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Presidents of Sudan, South Sudan discuss border deal, amid threat of UN sanctions

The UN has threatened sanctions if the talks do not produce a deal.

The Earth Project: Power from a stone

At the world's largest electricity-producing geothermal field, California energy company Calpine is developing a process to produce power from hot rocks without water.

Loik Le Floch-Prigent, ex-oil CEO, extradited to Togo for suspected fraud

Loik Le Floch-Prigent, former CEO of international oil firm Elf, has been extradited to Togo from the Ivory Coast on suspicion of being involved in a massive fraud scheme.

Japan aims to be nuclear-free by 2040

Japan announced today that it would stop using nuclear power completely within 30 years, a major turn-around from the country that once planned to generate more than half its electricity from atomic sources. "We will use all possible political resources to realize the goal of having no nuclear plants operating by the end of the 2030s," a report by the government's energy and environmental committee states, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Nigeria should be a land of riches

ABUJA — But instead the majority of it's people are hungry. Now, a controversial new oil and gas law seeks to change that.

France nuclear plant accident injures two

"Steam escaped during a maintenance operation which set off the fire alarm."

Labor Day gas prices no picnic for US drivers

Prices have increased 53 out of 60 days after reaching a summertime low of $3.33 a gallon on July 2.

Mexico: Pemex finds deep water crude oil deposit

President Felipe Calderon said the find off the coast of the northeastern state of Tamaulipas was an “important achievement” for Pemex.
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