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US DOE to Find 13 Solar Energy Projects to the Tune of $168m |
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
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(Azom.com) -- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today announced the selection of 13
industry-led solar technology development projects for negotiation for
up to $168 million (FY’07-’09) in funding, subject to appropriation
from Congress. These projects will help significantly reduce the cost
of producing and distributing solar energy.
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European Leaders Agree on Energy Plan |
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (StarTribune.net) -- Europe embarked on a bold
path to fight climate change Friday, agreeing that a fifth of the
energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable
sources like the sun and the wind, and challenging the rest of the
world to follow.
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Forestry Sector has Growing Role in Combating Climate Change, Says Minister |
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
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(The Age) -- VICTORIA'S forest industry will play a big role in the State
Government's climate change and greenhouse policy, according to the
Minister for Agriculture, Joe Helper.
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Polar Bears,the Poster Animals of Climate Change |
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
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(Taipei Times) -- Not so long ago polar bears were a symbol of cold, but these days they
are a symbol of warmth. In the past few weeks it has become difficult
to open a newspaper or web page without seeing photographs of the
beautiful yellowy-white animals leaping, or lying on sea ice in the
Arctic, the newly helpless emblem of climate change. The traditional
threats to the polar bear — hunting, toxic waste, offshore drilling —
have been overshadowed by a new one: the ice around them is melting,
and we are to blame.
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
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(Worldpress.org) -- Al Gore may have won an Oscar for his vision of impending doom (unless
we mend our carbon-emitting ways) in "An Inconvenient Truth," but
February was anything but a good month for Gore's brand of global
warming alarmism.
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TXU Announces Plans for 2 Coal Plants Designed to Be Cleaner-Burning |
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
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HOUSTON,TX (NY Times) -- The TXU Corporation
announced on Friday that it was making plans to build two power plants
in Texas that would use advanced technology intended to capture carbon
dioxide before it escapes into the atmosphere.
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British Push on CO2 at Security Council |
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- The British government is considering putting climate change on to the
agenda of the UN security council for the first time to underline the
urgency of the issue.
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Solar Energy has Power to Reduce Greenhouse Gases |
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
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NEW YORK (Daily News & Analysis) -- Solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and
provide increased energy efficiency, scientists say in a report
sponsored by the US Department of Energy.
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Memos Tell Officials How to Discuss Climate |
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
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(NY Times) -- Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or other employees traveling in countries around the Arctic not to discuss climate change, polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated to do so.
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U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions |
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
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(NY Times) -- The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming
will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the
previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for
the United Nations.
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- It sits pretty, with fake leopard-skin livery, in the middle of one of
the main halls at the annual international motor show, surrounded by
the latest sleek and powerful products of the global auto industry.
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Global impact of Asia's pollution |
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
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(BBCNews) Industrial pollution coming from Asia is having a
wider effect on global weather and climate than previously realised,
research suggests. The "Asian haze" of soot is boosting storms in the Pacific, scientists find. It is also enhancing the growth of large clouds, which play a key role in regulating climate globally.
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EU wants tech institute to fight climate change |
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
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(theparliament.com) European commission president José Manuel Barroso today linked the
proposed European Institute of Technology to the debate on global
warming.Speaking in Brussels after a meeting with an advisory panel of
energy and climate change experts, Barroso said the EU will need to
pool research if it wants to achieve the technological breakthroughs
necessary to tackle global warming.
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UK plans to cut CO2 doomed to fail - scientists |
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Monday, 05 March 2007 |
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(The Guardian)
-- An independent scientific audit of the UK's climate change policies
predicts that the government will fall well below its target of a 30%
reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 -- which means that the
country will not reach its 2020 milestone until 2050.
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Chinese premier calls for fairer, greener economy |
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Monday, 05 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- China's premier, Wen Jiabao, opened the annual session of the country's
parliament today with a call for the country's breakneck economic
growth to be balanced with environmental protection and efforts to
tackle a growing urban-rural wealth gap.
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Ban Wants U.S. to Debate Climate Change |
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Sunday, 04 March 2007 |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) --
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Thursday that the
"active debate" in the U.S. administration and Congress
on global warming will spur the United States to take a leadership
role in combatting climate change.
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Oil Prices Rise As Demand Worries Fade |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices rebounded to another two-month high Wednesday, as traders brushed off Tuesday's stock market plunge and refocused on declining product inventories.
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Group: Global Warming Effects Hunting |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory (AP) -- Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures. All his gear plunged into the water too, leaving him stranded for two days. He now walks - and still hunts - with prosthetic feet, and believes God kept him alive to warn the world about global warming.
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London Announces Plan to Cut Emissions |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
LONDON (AP) -- The mayor of London on Tuesday announced the city's first comprehensive plan to cut carbon emissions, stressing that global warming must be tackled locally.
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Scientists Offer Climate Plan to U.N. |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.
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Ahmadinejad: Iran Won't End Nuke Program |
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Sunday, 25 February 2007 |
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his country's disputed nuclear program was like a train without brakes or a reverse gear, prompting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to respond that Iran needs "a stop button."
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Oil Prices Rise Above $61 Per Barrel |
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Saturday, 24 February 2007 |
NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices reached a new high for the year during a volatile session Friday, driven by tensions with oil-producing Iran and expectations of continued pressure on U.S. petroleum product supplies.
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EU Backs Target to Cut CO2 Emissions |
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Tuesday, 20 February 2007 |
BRUSSELS, Belgium ( AP) -- European Union environment ministers said Tuesday they would cut overall carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent from 1990 levels by the year 2020, adding that they were ready to go to 30 percent if other industrialized nations matched their efforts.
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Australia to Ban Old-Style Light Bulbs |
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Tuesday, 20 February 2007 |
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- The Australian government on Tuesday announced plans to phase out incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs across the country. Legislation to gradually restrict the sale of the old-style bulbs could reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tons by 2012 and cut household power bills by up to 66 percent, said Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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Oil prices nudge higher ahead of US data |
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil rose 0.4 percent, back toward $63 a barrel, on Wednesday ahead of US figures that are expected to show a fall in heating fuel stocks in the world's top consumer.
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Oil Prices Rise on Weather, OPEC Worries |
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Oil prices edged higher Tuesday as traders weighed forecasts calling for mild U.S. weather next week against anticipated further production cuts by OPEC.
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Brazil Protects Great Swath of Amazon |
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 |
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.
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Alps Are Warmest in 1,300 Years |
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 |
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Europe's Alpine region is going through its warmest period in 1,300 years, the head of an extensive climate study said Tuesday.
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Canada's Dion Says He'll Honor Kyoto |
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Sunday, 03 December 2006 |
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TORONTO (AP) -- The new leader of Canada's Liberal Party pledged Sunday to honor the country's commitment to the Kyoto protocol if he unseats Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an election expected next year.
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Bush May End Drilling Ban in Alaskan Bay |
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Sunday, 03 December 2006 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to endangered whales and sea lions and the world's largest sockeye salmon run.
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