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Environmental Capital provides daily news and analysis of the business of the environment. It tracks how growing green concern, particularly over climate change, is roiling established industries and spurring new ones – and how that shift is affecting investors, consumers and the planet.
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Crude oil joined stock markets in celebrating the Citigroup rescue, rising more than 9% to close above $54 a barrel. Of course, other explanations are making the rounds for crudes biggest one-day gain
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Crude oil futures retreated Tuesday to just over $52 a barrel due to unremitting signs of weak global demand, and Russia may coordinate output cuts with OPEC, Bloomberg reports. Natural gas prices wil
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As President-elect Obama gears up for his big clean-energy push, its worth keeping an eye on Californias own green rush, especially since Golden State legislators hold key environment and energy posit
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Is consolidation finally coming to the U.S. ethanol industry?Bankrupt VeraSun, the biggest U.S. ethanol producer, said it has received an offer from an unnamed third party. POET, another big ethanol p
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Crude oil has fallen, but plenty of people expect it to rebound sharply in coming years. Natural gas prices, on the other hand, are set to stay low for a long time. And that makes the economics of cle
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Crude oil futures rebounded to $52 in the wake of Chinas interest rate cuts, but the gloomy outlook for Chinese and global growth is still feeding the bears. Merrill Lynch slashed its 2009 oil price f
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Leila Abboud reports:For the past two years, Lord Nicholas Stern has been the standard-bearer of the most aggressive approach to curbing emissions to limit the fallout from global warming, influencing
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As far as oil markets are concerned, theres still hope for the Chinese economy; Americas been given up for dead.Thats one reading from todays oil-price rebound. Consider: The U.S. announced firm data
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Stephen Power reports:Environmentalists took heart with the EPAs decision to block a new coal-fired plant in Utah. So did Senate majority leader Harry Reid. Forget coal, Sen. Reid says (AP)In a letter
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The busiest travel period of the year will be a little less busy this yearnot even cheap gasoline or the prospect of somebody else cooking the turkey and stuffing can trump an economy headed downill.S
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