The US Coast Guard has successfully completed a controlled burn of a portion of the oil slick off the Gulf Coast.

Tax increases could add another 10 cents a litre to the price of petrol by the end of the year, says the AA.

Elderly people are searching out petrol stations that will fill their tanks for them as health and safety rules take the service out of service stations.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has withdrawn his support for a plan to expand oil drilling off California, citing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Class action lawsuits have been filed against BP and contractor Halliburton as a vast oil spill threatens the US coast.

The Government is unlikely to follow through with the ETS as scheduled beyond 2013 unless its major trading partners do the same.

The Australian govt is shelving plans to start its ETS for at least three years, but the NZ Government says it has no plans to delay the scheme here.