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Two people have been injured after a parcel bomb exploded in the offices of the Swiss nuclear lobby, police said.
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Voting has been temporarily postponed in the Senate on proposals to stop, delay or pare back the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases linked to climate change problems.
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U.S. ethanol makers are working on reforms to replace a 45-cent a gallon tax break that expires this year, said the No. 1 maker on Wed., which could help the U.S. reduce its oil dependence.
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Pressure is mounting on Japan to expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima plant, as the prime minister says he plans to review the country's nuclear energy policy.
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A Senate subcommittee pressed federal officials on the safety of long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in pools, a common practice at reactors in the U.S. and at the stricken Fukushima plant.
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Tokyo Electric Power's disaster plans greatly underestimated the scope of a potential accident at its Fukushima plant, calling for only one stretcher, one satellite phone and 50 protective suits.
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Very low levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from Washington state, the EPA and the FDA said Wednesday, but federal officials assured consumers not to worry.
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Slowing the expansion of nuclear power will harm efforts to fight climate change, push up energy prices and set back goals to secure power supplies, said Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA.
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New Zealand will target halving its emissions from 1990 levels by 2050, a plan that will require major changes to the economy, the government said on Thursday.
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A federal court has decided California officials have the authority to require ships that stop in the state's ports to use cleaner marine fuels to reduce pollution from engine exhaust.
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China plans to raise the price of power generated from renewable sources over the next two years in order to stimulate clean energy investment, China's electricity regulator said.
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Danish wind turbine maker Vestas unveiled a new giant 7-megawatt offshore turbine on Wednesday and said it expected it to be in serial production in early 2015.
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PolitiFact is criticizing Rep. Bachmann — a Tea Party favorite who might run for president — over her claim that the Obama administration has issued one oil-and-gas drilling permit since taking office.
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PetroChina completed last week drilling its first horizontal shale gas well, in Sichuan province in the southwest, parent company CNPC's inhouse newspaper reported on Thursday.
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U.S. ethanol exports in 2011 should surpass last year's record high as the fuel remains relatively cheaper than Brazilian cane-based ethanol in external markets, a director at the largest U.S. farm co-op, CHS, said.
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Federal scientists say they have dated coral living near the site of the busted BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2,000 years old.
We’re all aware to some degree the energy savings that can be realized with the right windows in your house. And, many of us have faced the dilemma of moving forward with these efficiency upgrades while limiting the aesthetic architectural damage that might come to a coveted home as a result. Many of the finest [...]
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Dominant producer China will cap its total output of rare earth oxides at 93,800 tonnes this year, up 5 percent from last year, the country's land and resources ministry said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/solveclimate/todaysclimate/~4/bSgJbLyPVk0" height="1" width="1"/
New York Times: IF carbon is going to be kept out of the atmosphere, a lot of it is probably going to have to be injected back into the ground from which it was mined as coal or extracted as oil or gas. Not even the most ardent optimist about alternative energy would suggest that fossil fuels are going away soon. So carbon capture and sequestration — C.C.S. in environmental shorthand — is essential to a national energy policy. But almost all the discussion has been on the C.C. and not much on the S. Yet there...
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Unirac, Inc., North America's leading provider of infrastructure for solar power systems, was selected by Consolidated Solar Technologies, Inc. (CST) to supply an ISYS Ground Mount (IGM) mounting solution for a 1.1MW solar installation spanning a five-acre site at Albuquerque Academy. The solar array is the maximum-sized facility allowed under New Mexico utility regulations and was fully funded by companies outside the school. Albuquerque Academy is now the largest solar-powered secondary school in North America.
New York Times: The space for potassium iodide supplements at a pharmacy in Los Angeles was cleared out after a run on supplies days after a tsunami hit Japan`s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The nuclear calamity at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has reopened a 30-year debate about how to stockpile potassium iodide, a drug that protects the human thyroid gland from radioactive iodine emitted in reactor accidents.
Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, pointed out on Tuesday that...
New York Times: President Obama called on Wednesday for a one-third reduction in oil imports over the next decade, and said the effort had to begin immediately. In a speech at Georgetown University, the president said that the United States could not go on consuming one-quarter of the world’s oil production while possessing only 2 percent of global reserves. He said that the country had to begin a long-term plan to reduce its reliance on imported oil, and that the political bickering that had stalled progress toward...
Guardian: Japan disaster Japan confirms radiation levels higher but plays down danger – video
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says radioactive material in seawater near Fukushima nuclear plant will 'dissipate quickly' with the currents 
360 Yale: Google EarthForest loss in Sarawak While officials in the state of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo have insisted that 70 percent of the region’s forest cover is intact, satellite images indicate that far more widespread deforestation is taking place. A review of Google Earth images collected from GeoEye, TerraMetrics, and other satellite programs by the tropical forest Web site, Mongabay, reveals a network of logging roads and cleared forest across Sarawak. In contrast, the satellites reveal largely...
Mongabay: Clean energy investments rise 630% in 7 years
According to a report by the US Pew Environment Group global clean energy investments, which do not include nuclear power, jumped 630% since 2004. The report detailing 2010 clean energy investments found that China remains the global leader in clean energy, while the US fell from 2nd to 3rd. This is the second year in a row that the US fell: in 2009 it lost first place to China. In all $243 billion were invested in clean energy in 2010.
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Voice of America: Scientists Search Trove of Ice Age Fossils in Los Angeles
There is new evidence supporting a controversial theory that humans began changing the earth's climate with the development of agriculture some 8,000 years ago.
In an article published in the journal Nature, researchers studying the theory say new data indicate that enormous amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by early farming activities helped ward off an impending ice age, and fostered the planet’s...
New York Times: Frustrated by the Obama administration’s slow pace in restarting offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon accident last year, Republicans in Congress are proposing a range of bills to force the administration to accelerate the granting of drilling permits and open new offshore areas to oil and gas exploration.
Getty Images Representative Doc Hastings is sponsoring three bills that would rewrite offshore drilling rules.
The new drilling measures are part of a concerted...
redOrbit: The U.N. warned this week that urban areas are set to become the next battleground for fighting climate change.
According to U.N.-Habitat, the world's cities were responsible for about 70 percent of emissions, yet only occupied 2 percent of the planet's land cover.
The U.N. study found that while cities were energy intensive, effective urban planning could deliver huge savings.
The authors of the study said that a "deadly collision between climate change and urbanization" could take place...
BBC: China remains the world's leading investor in low-carbon energy technology, a global study has shown.
The table, published by the US Pew Environment Group, showed that the Chinese invested $54.4bn (£34.1bn) in 2010, up from $39.1bn in 2009.
While the US saw investment increase by 51% to $34bn, it still slipped from 2nd to 3rd in the ranking, behind Germany's $41.2bn.
However, the UK slipped outside the top 10 as investment fell by 70% in 2010.
Globally, the sector - which does not include...
InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report Energy Solutions by JMS says work is progressing on what it calls one of the largest solar farms in Indianapolis. The company says it’s partnering with solar panel manufacturer NuSun Inc., which announced in December plans to create 240 jobs at a facility in Columbus. Construction on the expanded solar farm is expected [...]
Solar air heaters are extremely environmentally friendly and they will greatly reduce your home’s carbon footprint and energy bills. They require little or no maintenance and they will last for years. Solar air heaters heat air in an “air collector.” The system absorbs and collects solar radiation and transfers the solar heat to a storage [...]
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By Lester R. Brown In 1994, I wrote an article in World Watch magazine entitled “Who Will Feed China?” that was later expanded into a book of the same title. When the article was published in late August, the press conference generated only moderate coverage. But when it was reprinted that weekend on the front [...]
I recently posted a description of a highly sustainable form of row crop farming that combines high productivity with low environmental impact. This is not just a theoretical vision but something which is actually being practiced on a significant commercial scale (e.g. non-tillage, cover cropping, controlled wheel traffic, variable rate fertilization…). It is difficult to [...]
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You could almost hear the screech of brakes throughout the UK's solar sector as the UK secretary of state for energy and climate change, Chris Huhne, said on 7 February, 'I am today announcing the start of the first review of the feed-in tariffs (FiTs) scheme for small-scale low carbon electricity generation.'
"Even the constant drumbeat of energy-related tragedies does very little to stimulate engagement in clean energy," fumes Craig Shields, author of RENEWABLE ENERGY - FACTS AND FANTASIES, #1 best selling energy book on Amazon.com. "Fishermen in the gulf are ruined. Northern Africa is in flames due to the tyranny of oil money. And the world is in tears about Japan. But what's the US doing about its energy policy? Essentially nothing."
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A Plan to Phase Out “Dirty” Energy
After the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, someone said to me “We have to stop all offshore drilling.” My response was that I could get behind that idea, but I wanted to know what sacrifices the person was willing [...]
Editor’s Note: We received a “heads-up” on this action in Illinois from our friends with the Illinois Solar Energy Association. It appears that Illinois is not drinking the coal gasification “Kool Aid”. Original article: http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/249447/18/Quinn-vetoes-bills-to-set-up-coal-to-gas-plants 5:04 PM, Mar 14, 2011 | 2 comments SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) – Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has vetoed bills allowing construction of two [...]Turn autoplay off Turn autoplay on Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Jump to content s Jump to site navigation 0 Jump to search 4 Terms and conditions 8 Mobile site Sign in Register Text larger smaller About us About us Contact us Press office Guardian Print Centre Guardian readers' editor Observer readers' editor Terms of service Privacy policy Advertising guide Digital archive Digital edition Guardian Weekly Buy Guardian and Observer photos Subscribe Today's paper The Guardian G2 features Comment and debate Editorials , letters and corrections Obituaries Other lives Sport MediaGuardian Subscribe Zeitgeist Today's hot topics guardian.co.uk Environment User comments Web News Sport Comment Culture Business Money Life style Travel Environment TV Blogs Data Mobile Offers
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