Charles is a writer for Oilprice.com
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Despite the fact that Iraq is preparing to experience one of its largest ever jumps in oil production output in its history, Hussain al-Shahristani, the…
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A new report compiled in consultation with the White House and a pool of clean-energy experts suggests that clean-coal technology is too embryonic to use…
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