1. KEYSTONE XL:
Enviros seize on State's pipeline alternatives
Environmental activists are ratcheting up their rhetoric against the Keystone XL pipeline, charging that a State Department report on the controversial project released Friday is woefully inadequate and erroneously minimizes the climate change impacts of Canadian oil sands.
2. EXPLORATION:
Asian island nation launches bid in U.S. to become a player among oil, gas producers
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- It may be small in the grand scheme of global energy. It could even prove to be a bust. But for Sri Lanka, its bid to break into the world of hydrocarbon producers is huge. It is another marker for a country emerging from a dark age of civil war.
