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Ritter Will Sign Bill to Double Renewable Energy |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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DENVER (AP) -- Over two years after voters required that
utilities get 10 percent of their power from renewable sources,
Colorado is poised to double that requirement.
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Gore Gets Signatures for Climate Change |
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore has collected
nearly 300,000 electronic signatures asking Congress to take action on
global warming, Gore said in an entry on his Web site Friday. Gore said
the signatures demonstrate "that hundreds of thousands of people share
my sense of urgency" on climate change. Gore is scheduled to testify
before Congress about the issue Wednesday.
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Britain Could Be First Country to Put Legal Limits on Carbon Emissions |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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(The Guardian) -- Plans to make Britain the first country in the world to set legally
binding limits on its carbon pollution were announced yesterday when
ministers unveiled their draft climate change bill.
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China's Pollution Cuts Local Rain |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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(BBC News) -- Pollution from China's factories and vehicles is significantly reducing rainfall in hilly areas of the country.
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N.H. Towns Send Climate-Change Message to Presidentials |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire voters are sending a message to the
presidential candidates who routinely visit the state: Do something
about global warming.
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Climate Crisis Action Day - March 20, 2007 |
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
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(Media-Newswire.com) -- Congressional Democrats are
pressing ahead with legislation to address global warming despite
uncertainty over where the White House stands on specific issues.
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Climate Laws Depend on Bush Help |
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
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WASHINGTON (Time) -- Democrats running Congress will likely not be able to pass
climate legislation with mandatory limits on "greenhouse" gases without
help from President Bush, the chairman of the Senate's energy panel
said Monday.
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Biofuels Boom: Ethanol Not Exactly an Energy Cure-All |
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
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(Tulsa World) -- Farmers in the Midwest are
sending billions of bushels of corn to refineries that turn it into
billions of gallons of fuel. Automakers in Detroit have already built
millions of cars, trucks and SUVs that can run on it, and are committed
to making millions more. In Washington, politicians have approved
generous subsidies for companies that make ethanol.
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With Coal Plans Cut Back, Texas Faces Energy Gap |
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
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HOUSTON, TX (NY Times) -- Texas,
as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields
dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind
power producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the
country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the
biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
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10,000 Acres of Greenbelt under Threat |
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
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(Guardian Unlimited) -- The Queen, British Aerospace and BP will make billions of pounds from
developing the greenbelt under proposals to meet government housing
targets. Research by the Guardian and the Campaign to Protect Rural
England shows at least 10,000 acres of greenbelt land are likely to be
sacrificed to build some of the biggest developments in Britain in the
past 30 years.
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Climate is Big Issue for U.S. Hunters, Anglers |
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 |
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CULEBRA CREEK, COLO (Monsters & Critics) -- As the snow melts from the towering peaks in the
distance, Culebra Creek runs fast and the trout are biting. But Van
Beecham, a fourth generation fishing guide, is uneasy.
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Climate of hope: Cities lead the way |
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
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(BBCNews) Seattle mayor Greg Nickels is hopeful that the US
will soon join the global effort to tackle climate change. Building on
comments he made in the BBC News website's Have Your Say pages, Mr
Nickels says more than 400 US mayors are committed to curbing emissions
- something the White House has so far refused to do.
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Madison utility expands renewable energy pricing program |
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Tuesday, 06 March 2007 |
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Madison utility is planning to expand its renewable energy pricing program. Madison Gas and Electric says its responding to growing concern about global warming in tripling the size of the program. The green power program allows customers to pay extra on their
monthly electric bill to support development of renewable energy
sources -- like wind turbines and solar panels. The utility has new wind power projects coming on line early next
year, which will triple the amount of green power available to
customers who pay extra.
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US CO2 emissions 'violate rights' |
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Sunday, 04 March 2007 |
(BBC) -- A delegation of Inuit has travelled to Washington to
argue that the US government's climate change policies violate human
rights.
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Proven Fuel Stabilizing Device Cuts Building Heating Costs 30% or More |
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
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Little Falls, NJ (PRWEB)
October 6, 2007 -- An innovative, in-line, fuel stabilization device
exclusively represented by The Energy Group can cut operating costs in
boilers by 10 to 30 percent or more. Dubbed simply, "The Fossil Fuel
Stabilizer," the device recently completed three years of successful
operation on heating boilers at a government facility in New Jersey
funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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Tapping tidal energy: the wave of the future |
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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( Seattle Times ) -- The future of clean power in the Northwest may look like the
75-foot-tall yellow buoy now bobbing like a cork in the waves off the
Oregon coast.
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Eltek Valere works on cutting the energy lost at power converters |
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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(Dallas Morning News) -- To say that
most Americans ignore power conversion boxes would be overstating their
impact. Most of us never even notice those drab metal fixtures that
drive global telecommunications. But
with energy costs and environmental concerns skyrocketing,
power-conscious customers are downright captivated by a new company in
Richardson.
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
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(Science News ) The two reactors at the South Texas nuclear power plant, an hour
southwest of Houston, last year churned out 21.37 billion
kilowatt-hours. By 2015, its majority owner, New Jersey-based NRG
Energy, hopes to at least double that capacity if it gets permission to
build two more reactors on the site. The company filed the first
application on Monday for a new nuclear power plant—two advanced boiling-water reactors—in more than 30 years.
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Swiss Name Toyota's Prius the World's Greenest Car |
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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(Reuters ) -- Switzerland, renowned for its clean
Alpine air and pristine ski slopes, has named Toyota's Prius
the world's greenest car.
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Future Energy That Generates Profits Today |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
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(NY Times ) -- Alternative energy is considered to be good for the environment and
good for the soul, but not so good as a way to make money. Generating
power from renewable sources like wind, the sun and the earth’s own
heat has a reputation for being unprofitable without government
subsidies or sky-high energy prices.
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Governments Push Developers to Go Green |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
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(Wahington Bureau ) -- Next spring, the Washington Nationals will take the field in the first
baseball stadium to meet energy efficiency and environmental standards
developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Explaining a Solar Energy Paradox |
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Monday, 16 July 2007 |
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(NY Times ) -- Even as companies in China, Germany, Japan and the United States churn
out silicon photovoltaic cells — which convert sunlight into
electricity — at a blazing and accelerating rate, many experts have
become convinced, paradoxically it would seem, that the technology is
an also-ran, at least as far as global climate change goes.
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Boeing Unveils Dreamliner Plane |
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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(BBC News ) -- It is the only big commercial aircraft made mostly of
carbon fibre rather than aluminium and is billed as the most
environmentally friendly ever built.
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
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(Petroleumworld ) -- Billions of dollars, euros, pounds, and reais are pouring into biofuels.
High fuel prices and generous regulatory support
have given the industry healthy margins and relatively short
investment payback times. Meanwhile, the triumphs of the first
movers and dreams of future growth are enticing companies in
industries from petroleum and agribusiness to biotechnology,
chemicals, engineering, and financial services.
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U.S. Is Creating 3 Centers for Research on Biofuels |
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
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(NY Times ) -- The Energy Department is creating three bioenergy research centers to find new ways to turn plants into fuel.
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Energy Awards $4M for Wind Research |
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
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(AP ) -- The Energy Department announced Monday it will provide $4
million to two projects in Texas and Massachusetts for research into designing
and building the next generation of large wind turbine blades.
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Office Technology: Biggest Energy Waster for Businesses |
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
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(Workplace Law Network ) -- PCs are said to be one of the biggest contributors to an organisation’s carbon footprint.
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UW-Madison Engineers Develop Higher-Energy Liquid-Transportation Fuel from Sugar |
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
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(Media-Newswire.com ) -- Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the
air and combine it with water molecules and sunshine to make
carbohydrate or sugar. Variations on this process provide fuel for all
of life on Earth.
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Need for Clean and Environment-friendly Power Boosts the European Cogeneration Equipment Market |
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
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(Newswire ) -- The
Western European energy market, beleaguered by increasing oil prices,
threats of climate change and greater dependence on fuel imports, has
turned to cogeneration for a long-term solution to all these issues.
But what exactly is cogeneration? It is combined heat and power (CHP)
and implies the use of a heat engine or a power station to
simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat.
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Technology Group Seeks to Save Power |
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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MOUNTAIN VIEW (NY Times ) -- Google and Intel
are leading a consortium of major technology companies in an effort to
sharply reduce the amount of power wasted by personal computers and
servers.
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