BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil.Full story
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A European probe into possible oil price manipulation expanded with the investigation of a small niche trading house in the Netherlands and a key U.S. senator on Friday called for the Justice Department to join the investigation. Full story
Millions of dollars from a petroleum tax have been diverted to plug holes in the state budget and pay interest on debt, Michigan's auditor general said Friday. Full story
CNBC's Bertha Coombs reports the latest numbers on energy supplies from the EIA Inventory Report.
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The Keystone pipeline, a project to transport heavy crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast, is expected to provide hundreds of temporary construction jobs in the U.S., but critics say the oil it carries comes at a terrible cost. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.
Mark Hertsgaard, contributor to The Daily Beast, talks with Rachel Maddow about the devastating health effects of Corexit, the oil dispersant used by BP in the Gulf to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on the workers and residents of the area.
The Atlantic's James Bennet joins Morning Joe to discuss how new technologies may help prove that fossil fuel may not be finite.
A driver fills up with fuel at a Shell petrol station in London May 15, 2013. Oil companies will face the full force of the law if they manipulated prices, Britain's energy minister said on Wednesday as the European Commission's demanded more firms provide information as part of its probe into oil p
Fuel pumps are seen at a Shell petrol station in London May 15, 2013. Oil companies will face the full force of the law if they manipulated prices, Britain's energy minister said on Wednesday as the European Commission's demanded more firms provide information as part of its probe into oil pricing.
A BP logo is seen at a petrol station in London May 15, 2013. Oil companies will face the full force of the law if they manipulated prices, Britain's energy minister said on Wednesday as the European Commission's demanded more firms provide information as part of its probe into oil pricing. REUTERS/
Sherif Haddara, Egypt's new Petroleum Minister, who has been newly assigned to his position during a cabinet reshuffle, is pictured in this undated handout photo provided by the Egypt Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and released on May 7, 2013. Haddara, chairman of the Egyptian General P
