SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Friday that the United States needs to come up with a better system for storing or disposing of radioactive nuclear waste than a planned repository near Las Vegas. "The president has made it very clear that we are going to go beyond Yucca mountain. You should go beyond ...

A group of Democratic senators urged the Obama administration to suspend an economic stimulus program aimed at financing renewable energy, complaining that money is going to projects that are creating jobs in foreign countries. "We can't jump-start our economy and pull ourselves out of this recession ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has always focused on the supply, disposition and operational aspects of petroleum. Now, with gas prices remaining stubbornly high despite ample supplies and light demand, DOE appears to be looking more closely at the influence of money flowing in and out of the oil market ...