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The US petroleum consumption declined to 18.1 million barrels per day (bpd) last year, the lowest level in 25 years, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has said. Petroleum consumption in the transportation sector plunged by a record-breaking 15% in 2020 compared to a year earlier. Oil consumption declined in every single energy-consuming sector, the EIA said in new estimates of US petroleum products consumption by source and sector for last year. Lockdowns and other measures to contain Covid across the United States in 2020 were the key reason for lower…

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Earlier this year, Shi Zhengli flatly denied allegations that the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted studies with the Chinese military after she was accused by the US of carrying out risky experiments with SARS-like coronaviruses of bat origin. Shi Zhengli, the deputy director of Сhina’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), has warned that the world should brace itself to coexist with COVID-19 as the virus will continue to mutate and spread across the globe. A top Chinese virologist, Shi was dubbed by the Chinese media “Bat Woman” for her consistent…

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Tap water is thousands of times better for the environment than bottled water, according to scientists. In fact, it takes three times as much water to produce a plastic bottle as it can hold. This might not come as a surprise but researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) have crunched the numbers to work out just how much better it actually is. The research focused on Barcelona, Spain which is home to around 1.35 million people – nearly 60 per cent of whom consume bottled water at…

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I’m sure some of you are armed for a fight, just by reading my headline. Let me cut to the punchline: yes. But not for the reasons you may think. Let’s take a walk down memory lane. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, in 2010, electric utilities in America generated 10 percent of their electricity from renewables. Ten years later, that percentage doubled to 20 percent. Now, we all know it’s easier to double a percentage when you’re going from 10 to 20 vs. 20 to 40, so I…

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Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh on Friday said that Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had endorsed a health and safety audit of the Thar Coal Power Project. The provincial minister made these remarks during a meeting with energy department officials at his office, said a spokesperson. Sheikh continued the Sindh government has decided to conduct health and safety audit survey by an ISO certified firm of all the companies operating in all blocks of the Thar Coal project. The approval will only be given to companies after health and…

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