25 April 2013
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – Norway‘s sovereign wealth fund is looking into selling off shares in oil firms that work in Equatorial Guinea, where oil revenue does nothing to relieve abject poverty, the fund’s ethics council said, a list that includes Exxon Mobil. The Norwegian Pension Fund Global was Exxon Mobil’s tenth-largest shareholder at [...]
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25 April 2013
With 3,000 entries, the competition was the stiffest it has been in its three-year history. The cost savings and percentage of energy reduction for all 3,000 buildings was measured and compared. This year, an elementary school in Bloomfield, N.J., took home the EPA’s Energy Star National Building Competition top prize. Here are the details. * [...]
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25 April 2013
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s most valuable company, says it’s raising its dividend by 6 cents, or 11 percent, to 63 cents. A long slide in Apple Inc.‘s share price has allowed Exxon to retake the top spot, as measured by market capitalization. It was worth about $399 billion at Wednesday’s [...]
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25 April 2013
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Chevron Corp. on Wednesday raised its quarterly dividend to $1 from 90 cents per share. The dividend is payable June 10 to shareholders of record on May 17. Chevron shares rose 80 cents to close at $118.28. The second largest U.S. oil and gas company is scheduled to report first-quarter [...]
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25 April 2013
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lawmakers moved ahead Wednesday with a tax incentive bill designed to attract wind-energy companies to Nebraska, little more than a day after the state officially lost a $300 million Facebook data center to Iowa. The 30-0 vote also came as a Kansas-based company, TradeWind Energy, considers building a possible wind farm [...]
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25 April 2013
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho alternative energy company beset by lawsuits faces another one, this time from a bike race that says it hasn’t been paid millions in promised sponsorship money. Exergy Development Group of Boise and its owner, James Carkulis, were sued in Colorado by Classic Bicycle Racing, owner of Colorado’s USA Pro [...]
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24 April 2013
The remains of a real-life journey to the center of the Earth are preserved in a South Pacific volcano, a new study suggests. The lava that erupted from the Cook Islands volcano, called Mangaia, contains a few tiny grains of sulfide, a mineral, with a peculiar ratio of sulfur isotopes, according to research published in [...]
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24 April 2013
A lot has changed in thirty years, but one thing has stayed the same: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has allowed power plants to dump just as many toxic pollutants in the nation’s waterways as they did in 1982. Well, until now, that is. The EPA announced late last week that it would be updating [...]
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24 April 2013
Since joining The Nature Conservancy, and over the course of writing Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature, I’ve been fortunate to benefit from the perspectives and advice of many leaders of the environmental community. To continue the conversation on the ideas in Nature’s Fortune, I recently spoke with leading conservationists, [...]
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24 April 2013
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24 April 2013
Joe Oliver, Canada’s minister of natural resources, called James Hansen’s views ‘frankly nonsense’. Photograph: Blair Gable/REUTERS Canada‘s natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, rarely bothers to hide his dislike for critics of the country’s carbon-heavy tar sands or the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. But it still came as a surprise to hear Oliver lash out at [...]
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24 April 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Chevron expected to post weaker sales and profits Friday due to slowing production and lower energy prices. Chevron has been the most profitable of the energy majors in recent years because a big part of its production mix is oil, which has been fetching high prices. Rivals, like Exxon Mobil, produce [...]
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24 April 2013
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia motorists are seeing higher prices at the gas pump. AAA East Central says the average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline rose 6 cents in the past week and now average $3.64 per gallon in the state. That’s 22 cents cheaper than the same week a year ago. [...]
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24 April 2013
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Beef Products Inc. has agreed to pay a $450,000 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of Clean Air Act regulations from a 2007 incident at a now-closed Waterloo packing plant which killed a worker and injured another. In the accident more than 1,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia was released into an [...]
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How trout are ‘rewilding’ both rivers and children – The Guardian
Shale mining under Great Barrier Reef ‘likely to be banned’ – The Guardian
N.J. Elementary School Wins Energy Star Competition
Exxon Mobil raises dividend 11 pct, to 63 cents
Chevron raises dividend to $1 from 90 cents
