"Oil Stays Above $91 as OPEC Signals No Output Hike"
"Oil prices hovered above $91 a barrel Monday in Asia as some OPEC ministers signaled the group doesn't plan to boost output to cool the recent jump in crude."
Source: AP, 12/30/2010
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"China Cuts Rare Earth Export Quotas; U.S. Concerned"
"China said on Tuesday it will cut its export quotas for rare earth minerals by more than 11 percent in the first half of 2011, further shrinking supplies of metals needed to make a range of high-tech products."
Source: Reuters, 12/30/2010
"10 To Watch: GOP Freshmen on Energy"
"House Republican freshmen looking to make names for themselves on energy issues in the next Congress have some goals in common: Ramp up domestic energy production, roll back the Obama administration’s environmental rules and ensure that cap-and-trade stays dead."
Source: Politico, 12/29/2010
"In Final Hours, McCain Objected to Reid Package, Ski Area Bill"
"Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) this week blocked a package of public lands bills pushed by Democratic leadership after the removal of his own proposal to promote a land exchange in Arizona to allow a new copper mine."
Source: Greenwire, 12/24/2010
"Obama Administration Reverses Bush Wilderness Policy"
"The Obama administration has restored U.S. land managers' powers to curb development on vast tracts of America's back country, undoing what conservation groups called a 'no more wilderness' policy put in place under President George W. Bush."
Source: Reuters, 12/24/2010
"Court Rejects Refiners' Challenge to EPA Biodiesel Blending Rules"
"An appeals court rejected a challenge today by petroleum industry groups to U.S. EPA's biodiesel blending requirements, in a move affirming the agency's implementation of the renewable fuel standard."
Source: Greenwire, 12/22/2010
"BP Says It Didn't Violate Probation in North Slope Spill"
"BP Monday pleaded not guilty to probation violations relating to its criminal conviction for a major North Slope oil spill in 2006."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 12/22/2010
"Canada Vows Stricter Look At Oil Sands Pollution"
"Canada said on Tuesday it will design a system to better monitor whether northern Alberta's huge oil sands projects are polluting waterways after an independent scientific panel found major flaws in the current monitoring system."
Source: Reuters, 12/22/2010
"U.S. Ethanol Industry Faces Subsidy Battle Next Year"
"U.S. ethanol makers face a battle over reforming subsidies next year after current incentives are rolled over in the tax package signed into law by President Barack Obama on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 12/21/2010
Wyo. Fracking Rules Point Way for Public Disclosure of Chemicals Used
"The Obama administration is looking to the Cowboy State as a model for fracturing disclosure on federal lands in the West. Interior Department officials figure it would be hard to argue against an approach developed in petroleum-friendly Wyoming."
Source: Greenwire, 12/21/2010
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