November 4-10, 2007 Published Monday through Friday (except federal holidays)
 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

Energy Central:

• Anthropogenically driven Global Warming: Some pro and con comments
• How Transmission Operators are Helping Renewable Energy, Especially Wind

• One man's horse manure is another man's hope

• At $3.05, heating oil price sets a Mass. record | But $3.05 average will drop soon, one Mass. dealer predicts
• Fuel prices spur another holiday hike in airline fares
• Wide worries over oil prices | Analysts say burden could spur recession

• 'Going Green' Puts Business in the Red: Media praise businesses for eco-attitudes, but overlook hefty cost

• As Oil Nears $100, Look Out Below
• Chrysler's Lowball Strategy
• Ford's Shrinking Losses Play Up Mulally's Progress
• The American Green House
• Tipped Toward Recession

• Take Control of Soaring Gas Prices:  Don’t Let Your Money Evaporate

• Behind the gas price squeeze (video)
• Gas tips (video)
• Oil at record high (video)
• Tiny Smart car comes to the U.S. (video)

• Privately Seeking Utilities

• The Empty Threat Of $100 Oil

• Mascoma buys Hoosier biofuels startup
• UPC Wind gets green light for Maine wind farm

• Lawyer goes green in her own ambulance

• As oil nears $100, why isn't gas $5?

• High-Priced Oil Adds Volatility to Power Scramble
• Little-Known Entrepreneurs Putting China Near Top of Billionaires’ List

• Energy and National Security:  The Role of Renewable Fuels: A Discussion of the Importance of Renewable Fuels Like Ethanol in National Security Strategy

• Much higher oil prices seen in U.S. future

• Oil Prices: It Gets Worse

• As Energy Prices Soar, U.S. Industries Collide
• BHP Billiton Bid For Rival Driven By Mining Boom
• Biofuel Costs Hurt Effort To Curb Oil Price
• Brazil Discovers Large Oil Reserve In Deep Waters of Atlantic
• Crude Breaches $97 And Ends at a High
• Crude Oil Moves Below $94
• Crude-Oil Price Slips Slightly On Supply News
• Crude Oil's Rise Felt in Your Gas Tank
• Enel Uses Every Tool to Tap Russia
• Energy Funds
• Entergy Nuclear Spinoff Taps Rising Plant Values
• Farm-Production Strains May Keep Food Prices High
• Ford Forecast to Post Loss, After a Quarter in Black
• Ford's Narrower Loss Hints At Faster Recovery Than GM
• GM Turnaround Shown Off-Track
• GM Will Book $39 Billion Charge
• How Big Is PetroChina?
• How Big Oil Is Forced To Share the Wealth
• In Crude's Sights: $101.70, The Real Record High for Oil
• New Pistons Are Driving Global Growth
• Oil Prices Prod Beijing To Try to Ease Strain
• Out With the Trans Fats, In With a Whole Lot of Others
• PetroChina's A Shares Likely to Soar on Debut
• Prices at Pump Set To Join Crude's Rally
• Ratings Proliferate For 'Green' Builders
• Total's Net Climbs 29%, Helped by Higher Output
• Traders Weigh Mining Sector Consolidation
• U.K. Mining Firm Katanga To Buy Nikanor for $2.1 Billion
• Why $100 Oil Can't Float
• Why Coal Is to Get Additional Attention

• Big jump in local gas prices
• Energy analyst: Expect prices to go higher
• Oil prices rise to record level

• Bracing for the cold
• Initial value above $1 trillion puts PetroChina above Exxon

• Land Conservation Groups Commend Gov. Patrick for Increased Funding

• A food bill, not a farm bill
• A high risk for urban drivers
• Getting to clean coal
• Mass. makes biofuel push | Massachusetts legislative package would promote development, use of biofuels to cut oil dependence
• Mid-water trawlers causing herring shortage in New England
• Sack the plastic shopping bag
• Wide-ranging Massachusetts bill aims to promote alternative energy sources | Wide-ranging bill aims to promote wind, water power sources and curb harmful greenhouse gases

• Moving Away from a Carbon Economy

•  Oil spill could threaten S.F. Bay wildlife for years

• Senate Holds Hearing on Irrelevant Climate Plan: Recent Studies Reveal Unacceptable Outcomes

• China's Paradox

• If You Love Renewable Energy, It's Time to Freak Out

• New 'disaster' movie warns world of oil apocalypse

• Mass. bill seeks biofuel usage targets

• Biofuel bill a bid to change region's energy profile

• Europe's Dependence on Russian Energy
• Energy Economics, Drilling and Development
• Great Lakes Key Front in Water Wars
• Enviros to Protect Environmental Degradation
• Planet Propaganda
• Wising Up to Georgia's Water Woes
• Senate Climate Bill Would Be Costly/Ineffective
• Lift Ban on Offshore Energy Production
• Letter to Congress: Outer-Continental Shelf
• Lift harmful limits on offshore drilling
• The Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006: State Control, Increased Supply, and Lower Prices
• Is anti-gouging anti-consumer?
• The Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act
• Some Global Warming Scare Tactics are So Dumb, They're Funny
• On Heritage Areas
• Terrifying Message from Al Gore
• Canada Again
• Henry Paulson on Cap and Trade
• Los Angeles Times Says Paulson Critics Dislike His "Hobby"

• Chemical Industry 1, Public Safety 0
• Hope for the Everglades
• Gangs Terrorize Nigeria’s Vital Oil Region
• In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two Wheels
• Oil Spill Spreads in San Francisco Bay
• Rising Demand for Oil Provokes New Energy Crisis
• The Perils of Petrocracy
• Weed It and Reap

• A final rambling disquisition on Nordhaus and Shellenberger
• A somewhat-less-rambling review (and giveaway) of Breath Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
• Hillary releases rockin’ climate plan. Green gap grows.
• How TerraPass turned me into a bike commuter

• Rep. William Delahunt: Ethanol production is key to renewable fuels standard

• Books: Saving Civilization From Itself
• China Acts to Aid Poor After Fuel-Price Increase
• High Drama, if Not More Oil, Expected as OPEC Gathers
• High Oil Prices Could Gum Up Deficit Progress
• House Rejects Bush's Veto Of Water Bill
• Senate Votes to Override Bush Veto on $23 Billion Water Resources Bill
• U.S. Trade Gap May Grow Due to Pricier Oil Imports
• Utilities Back California In Auto-Emissions Suit
• Winter-Heating Crisis Looms

• Four Proposals Try to Tap One Fund of Oil Fees: Ruling by Federal Court Puts Collection of $6 Billion at Risk

• Patrick backing biofuel as additive to heating oil

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