Energy
Japan's trade deficit climbs to $10.5B in May
Japan's trade deficit rose nearly 10 percent in May to 993.9 billion yen (nearly $10.5 billion), highlighting the challenge Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces in revitalizing manufacturing as industries increasingly shift production offshore. Rising costs for imports due to the cheaper yen matched a 10 percent rebound in exports from ...
Cape Wind gets $200M investment from Danish fund
The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in what the wind farm's president said Tuesday is a milestone for the long-delayed project. In a statement announcing the commitment, PensionDanmark's chief executive Torben Moger Pedersen noted the fund has already invested ...
EPA report critical of Wash. oversight at Hanford
A new report released Tuesday faults Washington state for lax oversight at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, saying the state employs too few inspectors and gives advance notice of inspections to the federal agency charged with managing the cleanup. The report by the Environmental Protection Agency sharply criticizes the ...
Allegheny County seeks gas drilling bids
Allegheny County officials say they plan to request bids for natural gas drilling under a public park. County Executive Rich Fitzgerald says Tuesday that the county could get up to $700,000 a year in royalty payments for drilling under Deer Lake Park, which is about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. ...
Army Corps won't do overall study of coal exports
An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday that the agency doesn't plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the Western United States. Environmentalists and elected officials in Washington, Oregon and Montana have called on the federal government to look at the cumulative ...
NYC to offer free phone-charging stations in parks
It's a message busy New Yorkers hate to get: the low-battery message on your cellphone when there's no charger in sight. Now that could be a thing of the past. New York City has teamed up with AT&T to install 25 solar-powered charging stations for public use, available for free ...
Number of Town of Jackson polluted wells hits 39
Wisconsin environmental officials say the number of wells contaminated by a 2012 gasoline pipeline spill continues to grow in the Town of Jackson. Recent tests detected benzene in two additional private wells, pushing the number of contaminated wells to 39. Town officials have decided to ask the Village of Jackson ...
Utilities ask Conn. to back large natural gas plan
Connecticut's regulated utilities have wasted no time seizing on a new state energy policy passed by the legislature less than two weeks ago to encourage natural gas hookups. Connecticut Natural Gas, Southern Connecticut Gas and Yankee Gas have presented state regulators with a rare joint proposal outlining how they would ...
Vt.'s GMP says saving bats would cost $4 million
The utility that owns the Lowell Mountain wind power project said it would have to stop its turbines from spinning at night for six months a year to eliminate any risk to the little brown bats known to fly on the mountain. Idling the turbines would cost the utility about ...
The ins and outs of G-8 summit promises
Group of Eight summit participants are powerful people: the leaders of the U.S., Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, plus top officials from the European Union. But they only make promises. There's no actual change until the words are pursued by individual governments or other international organizations. Sometimes ...
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