Archive for ‘economy’
Price Of Pizza Ingredients Heating Up
March 4th, 2008
People in Chicago love their pizza. But these days, it’s costing more and more to make that pie.
Popularity: 14%
Oil Prices Climbing Across Country
March 3rd, 2008
Gas prices are creeping up, and Marylanders are feeling the pain as they pay an extra 19 cents per gallon on average.
Popularity: 10%
Gazprom cuts gas supply to Ukraine
March 3rd, 2008
Ukraine’s state energy firm, Naftogaz, says the reduction is not significant and will not have an impact on consumers in Ukraine. A Gazprom spokesperson said deliveries had been reduced by 46 million cubic meters per day but Ukraine’s state energy firm, Naftogaz, said that supplies had been reduc…
Popularity: 11%
How High? Gas Inches Toward $4 A Gallon
February 29th, 2008
Gas prices are quickly approaching record levels in Southern California.
Popularity: 3%
Biofuels Suck!
February 28th, 2008
Biofuels took a beating when several new studies came out and we survey to stupidest resort ideas ever.
Popularity: 5%
$10 billion to be invested in measures to counter global warming
February 23rd, 2008
Some 50 institutional investors in Europe and the United States have agreed to invest $10 billion, or some 1,070 billion yen, over the next two years in order to develop and spread technologies that will help to curb global warming, informed sources said Saturday.
Popularity: 3%
Canadian province plans comprehensive carbon tax
February 19th, 2008
Canada’s westernmost province said on Tuesday it plans to impose a comprehensive carbon tax, dismissing fears voiced by the federal government as well as some business and labor leaders that the fees to fight climate change will hurt the economy.
Popularity: 4%
Lawmakers gather in Brazil to discuss climate change
February 19th, 2008
Lawmakers from the world’s major industrial nations and five emerging economies gather in Brazil from Wednesday to discuss a global climate change treaty currently under consideration.
Popularity: 3%
Swedish climate commission disagrees on joint policy
February 18th, 2008
Disagreements on the future role of nuclear energy and different calculations of how to cut greenhouse gas emissions stymied efforts Monday to reach a broad political agreement on Sweden’s future energy and climate goals.
Popularity: 3%
China: rich `culprits’ on climate change
February 16th, 2008
Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich nations are not treated as “culprits” and developing countries as “victims,” China’s top climate envoy said.
Popularity: 3%
Investors discuss climate risks at UN
February 14th, 2008
Hundreds of investors controlling $20 trillion in capital came searching for answers Thursday on how to put a price on carbon emissions blamed for global warming and create a new — and lucrative — economy based on cleaner sources of energy.
Popularity: 3%
Gas Field Unlocked After Decades
February 11th, 2008
Exxon has developed a technology that will enable drillers to tap into one of the largest natural gas fields in the country
Popularity: 4%
Ecuador official: protect Indians from oil drilling
February 10th, 2008
Ecuador’s attorney general Saturday urged the government to negotiate with oil firms to stop drilling for crude in a protected area deep in the Amazon jungle where Indian tribes hide from the outside world.
Popularity: 3%
Oppose state greenhouse gas laws
February 10th, 2008
General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner urged a group of auto dealers Saturday to lobby against individual states trying to set their own limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
Popularity: 4%
Foreclosures Lead To Hike In Abandoned Animals
February 5th, 2008
South Florida families are forced to give up their pet after they’re forced out of their homes.
Popularity: 3%
