Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards has called for a federal investigation into possible antitrust violations by the oil industry and criticized oil companies for raising gas prices.
“There’s absolutely no justification for the gas companies to be as profitable as they are and have the taxpayers subsidizing the industry,” Edwards said.

Germany may have often led the way in Europe on environmental issues, but Germans still love their cars. A sophisticated and intense campaign by the German motor industry recently scuppered new EU rules on tight emissions for motor vehicles.
In the scrap it is widely seen as the European Commission’s Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen […]

Will a new Democratic Congress mean a sea-change in environmental and climate change policy? That is the question being asked by many people who voted out the Republicans. Whatever the short-term euphoria, it remains far from certain what will happen over the next two years and some of the initial signs are not good.
Let’s look […]

Car manufacturers in Europe were given a severe warning from the European Commission yesterday that they face stringent new laws if they fail to live up to their commitments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

First the bad news. According to the US Energy Information Administration, energy use will increase by 71 percent by 2030, with the fastest growth coming from China, India and Latin America.
Now the good news. Energy consumption could easily be cut in half, if clean energy technologies that are currently available were applied now, according to […]