Energy
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Oil prices have risen. That's making gas more expensive for US drivers and helping Russia's war
Sep 25, 2023 1:00 am - FRANKFURT, Germany - Oil prices have risen, meaning drivers are paying more for gasoline and truckers and farmers more for diesel. The increase also complicates the glob...
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Illinois group hosts solar town hall in PalatineSep 22, 2023 1:00 am - The Illinois Solar Education Association co-hosted a town-hall event with state Rep. Nabeela Syed this week in Palatine, where residents heard from a local solar busines...
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IECA helps finance student housing development in ChampaignSep 20, 2023 11:00 pm - OAK BROOK - The Illinois Energy Conservation Authority, an Illinois tax-exempt nonprofit organization, said Thursday it closed $15.6 million in financing for a student h...
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Vietnam detains energy policy think tank chief, human rights group says
Sep 20, 2023 1:00 am - Hanoi, VIETNAM - Vietnam has detained the director of a think tank that works on energy issues in the country - the sixth expert working on environmental and climate iss...
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Climate protesters around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuels as Earth heats up
Sep 15, 2023 1:00 am - Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dr...
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Offshore wind energy plans advance in New Jersey amid opposition
Sep 14, 2023 1:00 am - ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Two major offshore wind power projects are taking steps forward in New Jersey as the owners of one project agreed to bring the federal government i...
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Foreign Relations chair seeks answers from US oil firms on Russia business after Ukraine invasion
Sep 07, 2023 1:00 am - The head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has asked the country's top three oil field services companies to explain why they continued doing business in Ru...
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What are biofuels and why is it so confusing whether they are a source of clean energy or not?
Sep 07, 2023 1:00 am - BENGALURU, India - India, the current president of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations, has proposed a global biofuel alliance that seeks to accelerate...
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Africa Climate Summit links 'unfair' debt burden with calls to make continent's green assets pay off
Sep 05, 2023 1:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya - Climate change is "relentlessly eating away" at Africa's economic progress and it's time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters, ...
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China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant begins its wastewater release
Aug 24, 2023 1:00 am - OKUMA, Japan - The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday ...