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1. Shutdown Showdown: How the Strait of Hormuz Factors into the U.S.-Iran Crisis
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

The recent mining of two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, attributed to Iran by the United States, offers an important window into the strategic thinking of Iran and similarly situated regional powers. ...

2. Getting to the bottom of the “boiling crisis”
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

New understanding of heat transfer in boiling water could lead to efficiency improvements in power plants. ...

3. Ukraine Crisis May Spur EU Clean Energy Policies, Neste Oil Says
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Europe’s concern about its reliance on Russian fossil fuels may spur governments to prioritize alternative energy, the head of Neste Oil Oyj said. ...

4. The Missing Oil Crisis of 2014
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Filed under: Energy News

5. Man Reaches For The Sun For A Solution To Pakistan's Gas Crisis
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

A plan to replace imported oil with domestic natural gas has led to fuel shortages and long lines in Pakistan. A businessman has spent $500,000 of his own money to develop an affordable solar car. ...

6. As La. Coast Recedes, Battle Rages Over Who Should Pay
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

A flood protection authority is suing to try to hold the oil and gas industries responsible for Louisiana's land crisis. But policymakers are trying to stop the lawsuit, saying it's bad for business. ...

7. Oil Price Leverage Over Russia in Ukraine Crisis
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Filed under: Energy News

8. White House: No visa for Iran's UN envoy pick
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

In rare rebuke, ex-member of group behind embassy hostage crisis denied access to US soil.  ...

9. The surprising value of waste
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... can create work and renewable resources, the thinking goes. Over the past three years, MIT spinout Sanergy has developed a model that impacts the entire sanitation value chain — from clean toilets to ...

10. Economic woes no excuse for climate inaction, says China
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... vice-director of the National Development and Reform Commission, told reporters on Tuesday. Officials in Beijing have suggested economic turmoil in Europe and political unrest ...

11. Workplace woes
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... worthwhile jobs: Tens of millions of Americans toil in low-quality, low-paying positions. “Even if they work full-time, it does not put them above the poverty line,” says Osterman, who details this problem ...

12. Cracking the code
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Bank, a pseudonym. The bank made headlines a few years ago when a rogue trader, whom Lepinay calls Kevin Voldevieille (also a pseudonym), lost billions and roiled world markets with his high-risk bets. ...

13. Gulf fishing in crisis, but is BP oil spill to blame? (The Christian Science Monitor)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

The Christian Science Monitor - John Barrios sighs wearily after a full morning of shrimping in his 16-foot aluminum boat. His reddish-brown skin bears witness to a lifetime under a beating sun: He started ...

14. Cleaning a Spill and Reigniting a Debate in Montana
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Just as the BP Gulf oil spill and the Japan nuclear plant crisis forced those communities to re-evaluate the energy produced in their backyards, the residents of Montana will soon face similar challe ...

15. BP Oil Spill: How Bad Is Damage to Gulf One Year Later? (Time.com)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Time.com - The Gulf oil spill wasn't as bad as many environmentalists feared, but the ultimate outcome is still far from certain  ...

16. A year after spill, Gulf Coast faces new crisis (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Almost a year after a massive oil spill decimated the tourism industry along the Gulf Coast, another oil-related crisis is now threatening the recovery: Gasoline prices are creeping toward $4 a gallon, ...

17. BP to resume deepwater drilling in Gulf of Mexico: report (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - BP will resume deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in July, some 15 months after the British energy giant was thrown into crisis after a fatal oil spill in the region, a newspaper said Sunday. ...

18. Plutonium found in soil at Japanese nuclear plant disaster
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Plutonium found in soil at the Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm on Tuesday over Japan's battle to contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years, as pressure mounted on the prime minister ...

19. Plutonium found in soil at Japanese nuclear plant disaster
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Plutonium found in soil at the Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm on Tuesday over Japan's battle to contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years, as pressure mounted on the prime minister ...

20. What we know, and don't know, about Japan's reactors
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... 1970 and 1978 and were of “the first vintage” of boiling water reactors — a type that represents only about a third of U.S. reactors, but 60 percent of Japan's 54 operating reactors. In the Fukushima reactors, ...

21. Economists converge at MIT
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Merton quipped. Before long, though, he was a star student of Paul Samuelson. And as bad as the economy has been recently, Merton contended, some aspects of it were worse in the 1970s, given the oil crisis ...

22. Stephen Baldwin sues Kevin Costner in BP Oil drama (Reuters)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Reuters - In the midst of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by BP drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, a number of news outlets got a bunch of yuks with news that Kevin Costner was the potential savior for ...

23. Peak Oil, Then Coal
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

When will production of oil and coal peak? After the peak, production will decline because supplies are being depleted and no new sources are to be found. Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum ...

24. Peak Oil, Then Coal
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

When will production of oil and coal peak? After the peak, production will decline because supplies are being depleted and no new sources are to be found. Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum ...

25. In The World: Turning waste into profit
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... $1 monthly membership. Measuring 10 feet by 6 feet, each center would contain a clean, safe toilet, and operators would also be able to sell products like toilet paper. The centers would be franchised ...

26. Free market cannot solve all energy problems: experts (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Between the world's thirst for energy and efforts on climate change, the economic crisis has shown that free market forces cannot solve all global issues, energy experts were told.

27. New evidence that matter and antimatter may behave differently
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... MiniBooNE physicists send beams of neutrinos or antineutrinos down a 500-meter tunnel, at the end of which sits a 250,000-gallon tank of mineral oil. When neutrinos or antineutrinos collide with a carbon ...

28. Video: Voices of Those Harmed by Obama’s Moratorium
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... will cause widespread job loss for a region already reeling from the economic effects of the BP oil spill.  The consequences [...] ...

29. Not Another Energy Crisis
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Oil is in the headlines these days. It's Déjà vu all over again. ...

30. Allen Takes Day-At-A-Time Approach To Well Seepage
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

The government's point man on the Gulf crisis authorizes BP to keep its blown-out well capped for another 24 hours after deciding that evidence of oil and gas leaks around the site were not cause for serious ...