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New BNEF report shows that renewable energy adoption is growing in the world’s emerging economies nearly twice as fast as industrialised nations. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1EfeuNg

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article called, Glut of Capital and Labor Challenge Policy Makers: Global oversupply extends beyond commodities, elevating deflation risk. To me, this is a very serious […]

Last week, the EIA published the weekly natural gas storage report on April 30, 2015. The weekly natural gas in storage increased by 81 Bcf. via Market Realist http://ift.tt/1FMZtYo

"This is the first documented and published demonstration of toxic compounds escaping from uncased boreholes in shale gas wells and moving long distances [into drinking water]." The post Scientists Discover Fracking Chemicals […]

Refracking is still too unpredictable to rely on as a way to slash costs and increase output during the oil price slump, top US shale oil executives say. via Rigzone.com: Latest News […]

Since around 2005 many countries have increased their oil production but more have decreased. But the combined production of the United States and Russia have kept the world on a slight uptrend […]

New research from the Columbia Water Center suggests that many more places in the United States are at risk of drought-induced water stress than is commonly thought, including dense metropolitan regions such […]

When you’re sitting on a shed load of sugarcane, it’s nice to know you have options. For Brazil, as the powerhouse of global sugar production, that choice falls into two broad areas […]

Recent news from the International Energy Agency has shown that the rise in global CO2 emissions from the energy system stalled in 2014. This was unusual on two counts – first that […]

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that vacated the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Order 745, which calls for demand response to […]