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UPDATE 1-Marathon Oil joins $7.5 billion oil and gas equity wave

HOUSTON, March 1 (Reuters) - Energy companies are dominating this year's U.S. corporate share sales, raising $7.5 billion so far this year, with Marathon Oil Corp the latest to tap the market to bolster balance sheets to weather the volatile price of oil.

GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks see biggest gains since January, dollar rises after U.S. data

* Dollar index rises to one-month high (Updates data, prices, adds quote)

UPDATE 1-Brazil's No. 2 builder admits illegal Rousseff campaign funding - paper

SAO PAULO, March 1 (Reuters) - Executives from Brazil's second-largest engineering company, Andrade Gutierrez, have testified that the company paid suppliers for President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 electoral campaign off the books, newspaper a Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday.

Another blast at Severstal's mine in Arctic, no one hurt - reports

MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Russia's Emergency Ministry said on Tuesday that another explosion had occurred in a coal mine inside the Arctic Circle where 26 died last week, but this time no one was hurt, Russian news agencies reported.

DOE Announces Wave Energy Prize Finalists

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that nine teams have been named finalists in the Wave Energy Prize -- a 20-month design-build-test competition -- and will proceed to the next phase of the competition.

Grading 2016 US Presidential Candidates on Renewable Energy Policies

Renewable energy is a particularly hot issue in this year’s presidential election. At the end of 2015, the U.S. joined 195 other nations in signing a UN agreement that committed to an aggressive climate change reduction strategy.  

Executives of Brazil's No. 2 building company say it paid Rousseff campaign suppliers -paper

SAO PAULO, March 1 (Reuters) - Executives from Brazil's second-largest building company Andrade Gutierrez have testified to prosecutors that the company paid suppliers for President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 electoral campaign, newspaper a Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday.

INSIGHT-Future of U.S. solar threatened in nationwide fight over incentives

Los Angeles March 1 (Reuters) - Two sun-drenched U.S. states have lately come to very different conclusions on a controversial solar power incentive essential to the industry's growth.

UPDATE 2-Russian oil bosses voice support for oil output freeze, not cut

* Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Venezuela agree on oil output freeze

4 Reasons States and Utilities Should Continue Reducing Power Emissions, Despite Clean Power Plan Stay

On February 9, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted implementation of the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP, which aims to reduce states’ power sector emissions, is being challenged in the D.C. Circuit appeals court by a number of states, corporations and industry groups. Importantly, this “stay” was not a ruling on the merits of the CPP; the D.C. Circuit court will hear arguments on the merits of the case on June 2nd.

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