America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
If you’ve traveled by car anytime in the past year, there’s a good chance that you noticed an array of potholes, lumps, and bumps in your local street or highway. In fact, crumbling roadways...
Category: Oil
EPA Cross-State Pollution Rule Tossed By Appeals Court
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of interstate air pollution is unlawful and cannot be enforced, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today sided with more...
Japan, China Islands Fight Ramps Up After ‘Illegal’ Landings
Protests have broken out in China following the actions of a Japanese group. Sky News has the story. “Japanese activists have landed on a group of disputed islands at the center of a territorial row...
Merkel’s Green Shift Forces Germany To Burn More Coal
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government says RWE AG (RWE)’s new power plant that can supply 3.4 million homes aids her plan to exit nuclear energy and switch to cleaner forms of generation. It’s fired with coal....
End the Ethanol Mandate
Record-high corn prices should be sending a clear message to policy makers in Washington: Requiring people to put corn-based fuel in their gas tanks is a bad idea. Since 2005, the U.S. government has mandated...
White House studying potential oil reserve release
(Reuters) – The White House is “dusting off old plans” for a potential release of oil reserves to dampen prices and prevent high energy costs from undermining sanctions against Iran, a source with knowledge of...
To protect ethanol, Obama seeks to inflate meat prices
Campaigning in Missouri Valley, Iowa, yesterday, President Obama announced yet another government spending program — this time designed to inflate meat prices in Midwest swing states. “Today the Department of Agriculture announced that it...
Japan arrests pro-China activist swimmers in island row
Japanese police have arrested 14 pro-China activists who landed on disputed islands, reports say. The group had sailed from Hong Kong to the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, followed...
South Korea’s Lee Myung-bak visits disputed islands
South Korea’s president has visited islands also claimed by Japan, in a move set to raise diplomatic tensions. Lee Myung-bak flew to the islands, which are known as Dokdo in South Korea and as...
South China Sea: Beijing attacks US ‘trouble-making’
Chinese state media have hit out at US “trouble-making” on the South China Sea, two days after Beijing summoned a US diplomat on the issue. One commentary told the US to “shut up” on...
