BP PLC’s cost-cutting efforts contributed to a Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 workers and injured 180 others in March 2005, a federal agency said yesterday.
Original post by Steven Mufson

It looks like a robot from a science fiction movie but it only exterminates fluorescent light bulbs. The new bulb eater at the University of Calgary, an alien-looking lamp crushing system, will keep mercury out of landfills and reduce the overall volume of waste. The machine is one of only a few in Calgary and […]

There is still no such thing as a truly green consumer despite the increase in the range of green and “ethical” products available, according to new Leeds-led research into the choices and trade-offs made by shoppers.
Original post by KTVA Anchorage and software by Elliott Back

Every other year, the World Wildlife Fund publishes the Living Planet Report, which charts trends in the world’s ecosystem biodiversity and the human ecological footprint. The most recent report update released Oct 24th, 2006 warns of a worldwide ecosystem collapse within 50 years. The WWF report urges that we must reduce global consumption by at […]

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct. 29 — President Evo Morales trumpeted the completion of his natural gas and oil nationalization plan on Sunday, though key issues remained to be addressed with Brazilian state energy giant Petrobras, Bolivia’s largest investor.
Original post by Dan Keane

Hoping to find new ways of addressing environmental pollution, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has developed some novel ways to observe what happens inside a cell when it comes in contact with contaminants or when toxic substances touch soil and water.
Original post by KTVA Anchorage and software by Elliott Back

In sub-Saharan Africa, the oil crisis is not a vexing ‘cost crunch’; it is an unfolding catastrophe that could set back efforts to reduce poverty and promote economic development for years to come.
Original post by Abdoulaye Wade

Perhaps today's gas news is summed up best in just two simple little words:
No changes.
Happy Turkmen Independence Day, Nicholas
Original post by Nicholas

Some say it was for pump accuracy, long ago… but now Its just a marketing scam. $2.34 9/10 is really $2.35 as it is rounded up. It adds up… FAST! If an average of 350,000,000 of gas are pumped …
Original post by bergerpjr

Cutting-edge research identifying the types of products that cause the greatest environmental damage is the focus of a special issue of Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Original post by The Business Review

Perhaps the question you need to ask is why are the Oil companies reporting Record profits yet we suffer at the pumps? The cost of Oil has gone up per barrel, but the pumps are always the first to …
Original post by Steven

Everything's better up north, eh? Well, we're not going that far north. Just Bryan, not Canada.
After spotlighting College Station yesterday, the GPW Crew spent today's rainy afternoon cruising the streets of the elder half of the B-CS metroplex. That's right - we're collecting good gas prices, Texas style.
If we've proven one thing over the past […]

HONG KONG, Oct. 24 — Now may be a good time for investors to soak up some sun.
Original post by Jane Spencer

Global oil resources are at times difficult to measure. World oil statistics are available from a variety of sources, but no one can make an accurate prediction of when and where new oil deposits will be found, or how much oil exists in these unknown locations. In order to be able to predict the date […]

A novel experiment, known as CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets), begins taking its first data today with a prototype detector in a particle beam at CERN , the world’s largest laboratory for particle physics. The goal of the experiment is to investigate the possible influence of galactic cosmic rays on Earth’s clouds and climate. This […]