Charles is a writer for Oilprice.com
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Carbon capture and sequestration poses a viable form of reducing carbon emissions and permanently removing the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, however it is only…
European wind turbine manufacturing giants like Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS), Germany’s Nordex SE (NDX1) and Gamesa Corp. Technologica SA (GAM) are in for…
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It’s about the time for the next UN expert climate report to be published, but the leaked excerpts are already causing the usual flurry of…
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The heat is on for ethanol, as the oil industry lobbies the Obama administration to lower the ethanol-gas mandate for 2014, but the folks in…
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