Fully half of all Americans (50%) say they are optimistic about the economy, a strong six-point jump over the past month and the highest percentage since November 2015, according to the results of a new consumer survey released by the National Association of Convenience Stores.
Gasoline retailers in Iowa plan to add a large number of renewable fuel pumps this year to sell gasoline with a higher percentage of ethanol.
The average fuel economy for new vehicles sold in February held steady at 25.2 mpg, according to researchers Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
The Obama administration, in a significant reversal, announced Tuesday it was withdrawing a planned oil and natural gas lease sale off the southeast Atlantic coast, prompting cheers from coastal communities and environmentalists but criticism from oil companies and some state leaders.
Sea-level rise, a problem exacerbated by greenhouse gas emissions, could disrupt the lives of more than 13 million people in the United States, three times more than most current estimates, according to a study published Monday.
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday challenged African oil producers to see the huge challenges confronting the oil sector as a unique opportunity for Africa to look beyond the exploitation of oil to the use of other natural resources to upscale national revenues.
Margo T. Oge, the author and former EPA official who defended ethanol so well in The Wall Street Journal last November, has a new post on HuffPo that takes on three myths about the nation’s fuel-economy standards for vehicles.
For the third month in a row, Earth’s global temperatures in February 2016 were the most abnormally warm on record for any month, according to an analysis released by NASA.
Big oil producers have been negotiating for weeks on a deal to limit crude output in the hope of raising oil prices. Now their talks are hitting obstacles.
A year later, the war has been a humanitarian disaster for Yemen and a study in the perils of the Obama administration’s push to get Middle Eastern countries to take on bigger military roles in their neighborhood.
