil Fuels
KATOWICE, Poland, December 13, 2018 (ENS) – Over 1,000 institutions with managed investments worth US$$8 trillion have committed to divest from fossil fuel companies because they are driving [...]
Energy
Federal Judge Bans Fracking Off California Coast
LOS ANGELES, California, November 12, 2018 (ENS) – Conservation and Native American groups have won their fracking lawsuit against the Trump administration. A federal court has ordered the [...]
Energy
Judge Blocks Trump’s Approval of Keystone XL Pipeline
GREAT FALLS, Montana, November 9, 2018 (ENS) – A federal judge in Montana Thursday overturned the Trump Administration’s approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline and issued an injunction [...]
Energy
Trump Plans to Export Fossil Fuels From Military Bases
WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2018 (ENS) – Blurring the line between the public and private sectors, the Trump administration is pondering the use of West Coast military bases [...]
Energy
European Clean Energy Innovators to Get €100 Million
BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 19, 2018 (ENS) – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates knows that €100 million can fund a lot of climate-friendly, clean energy research by European innovators, so [...]
Energy
Trump Removes Oil Train Safety Brake Requirement
WASHINGTON, DC, September 25, 2018 (ENS) – Cost won out over safety, as the Trump administration Monday repealed an oil train regulation regarding the type of brakes the [...]