Economic Pain Looms Large for Iranians in Nuclear Negotiations
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
President Hassan Rouhani has pledged a bright economic future to follow the lifting of sanctions, but his promises are starting to ring hollow as talks stall.
Pemex hopes to shed its reputation as a lumbering oil monopoly and to remake itself into a modern company that can compete with the world’s biggest firms.
President Hassan Rouhani has pledged a bright economic future to follow the lifting of sanctions, but his promises are starting to ring hollow as talks stall.
A floating factory for converting liquefied natural gas into the burnable variety represents a direct challenge to the Russian way of doing business.
Kurdish officials are desperately trying to sell oil abroad, even as the Iraqi government and the United States are blocking their attempts.
Representative Nick J. Rahall II has defiantly held on to his seat in a district that faults White House policy for the area’s declining coal industry.
Mr. Piltz, a climate policy analyst, resigned from the administration of George W. Bush in 2005, accusing it of distorting scientific findings for political reasons and then releasing internal White House documents to support his contention.
Conceived at the World Wildlife Fund, the initiative uses bulk purchasing power to allow for discounts on home systems.
The standoff between the two countries, in which Russian gas deliveries have been halted over Ukraine’s unpaid gas bill, has Europe worried about its winter supplies.
Curbing emissions has long been a popular cause in the European Union. But leaders have to agree on how to generate and distribute energy.
Nuclear proponents say that extending plants’ lifetimes is more economical — and a better way to hold down carbon dioxide emissions — than building new plants.
Electricity demand has not met projections, but the cost of upgrading coal-burning plants makes this an opportune moment for the reactor to arrive.
Susan Combs, the state comptroller, stirred controversy last month when she said Texas’ growing wind energy industry should no longer receive tax credits.
Many of the companies opening big new biofuel plants in the Midwest are shifting their focus to replacing petroleum in other products, like plastic bottles.
Pemex hopes to shed its reputation as a lumbering oil monopoly and to remake itself into a modern company that can compete with the world’s biggest firms.
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast.
How hyper-reactive quarantine steps in the United States could worsen the Ebola epidemic in Africa — and perhaps beyond.