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Charlotte ranks No. 20 among 43 U.S. metro areas in a study of the nation’s “green cities.”

Local drivers continue to see gas prices go up this week as stations charge 3.3 cents per gallon more for gas, according to BirminghamGasPrices.com.

Gas prices Sunday were up 4 cents from the previous Sunday in Philadelphia and its Pennsylvania suburbs, the AAA Mid-Atlantic automotive organization said Monday.

Nearly a year after setting up its offshore division in Houston, Devon Energy Corp. has started staff cuts after announcing it would divest the division. (DVN)

Dominion, Virginia's biggest power utility, plans to sell its natural gas and oil exploration and production business to Consol Energy Inc. for $3.48 billion. (CNX) (D)

Anheuser-Busch InBev announced plans Monday to boost recycling and become the “most water-efficient” global brewer in the world.

The United States continues to be too dependent on foreign oil imports, even as the economy has weakened demand, T. Boone Pickens said Monday.

Robert Stempel, who was General Motors Corp. chairman and CEO in the early 1990s, has joined the board of Genesis Fluid Solutions Holdings Inc., the Colorado company said Monday.

Beacon Power Corp., a developer of energy delivery and maintenance technologies, said its recurring losses and negative cash flow have prompted its auditor to “raise substantial doubt” about its ability to remain a going concern.

Evergreen Energy Inc. has reached an agreement to sell assets of its Buckeye Industrial Mining Co. subsidiary and says it no longer plans to spin off its K-Fuel operations.

The pending $5 billion merger between Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE:BHI) and BJ Services Co. (NYSE:BJS) has a hurdle to overcome as part of a review of the deal by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. (BHI) (BJS) (BJS) (BHI)

Analysts at rothmanresearch.com, an online investment advisory firm, say Valero Energy Corp. has adapted global corporate strategies that will help it stay afloat during the current hard times in the oil industry. (VLO)

Petrohawk Energy Corp. has found a buyer for its interest in Terryville Field, located in Lincoln and Claiborne Parishes, La. (HK)

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. is planning to open a regional headquarters in Paris. (DRC)

CONSOL Energy Inc. will buy the Appalachian exploration and production arm of Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. for $3.5 billion, the Cecil-based company announced Monday. (CNX)

Gas prices in Denver are up again for another week, with a gallon of regular gas now 16 cents higher than last month, according to the American Automobile Association’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report.

An historic contract was signed March 11 on Ted Turner’s ranch in New Mexico. (SO)

RF Micro Devices has manufactured the industry's first photovoltaic cell using high-volume six-inch gallium arsenide or GaAs machinery, according to an announcement from the firm.

Fuel prices in Georgia are up 5 cents a gallon, according to AAA Auto Club South.

The price of gas is creeping ever closer to the $3-a-gallon mark, with the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.84 in Florida. That’s up from $2.79 a week ago and 87 cents more than this time last year.