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By Chijioke Ohuocha and Svetlana Burmistrova LAGOS/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Nigeria has selected two sites for the construction of its planned nuclear power plants, as Africa’s biggest economy tries to end decades of electricity blackouts that have blighted its growth. Russia’s state-owned Rosatom, which has been in talks with Nigeria over the nuclear plants, on Friday confirmed two sites had been selected in Africa’s most populous nation and said they would
The Obama administration on Friday proposed tougher fuel-efficiency standards for medium and heavy-duty trucks, the latest move by President Barack Obama in his second-term drive to reduce pollution blamed …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New U.S. performance standards for heavy trucks include the goal of reducing carbon emissions by 8 percent from more aerodynamic truck trailers, a senior Environmental Protection Agency official said on Friday.
The Obama administration is issuing new rules intended to improve fuel efficiency for medium and heavy-duty trucks and cut pollution blamed for global warming. The proposed standards are expected to lower …
By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa is considering using reactors from Russia’s Rosatom and Westinghouse for its 9,600 megawatt nuclear fleet expansion, an energy advisor to government said on Friday. Africa’s most developed economy aims to build six new nuclear power plants by 2030 at an estimated cost of between 400 billion rand to 1 trillion rand ($33 billion to $82 billion). Kelvin Kemm, a member of
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is already looking at the possibility it will need to reset biofuels use targets in 2017 and beyond, an official said at a Senate hearing on the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program on Thursday.
The much-anticipated hearing by the Senate subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management will likely increase congressional attention to the pitfalls of the decade-old biofuels policy as it faces a fresh wave of criticism from policymakers, the oil industry and environmentalists. Introduced in 2005 and a pillar of two presidential administrations, the RFS was aimed at cutting America’s dependence on foreign oil and shift the nation to cleaner energy sources.
Native American reservations could produce much more of the country’s solar and wind energy, but the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs largely has hindered energy development on tribal lands, the investigative …
NATO’s top commander said on Wednesday Russia’s announcement it was adding 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal was not the kind of behavior expected of a responsible nuclear power. President Vladimir Putin’s announcement on Tuesday of the planned new deployments put further strain on the relations between Moscow and the West, already tense over the Ukraine crisis. “This is not a way that responsible nuclear nations behave,”
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Asian Development Bank says Asia has made huge strides in developing clean energy but must boost investment and use of available technology to meet rising demand and cope with climate change.
