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Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By John Flesher - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands. For centuries, forests have provided

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Tax credits eyed for solar energy firms amid Obama’s push for ‘green jobs’

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Ben Geman - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Solar energy companies are lobbying for new tax credits for domestic manufacturers that would come on top of subsidies included in the $787 billion stimulus package enacted earlier this year. Solar energy companies are lobbying for new tax credits for domestic manufacturers that would come on top of subsidies included in the $787 billion stimulus package enacted earlier this year.

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Paying Extra for Green Power, and Getting Ads Instead

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Kate Galbraith - Nov. 17 (News Report) - The solicitations have been flooding people’s mailboxes lately: pay a bit more on your electricity bill for 100 percent clean wind power. Or, the fliers say, buy “green power certificates” to offset your global warming emissions.

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China Solar Panel Maker Sets First U.S. Plant

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Business Week - By Adam Aston - Nov. 16 (News Report) - China's Suntech Power Holdings (STP) is no newcomer to the U.S. Last May, President Barack Obama toured the U.S.'s largest solar panel installation at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. There, row upon row of shiny black Suntech solar panels span 140 acres, cranking out up to 14 megawatts of electricity on sunny days.

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Nuclear scars: Tainted water runs beneath Nevada desert

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Ralph Vartabedian - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - In a study for Nye County, where the nuclear test site lies, Buqo estimated that the underground tests polluted 1.6 trillion gallons of water. That is as much water as Nevada is allowed to withdraw from the Colorado River in 16 years -- enough to fill a lake 300 miles long, a mile wide and 25 feet deep.

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Scientists: Nuke panel owes Utahns an apology

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Judy Fahys - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Three scientists say federal nuclear regulators owe Utahns an apology -- and a policy change -- for allowing shallow burial of depleted uranium, including the 49,000 tons already at EnergySolutions Inc.'s landfill in Tooele County.

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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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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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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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Energy Firms Deeply Split on Bill to Battle Climate Change

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John Broder, Jad Mouawad - Oct. 19 (News Report) - The nation’s energy producers are splintering into competing camps battling over policy decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades.

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Beijing’s Air Is Steadily Getting Cleaner, but the War Is Far From Won

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

New York Times - By Michael Wines - Oct. 18 (News Report) - After tough measures by Chinese authorities to curb emissions, the trend toward clearer skies in Beijing — one of the most polluted cities in the world — is steady and undeniable.

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Clean-Tech, Energy Lobbyists Push for Climate Bill

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

New York Times - By Joel Kirkland, Christa Marshal - Oct. 08 (News Report) - Climate advocates argued their case as concern mounts about the U.S. bargaining position in Copenhagen this December, where nations will negotiate a post-2012 global warming pact. In their effort to sell the need for congressional action this year to senators from states hard hit by the beleaguered manufacturing sector, they hit a single message: jobs, jobs, jobs.

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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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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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First Look at the Microsoft Zune HD

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ginny Mies, PC World - Sep. 15 (Breaking News) - HD Video, an OLED multitouch display and a slick design are just a few of Zune HD’s hot features.

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Green policies: Sacre vert!

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Sep. 12 (News Analysis) - WHAT is small, French and green? President Nicolas Sarkozy, who proposed on Thursday September 10th a tax on carbon-emitting sources of fuel. If it goes ahead, 17 euros ($25) will be levied, initially, per tonne of carbon dioxide. Although France would not be the first country with a general carbon tax—Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway already have them—it would be the largest economy yet.

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White House Says Little About Embattled Jones

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Garance Franke-Ruta, Anne E. Kornblut - Sep. 05 (News Report) - White House officials offered tepid support Friday for Van Jones, the administration’s embattled energy efficiency guru, who has issued two public apologies this week, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials ’may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to ha...

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The electrification of motoring: The electric-fuel-trade acid test

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Sep. 03 (Special Report) - Internal-combustion engines have dominated mechanised road transport for a century, but the past year or so has seen the arrival of a dribble of vehicles driven by electric motors. That these are the products of small, new firms, or of established non-carmaking companies, supports the Bower-Christensen thesis. But next year the big boys, encouraged by legislative pressure to produce low-emission vehicles, will leap out of the boiling water and join in. Their progress towards greenery will be an important theme of the Frankfurt motor show this month.

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Indian children crippled by uranium

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Gethin Chamberlain - Aug. 30 (News Report) - Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it appears that India would rather the world did not see, the victims of a scandal with potential implications far beyond the country?s borders. Some sit mutely, staring into space, lost in a world of their own; others cry out, rocking backwards and forwards. Few have any real control over their own bodies. Their anxious parents fret over them, murmuring soft words of encouragement, hoping for some sort of miracle that ...

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Key points still debated regarding California renewable energy goals

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Marc Lifsher - Aug. 29 (News Report) - Environmentalists, unions and utilities seem to accept the governor?s goal of getting a third of electricity from renewable sources. They just differ on how to get there. At the State Capitol, boosting the use of solar power, wind generators and other renewable energy sources is seen as a boon for both the environment and the economy in electricity-hungry ...

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‘Clunkers’ effect on pollution? A blip

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 05 (News Report) - "Cash for clunkers" could have the same effect on global warming pollution as shutting down the entire country for an hour per year. Climate experts aren?t impressed. ...

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'Organic has no health benefits'

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 29 (News Report) - Organic food is no healthier than conventionally produced food, a large independent review has concluded.

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