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Study Says Mich. Climate Plan Would Boost Economy
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January 4, 2010 - ABC News
| | Michigan could gain a significant economic boost and thousands of new jobs by reducing emissions of gases that cause climate change, according to an analysis released Monday. The report by the Center for Climate Strategies said a plan devised last year for battling global warming in Michigan would help limit the state's heat-trapping gas emissions over the next 15 years. But more than the environment would benefit, the nonprofit group said. It projected gains of 129,000 jobs, a $25 billion uptick in the gross state product and lower prices for home energy sources such as electricity, oil and natural gas.
| | | By John Flesher © 2010 The Associated Press © 2010 ABC News Internet Ventures
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Bad Year For Biofuel Ends On A Dour Note
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January 1, 2010 - CBS News
| | Oklahoma City -- A federal tax credit that provided makers of biodiesel $1 for every gallon expired Friday. As a result, some U.S. producers say they will shut down without the government subsidy.
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EPA Questions New York State Plan to Drill for Shale Gas
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December 31, 2009 - Scientific American
| | Philadelphia -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has "serious reservations" about allowing shale gas drilling in New York City's watershed, warning of a threat to the drinking water for 9 million people.
| | | By Jon Hurdle © 2009 Reuters © 2009 Nature America, Inc.
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Climate Talks End with Eye on Next Year
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December 19, 2009 - Yahoo! News
| | Copenhagen -- A historic U.N. climate conference ended Saturday with only a nonbinding "Copenhagen Accord" to show for two weeks of debate and frustration. It was a deal short on concrete steps against global warming, but signaling a new start for rich-poor cooperation on climate change.
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Hawaii in Early Stages of Energy Revolution
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December 18, 2009 - CNN
| | Hawaii already is in the early stages of what it hopes will be an energy revolution. At the moment, imported oil accounts for 90 percent of the remote state's energy needs, a major reason its electricity costs are so high. The state's ambitious goal is to generate 70 percent of its power from clean energy sources by 2030, and it is looking everywhere.
| | | By John King © 2009 Cable News Network
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Democrats Advance Hotly Contested Climate Bill
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November 5, 2009 - MSNBC
| | Washington -- Senate Democrats on a key committee on Thursday ignored a Republican boycott and pushed a climate bill through by a 11 to 1 vote. But the committee chairman also noted that she's willing to amend the bill to make it more palatable and to get the 60 votes needed to pass the full Senate.
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COP15: Climate Change Conference
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November 1, 2009 - TIME
| | TIME looks at what's on the agenda for the talks in Copenhagen that begin on Dec. 2
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French Firm Pushes Carbon Capture Solution at US Coal Plant
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October 30, 2009 - Google News
| | New Haven, WV -- The French firm, Alstom, unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant -- a technology backers hope will fuel a new multi-billion dollar industry and keep the coal industry alive. Banking that coal power plants will come under legal and financial pressure to reduce emissions as part of efforts to reduce global warming, the pilot facility captures and stores around 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from West Virginia's Mountaineer plant.
| | | By Andrew Beatty © 2009 Agence France Presse © 2009 Google
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Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Going National
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October 30, 2009 - CBS News
| | Morgantown, W.Va. -- Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other groups planned protests at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
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Rumble Strips Could be Used to Generate Power
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October 16, 2009 - San Francisco Chronicle
| | Rows of spring-loaded panels about the size of a cigarette carton could replace traditional rumble strips at toll plazas or parking lots.
| | | By Ashley Halsey III © 2009 Hearst Communications Inc.
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The Price of Green
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October 5, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
| | Is it time to go "green" with your money, too, by investing in eco-sensitive funds?
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Proposed U.S. Carbon Cuts: All Bark, No Bite?
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October 1, 2009 - Time
| | The unveiling on Wednesday morning of the Senate's long-awaited draft legislation to reduce U.S. carbon emissions and shift the country to a clean-energy economy signals that Washington is inching ever closer to addressing global warming. The sweeping bill, sponsored by Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry, will cut U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2020, and 83% by 2050 — targets that in the short term are a bit more ambitious than a similar carbon cap-and-trade bill passed by the House two months ago.
| | | By Bryan Walsh © 2009 Time Inc.
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State Issues Rules on Upstate Natural Gas Drilling Near City’s Water
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September 30, 2009 - New York Times
| | After months of deliberations, state environmental regulators on Wednesday released long-awaited rules governing natural gas production in upstate New York, including provisions to oversee drilling operations near New York City’s water supplies.
| | | By Jad Mouawad © 2009 The New York Times Company
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Cash for Appliances: Should You Ditch the Old Fridge?
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September 14, 2009 - ABC News
| | Maybe you've heard about the Cash for Appliances program, a spinoff of the government's Cash for Clunkers program in which the government will give you a rebate if you trade in your old, inefficient household appliance for new Energy Star rated ones.
| | | By Elisabeth Leamy © 2009 ABC News Internet Ventures
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25 Companies to Watch in Energy Tech
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July 14, 2009 - BusinessWeek
| | BusinessWeek and GreenBiz.com, a green business information service, teamed up to pick 25 of the most intriguing up-and-coming U.S. energy companies that you probably haven't heard of—yet.
| | | By Adam Aston, Pete Engardio, and Joel Makower © 2009 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc.
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400-Billion-Euro Plan to Pump African Solar Power to Europe
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July 13, 2009 - Google News
| | Munich, Germany -- Twelve European companies launched a 560-billion-dollar initiative to plant huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe. The consortium says the massive proposal could provide up to 15 percent of Europe's electricity needs by 2050.
| | | By Laure Fillon © 2009 Agence France Presse © 2009 Google
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