Last week, Al Gore finally admitted the obvious. The former vice president (and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize) who promoted ethanol in his Oscar-winning film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” said that corn ethanol was a “mistake.”
Read more“Cancun” doesn’t rhyme with “Copenhagen.” But the results of the meeting on global carbon dioxide emissions in the Mexican resort town that runs through Dec. 10 will undoubtedly look and sound the same as the results of the meetings held in Denmark a year ago.
Read moreImagine an American president who, during a press conference, extols the importance of cars made by Mercedes Benz or BMW.
Read moreMajority Leader Harry Reid beat GOP challenger Sharron Angle on Tuesday, helping assure Democratic control of the Senate for the next two years.
Read moreDuring her trip to China this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will talk to Chinese officials about the world’s hottest commodities: rare earth elements.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency announced on October 13 that it had approved an increase in the amount of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline from 10 percent to as much as 15 percent.
Read moreSince the 1970s, the U.S. Congress has showered the corn ethanol industry with ever-increasing mandates and subsidies.
Read moreIn the next few weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to rule on a proposal to increase from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of ethanol that may be blended into gasoline.
Read moreAbout four years ago, we launched Energy Tribune. The goal was to be a news aggregator as well as a publisher of original reporting on the global energy sector.
Read moreOn January 25, I got an email from Charlie Porter, a Missouri-based horse trainer. The issue: noise from wind turbines.
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