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In what may be the biggest yet assemblage of high powered electric vehicles, the 2012 REFUEL races, in its fourth year, is turning into a powerhouse of an informal electric racing event. If the electric car stereotype never changes,

The Nurburgring is where car companies go to test their high performance models. The electric version of Audi's R8 couldn't beat its petrol-powered competition, but it did set an EV record.

Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Japan’s largest convenience-store operator, will use ultra-compact electric vehicles to deliver products to homes and offices starting in August

On Monday, July 2, the US Navy along with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Agriculture announced the release of two complementary Funding Opportunity Announcements

Stiff competition from China and subsidy cuts in Europe have created a steep fall in panel prices, sending solar companies

I have a good feeling about the Barclays LIBOR scandal. I think it's going to be a cracker.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plan to allow drilling on the Roan Plateau in Colorado—a 50,000 acre area that the energy industry believes to contain “one of the largest gas fields in the continental United States,”

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. will purchase $9.5 million worth of “used” water from Aurora for its oil and gas drilling operations across the state, pending Aurora City Council approval July 9.

Last Thursday, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), which regulates how much water industries can withdraw from the Susquehanna and its tributaries, ordered 22 companies to suspend their withdrawals because of low water conditions in north central Pennsylvania.

The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity: This scandal isn't about price-fixing. It's not about a bank. It's not even about power and privilege, corruption and compromise. It's about life, tragedy, and human potential. It's about the capacity to create a worthwhile future. It is, in short, about you and I, and the places we seek for ourselves in the world.

“Methane seeping up underground pathways caused concentrated plumes of gas in the air in Bradford County where the state and a natural gas drilling company are investigating the cause of stray methane bubbling in streams and water wells, according to a study released Tuesday by the Clean Air Council. The researchers were limited to surveys along public roads and on a few properties where landowners gave them permission to take air samples and so could not track the precise emissions points for the gas.” Note “researchers were limited.”

Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) delivered Model S, the world’s first premium electric sedan, to its first customers at an invitation-only event at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California today. These deliveries put Model S on the road approximately one month earlier than previously announced and places the company in a good position to build 5,000 cars by the end of 2012, followed by 20,000 cars in 2013.

Renewable energy sources such as wind power, and the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC), contribute to national security, Iraq war veteran Mario Rivas writes in a recent Huffington Post opinion article.

Comments Rivas, "As a combat veteran, I am trained to also consider the security risks of not embracing a new and more effective way forward. Where our energy sources are concerned, those risks are higher than you might think.

The following information was released by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (Massachusetts):