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New power-efficiency specifications being implemented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday could help consumers purchase energy-efficient electronics while cutting energy costs.

New power-efficiency specifications being implemented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday could help consumers purchase energy-efficient electronics while cutting energy costs.

China National Oil Co. is usually viewed as a tool of government interests — a state-owned entity that hungrily seeks overseas oil and exploration contracts to meet China’s burgeoning energy needs.

China National Oil Co. is usually viewed as a tool of government interests — a state-owned entity that hungrily seeks overseas oil and exploration contracts to meet China’s burgeoning energy needs.

WASHINGTON—Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead.

Xcel Energy on Tuesday announced it has asked the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission to grant an increase in base electric rates.

Progress Energy Florida customers will get a small refund because the utility spent too much on fuel in 2006 and 2007. The Florida Public Service Commission ordered the $7.6 million refund on Tuesday.

Canadian stocks stumble, with prices for energy and metals pulling back on concerns that a downturn in consumer confidence and falling home prices in the U.S. will dent economic recovery.

Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) said yesterday the Senate could endanger passage of a national energy program if its gets bogged down attempting to rewrite $40 million in industrial tax credits approved by its Finance Committee.