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Aug 26, 2011 at 07:34

Six months ago, China's exports of rare earth elements (RREs) breached the dizzying price of $100,000 per-ton barrier, a nearly 900 percent increase in prices from a year before, representing…

Aug 26, 2011 at 07:25

Observers, journalists and investors don’t always know the finer details of the qualities of biomass destined for making fuel.  The question of how much useable starch and sugar there is…

Aug 26, 2011 at 07:18

The most activist Department of the Interior in our nation's history is trying to change the rules and seize from Exxon Mobil one of the largest oil finds ever in…

Aug 25, 2011 at 08:29

On 16 August President Obama announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million by 2014 in partnership with the private sector to…

Aug 25, 2011 at 08:22

Like many of you, I am often unhappy with our political leaders. One thing that annoys me the most is that many will say or do just about anything to…

Aug 25, 2011 at 08:18

The way the price of gold keeps rising, a person might think that no matter what the downturn, gold would prove to be a good investment. I think that if…

Aug 25, 2011 at 08:14

Whatever one might think of the Obama presidency and the progress of the country or the direction the country is headed, the question is coming up more and more on…

Aug 25, 2011 at 08:07

“Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in…

Aug 25, 2011 at 08:05

Generating power from the wind in Brazil is less costly than using natural gas or hydro, according to the results of a government tender to supply electricity this week. National…

Aug 24, 2011 at 07:49

Muammar Gadhaffi’s 42 year-old regime is in its death rattle – maybe today, maybe tomorrow, his administration that has ruled Libya with a quixotic and brutal hand is about to…

Aug 24, 2011 at 07:44

President Obama's strategy for economic renewal through clean energy was flawed from the start, too over-reliant on cap and trade and public works programs to retrofit buildings for energy efficiency.…

Aug 24, 2011 at 07:42

Vehicle manufacturers Ford and Toyota have partnered to develop a new gas-electric hybrid system for light trucks and SUVs. A memorandum of understanding has been signed between two unlikely partners. …

Aug 24, 2011 at 07:40

Canada’s environment ministry has proposed tougher regulations for coal-fired power plants, but they do not go far enough to help the country achieve its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets,…

Aug 24, 2011 at 07:37

“China Moves to Support Its National Champions as the Bottom Drops Out of the Solar Market” should be the title. As an FT article points out, the price of…

Aug 24, 2011 at 07:34

Down, then up, then down again. How about that? I believe that the global risk markets will bottom sooner than people think, and that the time has come to compile…

Aug 23, 2011 at 19:17

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein Twenty years ago this month, a hardliner coup failed in Moscow. Four months later…

Aug 23, 2011 at 19:10

October Crude Oil futures fell last week on perceptions that the economic recovery in the U.S. remains sluggish. As the week wore on, disappointing U.S. economic reports continued to reveal…

Aug 23, 2011 at 19:07

Last week October Natural Gas rebounded from a 5-month low to close off the low. Despite the comeback on Friday, the trend remains down with no sign of a change…

Aug 18, 2011 at 21:10

This week has seen the sad spectacle of the 80 year-old last Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, Mikhail Sergeivich Gorbachev during an interview with the BBC's Bridget…

Aug 18, 2011 at 21:07

Commodity markets lost more than $16 billion in value during last week’s selloff, Reuters reported in a special report. Equity and commodity markets plunged…