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Evergreen shifts work to China

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Erin Ailworth - Nov. 07 (News Report) - Little more than a year after cutting the ribbon at a new factory in Devens built with more than $58 million in state aid, Evergreen Solar said yesterday that it will shift its assembly of solar panels from there to China.

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The Greenest Place in the U.S. May Not Be Where You Think

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Yale Environment 360 - By David Owen - Nov. 05 (Special Report) - Green rankings in the U.S. don’t tell the full story about the places where the human footprint is lightest. If you really want the best environmental model, you need to look at the nation’s biggest — and greenest — metropolis: New York City.

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Clever 'chopped' cars promise cheap electric commuting

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Tom Simonite - Oct. 30 (Special Report) - Clever 'chopped' cars promise cheap electric commuting

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No Deal: Chamber Chief Battles Obama Agenda

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Stephen Power - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is working to defeat Obama on many of his top issues, sparking a furious reaction from the White House.

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Senate Climate Markup Set for Tuesday but Will Any Republicans Show?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Darren Samuelson - Oct. 30 (News) - But Boxer cannot hold the markup unless at least two Republicans show up, and EPW ranking member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) signaled that he has unanimous support among the panel's minority members to boycott the session until they get more data on the legislation from U.S. EPA and the Congressional Budget Office.

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China steps up, slowly but surely, to address emissions issue

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Steven Mufson - Oct. 24 (Special Report) - In a large greenhouse, hundreds of tubes hold strains of algae being tested for how much carbon dioxide they can suck from the air. Outside, half a dozen brands of solar panels are being matched for performance against the company's own. Next door,

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Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Dina Cappiello - Oct. 23 (News Report) - At the same time, there has been mounting scientific evidence of climate change — from melting ice caps to the world's oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer.

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Scientists: Biofuel Laws May Harm Environment

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

wbur.org - By Richard Harris - Oct. 23 (News Report) - One key part of the climate bill has to do with fuels made from green plants. These can reduce the use of fossil fuels, and they also are a big draw for farm-state votes. But scientists writing in the current issue of Science magazine point out a huge error in existing biofuel laws that could actually make climate change worse. They say these rules inadvertently encourage deforestation, which in turn contributes to global warming.

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Trade Your Job

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Valerie Saturen - Oct. 22 (News) - high school students who aren't headed for college are learning to retrofit houses; they stand to make up to $50 an hour once they're experienced journeymen. In Lansing, Michigan, unemployed auto workers can get up to $10,000 to train for new careers in renewable energy. .read more

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Top Official: 'The EPA Is Back On The Job'

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Lisa Jackson says the Environmental Protection Agency under President Bush concluded greenhouse gases were dangerous, but the White House refused to regulate them. Now that President Obama is in office, she says, the agency is going to take action.

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Lindsey Graham: Not a Nuclear Wussypants

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Oct. 16 (News Report) - When Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called for legislation last week to cap carbon emissions, he revived hopes that a cap-and-trade measure could pass the Senate this year. (He also got branded a "wussypants" by tea party protesters for his trouble.) But

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Tea-Party Activists Complicate GOP Comeback

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Naftali Bendavid - Oct. 16 (News Report) - The rise of conservative "tea party" activists around the country has created a dilemma for Republicans.

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Rabbits Deposit Radioactive Clues on the Landscape

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - The Hanford site, overseen by the federal Department of Energy, produced roughly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal, beginning in World War II and ending in the 1980s. Today it is the focus of the nation’s largest environmental cleanup, an effort that has cost tens of billions of dollars and is expected to continue for decades.

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Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Rosenthal - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - The price of a climate agreement will be $100 billion a year by 2020, many economists estimate; some put the cost at closer to $1 trillion.

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Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Oct. 11 (Special Report) - America is not going to bleed its wealth importing fuel. Russia's grip on Europe's gas will weaken. Improvident Britain may avoid paralysing blackouts by mid-decade after all. The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those

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Smart grids: Clever, but unprincipled

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - The technology is not inherently frugal or green. It can be used to deliver not just clean renewable energy more efficiently, but also the grubby coal-fired sort. By reducing the need for expensive backup capacity, it may actually reduce the cost of electricity, and so encourage consumption. The very fact that utilities and their customers, tree-huggers and industrialists alike are all keen on it hints at the many different ends to which it can be turned.

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Obama uses L.A. program as a model for going green -

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Jim Tankersley - Oct. 06 (News) - Urging the government to "lead by example," President Obama ordered federal agencies on Monday to set ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut energy use, save water and recycle more...The measures echo a Los Angeles sustainability program launched under the direction of then-Deputy Mayor Nancy Sutley, who now heads the White House Council on Environmental Quality...Sutley said the initiative builds on the experience of Green LA, a 2007 program to reduce Los Angeles' greenhouse gas emissions by 35% by 2030. That program includes measures such as strict efficiency standards in building codes and drawing power from renewable-energy sources.

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Wind power? It's an offshore thing

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Terry Macalister - Oct. 05 (News Report) - For offshore wind to thrive, certainly without state support, there needs to be a lot of technological innovation. That is why Clipper, Siemens and others are working flat out to find ways to cut operating costs. There is also a need for investors. The green energy sector has been hit harder than most by the credit crunch, with stocks seen as speculative and uncertain.

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Will California become America's first failed state?

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Paul Harris - Oct. 04 (News) - California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so catastrophically wrong? California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of sunshine, swimming pools and the Hollywood dream factory. But the state that was once held up as the epitome of the boundless opportunities of America has collapsed. From its politics to its economy to its environment and way of life, California is like a patient on life support. At the start of summer the state government was so ...

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EPA Moves To Regulate Smokestack Greenhouse Gases

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Morning Edition - By Elizabeth Shogren - Oct. 01 (News Report) - The Obama administration recently proposed new rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions from cars. Now it's proposing to reduce heat-trapping pollution from power plants and other large facilities.

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The Coalfield Uprising

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Jeff Biggers - Oct. 01 (Special Report) - ...while officials are framing the issue as a manageable environmental problem, mountaintop removal has also caused....one of th largest displacements of US citizens since the nineteenth century... .

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Supermarkets get cold feet over fridge doors

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Fred Pearce - Oct. 01 (News Analysis) - What's the biggest and easiest thing that supermarkets could do to cut their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint? They all know the answer. Put doors on their fridges.

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G-20 leaders to pledge to end subsidies for fossil fuels

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Jim Tankersley - Sep. 26 (News Report) - World leaders at the Group of 20 summit pledged to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels in the "medium term" Friday, a nebulous goal that the leaders nevertheless said could make a noticeable dent in global warming.

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Build a Better Bulb, Win $10 Million

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ERIC A. TAUB, LEORA BROYDO VESTEL - Sep. 25 (News Report) - The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb badly needs a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first company that figures out how to do it.

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Crucial time for climate debate

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Jim Tankersley - Sep. 21 (News Analysis) - With divisions remaining among the major industrialized nations, as well as with developing industrial powers and poorer nations, there is concern that negotiations could be bogging down. Obama administration officials, while acknowledging the seriousness of the challenges, continue to hold out hope for a deal.

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