Charles is a writer for Oilprice.com
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China—the world’s largest emitter of carbon-dioxide—expects power demand to grow by 5% annually and plans to more than double its power generation capacity by 2030…
Chevron today won another small victory in the ongoing case over pollution of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest at the US Court of Appeals in Manhattan, with…
Weeks of negotiations between the US and Russia over the fate of Syria and it’s chemical weapons are finally coming to a head as the…
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Just before the expected publication of a key scientific report on global warming, Lord Stern, the former World Bank chief economist and author of the…
General Electric has unveiled what is being lauded as breakthrough energy storage technology in the form of the new Durathon Battery to power an underground…