Keystone Report Said Likely to Disappoint Foes on Climate

The U.S. State Department is preparing a report that will probably disappoint environmental groups and opponents of the Keystone pipeline, according to people who have been briefed on the draft of the document.

Green energy race 'fierce'

ARVADA, Colo., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. energy secretary said during a tour of a solar manufacturing plant in Colorado that global competition in the green energy sector was "fierce."

U.S. energy security requires partners

Inexhaustible and inexpensive energy have long been core to popular American beliefs in what drives their economic growth and standards of living. But the notion of U.S. energy security as ready, affordable supply is deceptively simple. The reality is, in a highly globalized and interdependent world, a unilateral U.S. solution to energy security is an illusion. As long as the U.S. remains a large net energy importer, its energy security must involve others, both bilaterally and multilaterally.