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New Public Agenda Energy Learning Curve Finds Public Worried and Unrealistic, Posing Challenges for Leadership NEW YORK , April 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite partisan debate, the American people find common ground on their support for a number of measures to address the nation's energy problems.

INDONESIA'S President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, yesterday backed away from longstanding and highly controversial plans to build a nuclear reactor in one of the world's most seismically active countries, saying it would instead develop existing energy sources and explore renewable alternatives before pursuing the nuclear option.

A federal judge in Oklahoma City is granting class-action status to a $27 million lawsuit that accuses a Houston energy company of shortchanging royalty owners.

At the Cleveland Indians home opener on April 10 crowds can expect to hear super fan John Adams pound away on a bass drum in left center field as he has in virtually every home game since 1973. Over by the first base side of the field--and commanding a bit less attention--game- goers may also notice another distinguishing feature at Cleveland's Progressive Field: an upper deck solar panel array. The Indians were the first American League team to install an alt-energy power source in 2007, making it a member of the growing number of ball clubs whose stadiums are going green. [More] Presented By:Inside Guantanamo: Sunday at 9P e/pGuantanamo Bay is one of the world's controversial prisons. This may be its final chapter. With unprecedented access, National Geographic has the story you haven't heard. Both sides, told from the inside, before its doors close forever. Click to learn more and go Inside Guantanamo >>natgeotv.com/guantanamo Ads by Pheedo

Saudi newspaper Al Watan has reported that a 250,000 bpd expansion by SNC-Lavalin, a Canadian engineering firm, to boost output from the Shaybah oilfield by 50% has been delayed until the global economy improves. Pietro Tali, CEO of Italian oilfield services group Saipem, meanwhile told Reuters that even if Aramco agrees to an amended contract to develop the Manifa oilfield, the project was likely to be delayed by 12 to 18 months. [AMEInfo.com]

London, April 5 : People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the animal rights group famous for its 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur' campaigns, has come under fire for killing animals at its US headquarters.

President Barack Obama emerged from this year's congressional budget debate with a half-victory: a green light to pursue an overhaul of health care, accompanied by a rebuke over how to pay for it.Obama's plan to tackle global warming fared worse. Nine Democratic senators broke with him on a symbolic but politically resonant vote to cut inheritance taxes.In short, Obama's Democratic allies embraced providing health care to the uninsured, boosting education and promoting clean energy. But the second part of the equation _ finding billions of dollars to finance his agenda without further exploding the deficit _ suffered repeated setbacks in the Senate.

Excess amounts of a naturally fluorescent molecule found in all living cells could serve as a natural biomarker for cancer, according to bioengineers. NADH, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, is a key coenzyme -- a non-protein molecule necessary for the functioning of an enzyme -- found mostly in the inner membrane of a cell's power plant, or mitochondria. It fuels a series of biochemical reactions that involve various enzymes to produce ATP, the major energy source in cells.