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Climate protesters around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuels as Earth heats up

By The Associated Press
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...
Offshore wind energy plans advance in New Jersey amid opposition

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press
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...
Foreign Relations chair seeks answers from US oil firms on Russia business after Ukraine invasion

By ED DAVEY Associated Press
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...
What are biofuels and why is it so confusing whether they are a source of clean energy or not?

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press
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...
Africa Climate Summit links 'unfair' debt burden with calls to make continent's green assets pay off

By CARA ANNA and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press
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, ...
China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant begins its wastewater release

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
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 ...
Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in protected area

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2023 1:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Ecuadorians voted against drilling for oil in a protected area of the Amazon, an important decision that will require the state oil company to end ...
Offshore drilling rig arrives in Lebanese waters ahead of work near the border with Israel

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - BEIRUT - An offshore drilling rig arrived at its destination in the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon's coast and will start operations in the coming weeks to search for gas...
Pritzker vetos bill that would lift nuclear moratorium

BY JENNY WHIDDEN jwhidden@dailyherald.com
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday vetoed a bill that would have enabled the construction of new nuclear reactors in Illinois for the first time in more than three decades. T...
ComEd establishes new programs for electric vehicle use

Aug 08, 2023 11:00 pm - CHICAGO - ComEd Wednesday joined with regional and municipal leaders to unveil its latest programs designed to accelerate the adoption of electrified electric vehicles i...

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