Iraq’s crude oil shipments to the United States have fallen to the second lowest monthly level in almost four years, the U.S. Energy Department has confirmed. Iraq exported 341,000 barrels of crude oil a day that month to the U.S. market in May, down 39 percent from the month before.
The Energy Department said it was […]

People in Britain have begun to think the unthinkable. That climate change is actually here.
As huge swaths of the country are under water, with many communities without power or water people are asking whether this is a freak of nature or this is climate change. In may places over a month’s rain fell in one […]

Such is the continued division over Iraq’s controversial oil law it is now unlikely to be passed before September, when the Bush administration must report to Congress on Iraq’s progress toward meeting certain legislative benchmarks.
The report is expected to have an impact on whether Congress continues to support the Iraq war.In Iraq’s Parliament yesterday several […]

America’s high gas prices are being caused, in part, by what has been called an “invisible hurricane” - have been plagued by a record number of fires, power failures, leaks, spills and breakdowns this year, causing dozens of them to shut down temporarily or trim production.
These mechanical breakdowns have created a bottleneck in domestic energy […]

Interesting story in today’s Independent about events in Brandywine Street, a suburb of Washington DC, which the paper argues is “now on the frontline of America’s fractious debate about climate change.”
It reports: “Early on Monday morning, two masked men arrived there wielding baseball bats and a machete. They then set about attacking […]