Second of three stories about airline biofuels. Click here for the first part. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The future of aviation fuels is cooking in a bland office park…
BIOFUELS: Energy companies buckle up in hope of green aviation takeoff
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CLIMATE: Fight over power plants has parallels to fuel-economy push in Obama's first term
When he entered the Oval Office four years ago, President Obama gave environmentalists something they had long sought: a presidential commitment to much stronger fuel economy standards. The same advocates…
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POLITICS: Salazar still a hot commodity -- if he's interested
Fellow Colorado Democrats are welcoming Interior Secretary Ken Salazar home following his announcement today that he will step down from his post and return to the state in March. Already…
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INTERIOR: Salazar's resignation spurs assessments of his tenure, talk about replacements
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today said he will leave President Obama's Cabinet by the end of March to return to his family in Colorado, leaving a deep imprint on the management of the nation's lands and waters. His departure leaves another hole in Obama's Cabinet and could signal major changes at an agency that oversees energy development, conservation and wildlife protections on a fifth of the nation's land and the outer continental shelf.
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ENERGY POLICY: Pew's Cuttino gives recommendations for clean energy standard, production incentives
How do industry leaders in the United States believe energy policy uncertainty is affecting investments and innovation? During today's OnPoint, Phyllis Cuttino, director of Pew's Clean Energy Program, discusses a…
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GHANA: Program breaks down banned secondhand refrigerators
Workers are using a new mobile refrigerator-degassing unit, imported from Germany, to dispose of old refrigerators under a new program in Ghana to move away from the use of secondhand…
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AIR POLLUTION: Chinese officials urge Beijing residents to have patience during cleanup
Beijing's skies have been covered with a toxic cloud for nearly a week, and Li Keqiang, the No. 2 leader in China's Communist Party, asked the city's residents to be…
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INFRASTRUCTURE: Army Corps finds hundreds of levees in need of repair
Hundreds of flood-control systems around the country may fail and endanger people and property, the Army Corps of Engineers has found as it conducts its first nationwide inventory of levees.…
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AIR POLLUTION: Sulfur-slashing standards for gasoline 'urgently needed,' groups tell White House
Public health advocates yesterday sought to ramp up pressure on the White House to issue a proposal that would cut the amount of sulfur in gasoline and consequently result in…
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AGRICULTURE: 3 pesticides threaten honeybees -- report
Three broadly used pesticides made by Switzerland's Syngenta and Germany's Bayer pose a threat to honeybees, the E.U. Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said yesterday. Responding to the report by EFSA,…
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RENEWABLE ENERGY: Bechtel tapped to build N.J. offshore transmission line
A Google Inc.-backed project has hired the contracting firm that constructed the Hoover Dam to build the first part of an offshore transmission system off the coast of New Jersey.…
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UTILITIES: After 'lost its way' ad airs, PG&E defends record
After the explosion of one of its natural gas pipelines, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. ran a $10 million ad campaign featuring its CEO saying the company "lost its way"…
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UTILITIES: Duke Energy chief defends, praises merger
Jim Rogers, CEO of the utility formed by the merger of Duke Energy Corp. with Progress Energy Inc., said the $32 billion deal was worth it, despite backlash over management…
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MINING: Rio Tinto chief resigns after $14B writedown
Tom Albanese, CEO of the multinational mining and metals corporation Rio Tinto Group, resigned after the company revealed a $14 billion writedown of value with two recent acquisitions. After 20…
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DOE: Plan to sell scrap metal from nuclear sites worries critics
Critics are concerned about an Energy Department waste-reduction plan to sell tons of scrap metal from government nuclear sites. The proposal adheres to DOE's policy of "reusing materials whenever possible,"…
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UTILITIES: DOE picks new leader for Bonneville Power Administration
The Department of Energy yesterday announced the selection of the Bonneville Power Administration's deputy administrator to lead the agency. Bill Drummond, who has worked in the energy industry for more…
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NUCLEAR WASTE: Top Hanford engineer advised against restarting plant -- memo
The Hanford nuclear reservation's waste treatment plant in Washington state should stop work because of quality concerns, the plant's engineering director said in an internal memo before he left his…
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NUCLEAR: Watchdog group makes final pitch to keep broken Calif. reactor closed
Nuclear activists made their final plea to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday to hold a trial-like hearing before allowing the restart of crippled reactors at the San Onofre plant on…
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BIOFUELS: Marginal farmland a potential boon for ethanol crops, CO2 reduction -- study
Marginal Midwestern farmland -- tracts not used for food crops -- can produce enough biofuels to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide spewed annually by about 10 million mid-sized cars,…
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SOLAR: FERC proposes to ease restrictions for small generators
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today handed the solar industry a potential victory after proposing to ease roadblocks that small solar generators face when trying to connect to the electric…
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