Western Europe

Electric vehicle production capacity is increasing across the board globally, but is that what the market needs? A new report holds results that indicate new growth in demand from China and a bright future for electric vehicle component suppliers.

Touted when first announced in January of 2010 as “likely to create hundreds of jobs”, the world’s largest wood pellet plant – a joint effort between German firm RWE Innogy (ETR:RWE) and Swedish firm BMC – cost $170 million to build and occupies about 300 acres in the Waycross (Georgia) Industrial Park. RWE Innogy delivers renewable energy in Europe. BMC is a project and technology development company vested in wood-based biomass.   

Former Vice President Al Gore claims in a recent blog post that the failure of the U.S. Senate to pass legislation to curb greenhouse gases (like the American Power Act) is already costing the country billions of dollars.

A new study from the Carnegie Institution For Science reveals the scope of how industrialized countries are reducing their own carbon emissions by outsourcing work to developing nations.

After two unsuccessful bids to buy Europe's beleaguered Dutch-Belgian Fortis Bank NV, Paris-based corporate and investment banking behemoth BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP), France's largest bank by market value, recently sealed a deal to acquire a controlling interest in the once-storied fin