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The average price of gasoline has gone up ever so slightly in Maine in the past week, to $3.53 a gallon. The gasoline pricing website GasBuddy.com surveys more than 1,200 Maine gasoline outlets. The average ...

Shares of Real Goods Solar Inc. rose Friday after the company said that it was working with solar energy company BlueWave Capital to build four solar projects in Massachusetts. The company, which provides ...

By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has no plans to privatise the country's oil refineries, his spokesman said on Friday, contradicting a government pledge to do so last month. The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) said late last month that Jonathan had approved a plan to sell the refineries, which have a combined capacity of 445,000 barrels per day (bpd), but run far below capacity due to decades of mismanagement in Africa's top oil producer. "The government has no plans to sell any of the nation's four refineries, so it's not true that Mr President approved the sale," presidential spokesman Reuben Abati said by telephone. Abati declined to say whether Jonathan had changed his mind or whether the BPE statement had been incorrect.

Elliott Negin is the director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Negin contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The Climate Accountability Institute's new study documenting that just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of manmade carbon emissions since the Industrial Revolution triggered some pushback in the blogosphere. Blame the likes of BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell for global warming ?

Elliott Negin is the director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). As Congress dithers for the umpteenth time over extending a key subsidy for wind energy, the fate of the industry once again is up in the air. Given that the planet needs to transition as quickly as possible away from coal and natural gas to carbon-free energy to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, who would be against renewing wind's tax credit? Never mind the fact that the oil and gas industry has averaged — in federal tax breaks and subsidies — four times what the wind tax credit is worth, annually, for the last 95 years.

Gas prices are on the rise in West Virginia, increasing 4 cents over the past week. The Triple A's "Fuel Gauge" report issued Tuesday puts the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas ...

The cost of gasoline in Rhode Island has inched up 2 cents, leaving the current local price significantly above the U.S. average. The latest price survey released Monday by AAA Southern New England found ...

A tracking website says gas prices in New Hampshire rose by 3 cents a gallon last week, bringing the statewide average to $3.41 per gallon. The average comes from GasBuddy.com's daily survey of 875 gas ...