The 'New Reality' Of Low Oil

Nobody seems willing to cut back when it comes to oil production around the world. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia try to balance their budgets with oil hovering around $35 a barrel, while Shell plans to lay off 2,800 employees after its takeover by BG.

Dec 15th, 2015

Nobody seems willing to cut back when it comes to oil production around the world. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia try to balance their budgets with oil hovering around $35 a barrel, while Shell plans to lay off 2,800 employees after its takeover by BG.

Trends in Manufacturing: Insights from 750 Leaders

Trends in Manufacturing: Insights from 750 Leaders

Despite manufacturers’ best forecasts, no one could have predicted what 2020 had in store. For many manufacturers, the destabilizing force of the pandemic exposed weaknesses along the value chain. It also highlighted opportunities to justify larger-scale.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker speaks during a Juneteenth commemoration in Boston's Nubian Square on June 18, 2021. Baker is abandoning his administration's ambitious plan to create a multi-state compact aimed at dramatically reducing transportation pollution after the deal failed to gain traction in other states. The announcement comes after Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, who supported the initiative, indicated this week he was backing away from the Transportation and Climate Initiative.

Governors Abandon Pact to Reduce Transportation Pollution

The governors of other New England states — New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont — had expressed skepticism about the program.

In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Ricki Mills looks out from her home as she waits for a fire hydrant to be turned to get water, in Dallas on Feb. 23, 2021. Texas is again at high risk of power blackouts this winter because of extreme weather like the catastrophic February storm that buckled the state's electric grid and left millions of people without heat for days, regulators said Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021.

Report: Texas Still at Risk of Winter Power Blackouts

Projections show that Texas could have a nearly 40% shortfall in available power to meet demand in the event of another severe winter storm.

This April 14, 2009, file photo, shows the new Parkway underground mine in Central City, Ky. A group of former coal company officials will go on trial in Kentucky next week for allegedly skirting federal rules meant to reduce deadly dust in underground mines. The four men on trial, who worked for now-bankrupt Armstrong Coal, ordered workers at two Kentucky mines, including the Parkway mine, to rig dust-monitoring equipment to pass air quality tests, federal prosecutors said.

4 Ex-Coal Mine Officials Cleared in Kentucky Fraud Trial

Federal prosecutors had alleged that the men ordered subordinates to tamper with dust collection equipment.

Workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, near the village of Iliamma, on July 13, 2007. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, it is extending through May a timeline to decide how or whether to proceed with proposed restrictions on mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay region, which is known for its salmon runs.

EPA Sets Timeline to Weigh Next Steps for Pebble Mine

The Army Corps of Engineers last year rejected a key permit following an environmental review.

Bill Gates speaks during the Global Investment Summit at the Science Museum, London, Tuesday, Oct, 19, 2021. A small city in the top U.S. coal-mining state of Wyoming will be home to a Bill Gates-backed experimental nuclear power project near a coal-fired power plant that will soon close, officials announced Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.

Bill Gates Venture Picks Wyoming City for Sodium Nuke Plant

The project will employ as many as 2,000 people during construction and 250 once operational.

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Controlling Food Production Costs by Improving Energy Efficiency

A host of cost-saving tools and technologies have recently become available to help increase HVAC efficiency and lower energy costs.

Shell Seeks to Move Headquarters

The oil and gas giant hopes to more easily navigate a world transitioning away from fossil fuels.

Britain's Alok Sharma, second left, President of the COP26 and Patricia Espinosa, left, UNFCCC Executive-Secretary applaud during the closing plenary session at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. Government negotiators from nearly 200 countries have adopted a new deal on climate action after a last-minute intervention by India to water down the language on cutting emissions from coal.

Nations Compromise on Coal to Strike Climate Deal

Ahead of the Glasgow talks, the United Nations had set three criteria for success, and none of them were achieved.

Manfred Steiner at his home office in East Providence, R.I., Nov. 10, 2021.

Man Fulfills Dream of Being a Physicist — at 89

He started taking undergraduate classes at 70.

Hapag-Lloyd cargo ship in the Panama Canal, Dec. 2019.

Shipping Firms Seek Technology to Cut Emissions

Shipping currently accounts for about 3% of global emissions.

Vines surround a burning building as the Kincade Fire burns through the Jimtown community of unincorporated Sonoma County, Calif., on Oct. 24, 2019. Pacific Gas & Electric has reached a settlement agreement, Nov. 3, 2021, with state regulators over the 2019 Kincade fire, which was ignited by the utility's electrical transmission equipment in a remote area of Sonoma County.

PG&E to Spend $125M for Igniting Massive Fire

$85 million goes toward the removal of abandoned transmission equipment.