Pownal Select Board approves engineering firm for landfill study  Bennington BannerPOWNAL — Since a walk-through inspection of a town landfill last summer revealed it likely had not been capped properly, the Select Board has hired an ... Read mor …

Bayside engineering student participates in first VEX Robotics Competition for high schoolers in Taiwan  QNS.comKayla Ho of Bayside loved learning about “how things work” even before she learned about engineering. The New York Institute of Techno …

Financial TimesSingapore carbon tax set to squeeze oil groupsFinancial TimesThe proposed tax is the latest indication that countries in Asia, the world's biggest oil market, are moving to curb greenhouse gas emissions. China, the world's biggest em …

Arab NewsRosneft Signs Libya Oil Deal as More Investors Return to CountryBloombergRosneft PJSC signed investment and crude-purchasing agreements with Libya's National Oil Corp. as more international companies return to the North African country to gain …

MarketWatchOil prices rise as investors increase their bullish betsMarketWatchLast week, hedge funds and other big money managers increased their net long position — a bet on rising prices — in Brent crude oil to the highest level since records started in …

Economic TimesChina Wins Big With Stakes in $22 Billion Abu Dhabi Oil DealBloombergChinese companies are big winners in the competition among foreign bidders for stakes in Abu Dhabi's largest oil concession, snatching a combined 12 percent of the ventu …

Norway Doubles Down On Arctic OilOilPrice.comWhile Canada and the U.S. ban Arctic drilling for oil and gas motivated by environmental concerns, and majors such as Shell pull out of their Arctic projects due to financial pressures, Norwegian energy companie …

PRIWorld's biggest oil exporter Saudi starts hunt for solar and wind firmsPRIBut as part of the Vision 2030 economic reform plan to wean the kingdom off oil, it has set a target of 9.5 GW of renewable energy by 2023. "This marks the starting point …

AOL Small BusinessIs olive oil about to get more expensive?AOL Small BusinessThe price of olive oil is expected to soar this year, thanks to dismal olive harvests in Spain and Italy, the world's top producers of the popular oil. "2017 will be very …

ReutersTrump's defense chief: 'We're not in Iraq to seize anybody's oil'ReutersMattis was the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit Iraq since Trump irked Iraqis with a temporary ban on travel to the United States and f …