...to invest in hydro projects in a dying region. Not every hydropower-rich place in the world takes such a blinkered view. Oil and gas-rich Norway with a population of 5 million gets 99 percent of its electricity from 850 hydro plants - and uses...

...Salazar said he will meet with major oil company executives on Thursday to reassure them that the Obama administration views oil as important to the country's energy future. "My message to the oil companies will be simple. They are and will remain...