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Lessons from the Gulf Oil Spill: One Smoking Gun Revealed

Recent testimony to federal investigators exposed a flaw in the complex operations at BP’s Macondo well, which likely contributed to the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and Gulf oil spill.

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Valero’s Big Ethanol Push: Selling E-85 at the Company Store (Well, Gas Station)

Valero Energy has gone from corn ethanol hater to one of the largest producers of the product in the past two years.

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Google PowerMeter Is Counting On Your Inner Energy Geek

The newest improvement to PowerMeter, Google’s free home-energy saving software, includes one way-too geeky feature.

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Why Greenpeace’s Arctic Oil Activism is Just Getting Started

Cairn Energy was forced to shut down its oil exploration operations in the Arctic after Greenpeace activists breached its security perimeter.

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What Exelon’s Wind Energy Buy Means For the Future of Nuclear Power

What does it mean when Exelon, the biggest U.S. nuclear generator, gets into the wind energy business?

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