Fossil Fuel Energy

Photo via Flickr A report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) found that power from the sun could generate 15 percent of America's power in the next decade, but only if Washington levels the playing field on subsidies. The fossil fuel industry, led by oil and coal, received $72 billion in total federal subsidies from 2002 to 2008, but earlier this year President Obama called for those subsidies to end....Read the full story on...  

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Midwest Research Institute is a key contributor on two teams awarded separate contracts to support the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in advancing the clean and efficient use of fossil fuels and alternative energy. In the first award, MRI is a team member to prime contractor Booz Allen Hamilton's five-year, $98 million contract to provide DOE...  

COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) – Cutting government subsidies for fossil energy could lead to a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as compared to 1990 levels, says a recent study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. That represents a fifth of the maximum global commitment of emission reductions envisaged by negotiators at the COP15, and could play an important part in keeping global warming under 2...