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• Slipping Chinese Economy Weighs On Climate Change Efforts

  Published 01 September 2019 | viewed 2,409 times

  The Chinese economy has come under pressure from the U.S.-China trade war which has made tackling climate change more difficult for Beijing, a senior official…

• Greener And More Reliable Power Grids Are On The Horizon

  Published 27 August 2019 | viewed 2,529 times

  Last month, the city council in Berkley, California, passed an ordinance requiring all new homes to be all-electric with no gas hook-ups beginning in January…

• Hong Kong Billionaire Loses Big On Canadian Energy Play

  Published 22 August 2019 | viewed 3,079 times

  While Aramco is signaling that the preparation for its long-awaited IPO is still underway, another big oil company may soon go private. Canada’s Husky Energy…

• Tesla Scrambles To Salvage Its Stumbling Solar Business

  Published 21 August 2019 | viewed 3,221 times

  Solar power is poised for a major boom. Solar panel technology is advancing by leaps and bounds and the industry’s infrastructure has never been so…

• Corn Industry Reeling After Shocking Ethanol Decision

  Published 18 August 2019 | viewed 4,199 times

  The Trump administration has tried to thread the needle between the corn ethanol and oil refining industries, as the two battle it out over federal…

• Solar Tech Breakthroughs Spark Surge In Adoption

  Published 15 August 2019 | viewed 3,685 times

  Time is running out. If the global community has any chance of meeting the climate change caps set by the Paris Agreement, fossil fuels will…

• Washington's $400 Billion Emissions Plan

  Published 11 August 2019 | viewed 1,881 times

  A controversial proposal by the Trump administration to freeze greenhouse gas emissions standards at 2020 levels for all cars made between 2021 and 2026 could…

• Currency War Weighs On Energy Sector

  Published 08 August 2019 | viewed 2,977 times

  Oil prices plunged on Wednesday as fears of economic recession rose after a wave of interest rate cuts from around the world. In rapid succession,…

• Tightening Nickel Supply Threatens Electric Vehicle Boom

  Published 06 August 2019 | viewed 9,171 times

  For Tesla and its chief competitors in the race for global domination of electric vehicle sales, it ain’t all about lithium ion. There are other…

• Mexico To Use Billion Dollar Oil Fund To Plug Budget Shortfall

  Published 04 August 2019 | viewed 4,990 times

  Mexico may use up nearly half of the money in its rainy-day oil fund to plug a shortfall in budget revenues, after that fund declined…

• Why Consumers Aren't Buying Electric Cars

  Published 01 August 2019 | viewed 3,807 times

  Enthusiasm among drivers is lacking about autonomous vehicles and even electric cars, J.D. Power’s latest Mobility Confidence Index has revealed. The results of the survey…

• Tesla's Chief Innovator Just Left

  Published 31 July 2019 | viewed 2,304 times

  Tesla, Inc., just lost one of the most respected innovators in the electric vehicle business, which brings up competitive implications for the future of what…

• Nuclear Fusion Could Come Too Late

  Published 29 July 2019 | viewed 3,563 times

  In order to keep globally rising temperatures from increasing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius this century, the international community will have to cut carbon emissions…

• India Moves To Create Its Own Gigafactory

  Published 28 July 2019 | viewed 1,769 times

  India may be planning its own EV battery gigafactory, LiveMint reports, citing an unnamed government official. According to the report, the facility would cost US$4…

• Money Managers Jump Back Into Oil Markets

  Published 24 July 2019 | viewed 2,155 times

  As market participants continue to weigh two decisively bearish factors for oil prices—slowing oil demand growth and soaring non-OPEC oil supply—two potentially bullish drivers have…

• Widespread Power Outages Hit New York City

  Published 22 July 2019 | viewed 1,577 times

  Some 30,000 Con Ed customers in New York City were left without power temporarily yesterday as the utility fought a string of outages caused by…

• It’s Time To Spend More On Clean Energy R&D

  Published 18 July 2019 | viewed 3,504 times

  Late last year, a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) looked into exactly how much it will take to meet the climate…

• EV Giants Duke It Out For Battery Dominance

  Published 16 July 2019 | viewed 3,485 times

  While researchers seek alternatives to lithium ion dominance in the battery space and European carmakers and governments pour billions into local battery production capacity to…

• Why Saudi Arabia Won't Give Up On The Aramco IPO

  Published 14 July 2019 | viewed 2,514 times

  Last week Saudi Arabia announced that it is to launch its first Euro-denominated bonds shortly, following the recent bond issue from Saudi Aramco. At around…

• Will The World's First Trillion Dollar Company Ever Bounce Back?

  Published 11 July 2019 | viewed 2,794 times

  China’s biggest oil and gas producer PetroChina—the first company in the world to reach a US$1-trillion valuation more than ten years ago—is now so cheap…