Fuel

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Howard Cox, founder and CEO of Fairfuel UK, one of Britain’s most successful campaign groups. Howard works in the interests of motorists, calling for lower fuel prices and freezes on taxes. Fairfuel UK addresses other motoring issues such as bans on petrol cars and environmental traffic measures.

The European Parliament formally approved a law to ban the sale of new gas and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, in a bid to achieve net-zero carbon-dioxide emissions from vehicles. The new legislation is part of the E.U.’s broader climate ambitions, with the aim of achieving a 100 percent reduction in emissions for new […]

Thousands of people were in Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 50th annual March for Life in a post-Roe America. President Joe Biden is touting legislative achievements on his second anniversary in office. The White House makes its latest move after Biden says he has “no regrets” about classified documents. An often overlooked factor of […]

Environmentalists are trying to find a reliable way to generate electricity without fossil fuels. In Western Australia, a test is underway to see if so-called green hydrogen is the way to go.  

BOGOTA—A fuel tank exploded into flames in Colombia’s Caribbean city of Barranquilla early on Wednesday, killing a firefighter who fell during the explosion, local authorities said. The firefighter was identified as Javier Solano, 53, by Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro in a message on Twitter, in which he pledged to support the city’s mayor, Jaime Pumarejo. […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Airplanes flying into Orlando International Airport on Monday were encouraged to top off at airports they were coming from after recent bad weather prevented the delivery of reserve jet fuel, prompting fears that visitors could face delays. Airport spokesperson Carolyn Fennell said there have not been any major interruptions and that reserve fuel was […]

CAIRO—A fuel tanker truck caught fire and exploded Monday in central Libya, killing at least five people and injuring 50 others, authorities said. The incident took place in the central town of Bent Bayya, according to the Health Ministry in the capital of Tripoli. The ministry did not say how many were killed, but Foreign […]

Fuel protesters have brought gridlock to motorways and A-roads across the UK with a series of rolling go-slow roadblocks. Dozens of campaigners drove at 30 miles per hour to disrupt traffic during the morning rush hour. The protesters called for a cut in fuel duty amid rising prices, but the government says people’s day-to-day lives should not be […]

Protesters have gridlocked motorways and A-roads across the UK, calling for a cut in fuel duty amid rising prices. Kyiv withdraws its forces from Lysychansk, Ukraine’s last stronghold in the Luhansk region, with Russia saying capturing the city was a key Kremlin goal. A suspect was arrested after a Copenhagen shopping centre shooting killed three people […]

A record 42 million people around the United States are expected to hit the road for trips over the July 4 Independence Day weekend, AAA said Tuesday, absorbing historically high fuel costs to crowd the highways. That figure, should it pan out, would surpass 2019’s peak, when 41.5 million people traveled by vehicle on Independence […]

Russia amassed 93 billion euros ($98 billion) from fossil fuel exports during the first 100 days of its war in Ukraine, according to a report by the independent Centre For Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) published Monday. European Union leaders last month agreed on a plan to block roughly 90 percent of oil imports from Russia to the E.U. by the […]

With fuel prices still high, businesses and households across Australia are looking for ways to cut costs. For a rural town in Queensland, turning cooking oil into biodiesel is part of the solution.

Russia’s war on Ukraine has led to crude oil prices rising. This has been part of the reason why diesel and gasoline prices in the United States have skyrocketed. And since food is often transported by truck, food prices are on the rise as a result. NTD spoke with Mike Kucharski, vice president of JKC […]

Multiple people were shot and at least 13 were injured on Tuesday in a New York City subway station where authorities found undetonated explosive devices, the Fire Department said.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin says he has no doubt Russia will achieve its goals in Ukraine, and argued they had no other choice than to take military action. This as Ukraine tries to verify unconfirmed reports that Russia may have used chemical weapons.

The Biden administration is allowing the sale of higher-ethanol gasoline blends this summer. It’s an effort to address the increasing fuel costs due. in part. to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Kremlin on Friday accused Ukraine of a military strike against a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod while saying that the attack was unhelpful for the progress of Russia-Ukraine peace talks, which were set to resume on Friday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that the strike, which Ukraine has neither […]

The Biden administration has increased fuel efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, bringing back tougher rules from the Obama era.

Haitian rescue workers have found 61 bodies at the site of a fuel truck explosion in the city of Cap-Haitien, a fire department official said on Wednesday, adding that the death toll was worsened by residents attempting to break open the vehicle to gather fuel.