By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer – Sat Aug 21, 9:33 pm ET

BUSHEHR, Iran – Trucks rumbled into Iran’s first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the country’s peaceful intentions to produce nuclear energy as well as [...]

By JUSTIN GILLIS and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF
 
Published: August 19, 2010
New research confirms the existence of a huge plume of dispersed oil deep in the Gulf of Mexico and suggests that it has not broken down rapidly, raising the possibility that it might pose a threat to wildlife for months or even years.

The study, the most [...]

Meet the battery company that Obama visited yesterday.
AUGUST 17, 2010
President Obama kicked off a five-state campaign swing yesterday with a stop at a “clean energy” plant in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. As it happens, Mr. Obama couldn’t have chosen a better company to demonstrate the risks that taxpayers are taking with their billions in green stimulus [...]

Wed Aug 11, 2010
By Luke Pachymuthu and Vladimir Soldatkin
 
SINGAPORE/MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Russian oil giant LUKOIL (LKOH.MM: Quote) has resumed gasoline sales into Iran in partnership with China’s state-run firm Zhuhai Zhenrong, even as the United States urges the international community to be tough with Tehran.
 
Iran is the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter but lacks [...]

By Thom Patterson, CNN
August 9, 2010 7:36 a.m. EDT
(CNN) — New York’s Staten Island was broiling under a life-threatening heat wave and borough President James Molinaro was seriously concerned about the area’s Little League baseball players.
It was last July’s Eastern heat wave and Consolidated Edison was responding to scattered power outages [...]

There’s no ban in Norway, Brazil, Australia, Canada . . .
Aug 7, 2010
With reason to hope that the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is being brought under control, it’s time to start thinking into the future. The Obama Administration is sticking by its ruinous deepwater drilling moratorium, when it would be better [...]

Paul Driessen
Dumb Policies Just Keep Coming
Aug 7, 2010

If 10% ethanol in gasoline is good, 15% (E15) will be even better. At least for some folks.
We’re certainly heading in that direction – thanks to animosity toward oil, natural gas and coal, fear-mongering about global warming, and superlative lobbying for “alternative,” “affordable,” “eco-friendly” biofuels. Whether the trend [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, August 6, 2010
Let us compare the Volkswagen and the “Voltswagen.”
The original Volkswagen was intended as the “people’s car” (that’s what Volkswagen means). The idea of a cheap, safe, reliable car for the working man was popular before Adolf Hitler embraced it, but as a self-proclaimed man of the [...]

By JUSTIN GILLIS
 
Published: August 4, 2010
WASHINGTON — The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of [...]

By ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Posted 08/02/2010 06:20 PM ET
You probably have never heard of oilman George Mitchell, but more than anyone else, he has changed the global energy outlook.
In 1981, Mitchell’s small petroleum company faced dwindling natural gas reserves. He proposed a radical idea — drill deeper in the company’s Texas fields to reach gas-bearing shale [...]