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NKorea policy in Seoul to soften despite rocket
It is not too early to predict one sure winner of South Korea's presidential election next week: North Korea. President Lee Myung-bak's hardline ...
Obama pipeline decision may preview energy policy
It's a decision President Barack Obama put off during the 2012 campaign, but now that he's won a second term, his next move on a proposed oil pipeline ...
Japan PM dissolves parliament; vote set for Dec 16
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolved the lower house of parliament Friday, paving the way for elections in which his ruling party will ...
Correction: Wind Tax Credit story
In a story Nov. 14 about a wind energy tax credit, The Associated Press misidentified Iowa's governor. He is Terry Branstad, not Tom Branstad.
Jobs dwindle during green power debate
An eerie quiet has settled over the Walker Components plant, which assembles custom cables for a global wind turbine company. Orders are down from ...
IMF delegation in Egypt for talks on crucial loan
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund is back in Egypt for critical negotiations over a $4.8 billion loan to help bolster the country's ...
Face to face: Obama, Romney in crackling debate
An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of peddling a "sketchy deal" to fix the U.S. economy and playing politics with the ...
Romney, Obama spar on energy policy
Republican Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama's energies policies and said his rival "has not been Mr. Oil or Mr. Gas or Mr. Coal." The ...
Dems in coal states diverge on Obama policies
Friends of coal are certain they know the enemy. They fault President Barack Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency for new clean air rules ...
Decades of federal dollars helped fuel gas boom
It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy ...
Japan gets cold feet on total nuclear phase-out
Japan's Cabinet stopped short of a commitment Wednesday to phase out nuclear power by 2040, backtracking from an advisory panel's recommendation in ...
Japan gets cold feet on no-nukes policy proposal
Japan's Cabinet on Wednesday stopped short of committing to phase out nuclear power by 2040, backtracking from an advisory panel's recommendations in ...
Cabinet panel wants Japan to end nuclear power use
A Cabinet panel on Friday called for Japan to phase out nuclear power over the next three decades in what would be a major shift of national energy ...
Japan utility: No money to develop renewables
The head of the Japanese utility that owns the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant says last year's meltdowns sapped away money it might have ...
Romney promises energy independence by 2020
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney promised on Thursday to aggressively expand offshore oil drilling along Virginia, North Carolina and the ...
Debate joined on Medicare; Romney, Obama go at it
Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama in person and in TV advertising Tuesday of cutting Medicare "to pay for Obamacare," launching a strong ...
Candidates play to local issues when on the road
The economy, economy, economy, right? Not always in this presidential election. For some voters in pivotal states, issues such as wind energy tax ...
Mitt Romney's green-jobs criticism carries risks
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been savaging what it calls President Barack Obama's "unhealthy" obsession with "green jobs." The Republican ...
Republicans, Democrats at odds on energy issues
Republicans and Democrats seem to be living on different planets when it comes to how to meet U.S. energy needs. Republicans overwhelmingly push for ...