ScienceDaily (May 24, 2007) — U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels decreased by 1.3 percent in 2006, from 5,955 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2005 to 5,877 MMTCO2 in 2006, according to preliminary estimates recently released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
 

CHERRY HILL — This town, with its vast housing developments and miles of shopping centers lining every thoroughfare, was not designed to go easy on the Earth, but that isn't stopping local officials from going green.
 
Cherry Hill, once a desolate farmland and now a bustling Philadelphia suburb of 70,000, is one of the latest examples of a nationwide movement of local governments committing to make environmental issues a priority.
 

 
BEIJING -- China is planning to quadruple its strategic oil reserves to 12 million tons within three years and secure roughly the equivalent of one month's import by 2010, state media said Thursday.
 
By 2020, reserves will be further raised to the equivalent of three months' import, the Shanghai Securities News said, citing Chen Deming, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top planning agency.
 

 
NEW YORK: The $100-a-barrel oil that Goldman Sachs Group said would prevail by 2009 may be only a few months away.
 

When the Democrats first took over the Senate early this year, the one energy bill the leadership was confident it could pass was a renewable portfolio standard, or RPS—a requirement that at some time in the future, utilities will generate a higher percentage of their electricity from wind, solar, or other renewable energy sources. After all, 29 states have already adopted such requirements, and the Republican-controlled Senate passed such a bill in 2005; it was thrown out only because the House wouldn't agree.