Joao Peixe

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• This Is How Marijuana Goes Global

  Published 25 July 2018 | viewed 3,042 times

  There’s a huge investment opportunity unfolding right now, and it’s going largely unnoticed. It’s based on a global movement to essentially legalize a plant. As…

• Can Mali Maintain Its Gold Mining Status?

  Published 04 October 2017 | viewed 13,620 times

  Mali’s gold exports are falling, and new discoveries aren’t enough to make up for the loss of its giant legacy mines, where production is already…

• U.S. Unable To Halt ISIS March Towards Libyan Oil

  Published 24 February 2016 | viewed 19,210 times

  The Islamic State (ISIS) is taking on recruits faster than anyone can keep up with, and it’s heading towards Libya’s oil crescent, eyeing billions of…

• Will Billion-Dollar Coal Remediation Tech Take a Hit After Supreme Court Ruling?

  Published 16 February 2016 | viewed 5,581 times

  Now that the Supreme Court has blocked the federal government’s Clean Power Plan, investors will be wondering what it means for the multi-billion-dollar remediation technology…

• $1 Trillion in Fossil Fuel Projects Threatened from Climate Action

  Published 10 May 2014 | viewed 6,215 times

  A new report from the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) finds that there is $1 trillion worth of fossil fuel projects expected over the next decade…

• U.S. To Move LNG to Help Europe

  Published 08 May 2014 | viewed 4,444 times

  U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz indicated that the U.S. will approve more LNG export licenses in an effort to enhance the energy security of…

• Fuel Crunch In Florida As Hurricane Season Approaches

  Published 07 May 2014 | viewed 4,213 times

  Florida, the third largest consumer of gasoline behind California and Texas and the largest consumer on the U.S. East Coast, is experiencing tight supplies of…

• U.S. Asks Business Leaders To Boycott Russian Meeting

  Published 06 May 2014 | viewed 4,717 times

  The White House is discouraging business leaders from attending an economic summit in Russia later this month. The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum runs from…

• Russian Pressure Has Slovakia Hesitating To Help Ukraine

  Published 05 May 2014 | viewed 8,486 times

  In late April, Slovakia signed an agreement with Ukraine to reverse the flow of natural gas, allowing Ukraine to receive gas shipments in the event…

• Greenpeace Activists Detained, Arctic Oil Delivered

  Published 03 May 2014 | viewed 4,289 times

  In Rotterdam on April 1, Dutch police raided a Greenpeace ship intended to block the delivery of oil coming from the Russian Arctic. The tanker…

• U.S. Supreme Court Upholds EPA Coal Regs

  Published 30 April 2014 | viewed 4,468 times

  On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules on power plant pollution that blows across state lines. The 6-2 ruling…

• China Can’t Quit Coal

  Published 29 April 2014 | viewed 5,909 times

  Despite enacting recent ambitious clean energy targets, coal will likely remain a central pillar of the Chinese energy economy for years to come, according to…

• U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Tied To Aging Nuclear, Coal Plants

  Published 28 April 2014 | viewed 5,333 times

  New projections from the Energy Information Administration find that the trajectory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) is highly sensitive to the operation of the…

• Colombia Struggles To Resolve Oil Standoff With Native Tribes

  Published 26 April 2014 | viewed 4,442 times

  The Colombian government is seeking to resolve a conflict with native tribes after attacks on an oil pipeline curtailed production. Government officials planned to meet…

• Canada to Phase Out Oil Railcars Prone To Rupture

  Published 26 April 2014 | viewed 5,269 times

  Canada’s transportation minister announced on April 23 that the government would phase out controversial oil tank rail cars that have been involved in a series…

• Alaska To Invest In LNG Project

  Published 23 April 2014 | viewed 5,047 times

  The Alaskan State Legislature passed legislation on April 20 that will see the state join a partnership with oil producers on the North Slope to…

• Largest-Ever U.S. Military Solar Project Gets Underway

  Published 22 April 2014 | viewed 4,925 times

  The U.S. Army will begin construction this week at Fort Huachuca, Arizona on the U.S. Department of Defense’s largest solar project to date. When completed…

• Chinese Premier Announces Clean Energy Push

  Published 21 April 2014 | viewed 6,793 times

  Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has restated the government’s plans to aggressively build clean energy capacity throughout the country in an effort to reduce air pollution.…

• Senate Dems Press Obama on Keystone XL

  Published 11 April 2014 | viewed 4,808 times

  Eleven Senate Democrats sent a letter to President Obama urging him to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by May 31st. The letter…

• Putin Postpones Payment by Ukraine for Gas

  Published 10 April 2014 | viewed 4,710 times

  On April 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Gazprom should postpone the upfront payment of billions of dollars by Ukraine for natural gas. Gazprom…