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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) opened the door Thursday to supporting a plan to eliminate oil industry tax breaks.
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U.S. meteorologists warned Thursday it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes in the wake of deadly storms that have ripped through the south.
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The nation's top nuclear regulator cast doubt Thursday on whether reactors in the U.S. are prepared for the type of days-long power outage that struck a nuclear plant in Japan.
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One of America's oldest nuclear power plants is up for sale. Dominion Resources said on Thursday it wants to sell its Kewaunee Power Station north of Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
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The second-biggest nuclear power plant in the U.S. may be down for weeks after killer thunderstorms and tornadoes in Alabama knocked out power and automatically shut down the plant.
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The depressed price of natural gas has clouded the economics of new reactors, and the disaster in Japan has further weakened support for building plants.
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A global warming target could be missed three times over if countries fail to promote clean energy, the International Energy Agency warned Thursday.
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Total SA offered to pay up to $1.37 billion for a majority stake in U.S. solar company SunPower, one of the biggest moves ever by an oil and gas giant into the market for renewable energy.
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China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, could peak in emissions by 2030 or earlier, says a study from U.S. researchers.
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Analysts say Winfried Kretschmann's rise to state premier of Baden-Württemberg may be first in a series of Green victories.
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post for SUNfiltered on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ first solar-powered meetinghouse in Farmington, Utah. That experiment apparently went so well that the Church decided to continue down this path: another meetinghouse built to green standards just opened in Mesa, Arizona. Mormons building [...]
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Climate change legislation is advancing in 16 of the world's largest economies, according to a study out earlier this week from the Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE).
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The Obama administration has frozen construction on most of the Ivanpah power project in California's Mojave Desert on grounds that the plant's footprint would disturb more desert tortoises than first suspected.
Mongabay: Losses from deforestation top $36 billion in Indonesian Borneo
Illegal forest conversion by mining and plantation companies in Indonesian Borneo has cost the state $36 billion according to a Forest Ministry official.
Speaking to AFP, Forestry Ministry information center director Masyhud said that more than 1,200 mining companies and 500 oil palm plantation firms are under investigation by the Ministry of Forestry for operating illegally in Central, East and West Kalimantan provinces on the...
Daily Green: Preparing for Killer Tornadoes and Other Climate Change Impacts
Watch our exclusive interview with former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, on the costs of climate change to U.S. residents and how we can prepare for extreme weather.
The Daily Green recently had the opportunity to interview Christine Todd Whitman, former New Jersey governor and the first Environmental Protection Agency administrator in the George W. Bush Administration. As EPA Administrator, Whitman was perhaps best...
Solve Climate: Climate Change Spells Extinction for a Mountain Species, Research Shows
Study demonstrates clear connection between warming and rising extinction rates of the American pika for the first time, with implications for many species
Scientists have long understood that climate change has an effect on the numbers and distribution of animal species, but exactly how big an impact and why has remained largely speculative, until now.
New research shows that the American pika, the mountain-dwelling...
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Scores of residents were out in force last week to express their support at a rally held by New Jersey State Senator Paul Sarlo and members of Americans for Prosperity (AFP) opposing New Jersey’s participation in RGGI.
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Officials postponed a plan to ramp up efforts to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex amid concerns that the use of thousands of additional metric tons of water could result in dangerous leaks.
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Researchers are planning to create a detailed map showing levels of radioactive contamination around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
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An attorney for an anonymous group of pranksters argued Thursday that one of the leading opponents of climate change science, Koch Industries, overstepped its bounds in suing the pranksters over a false news release issued from a near-exact copy of the company's website.
Despite what has been said in recent Congressional hearings and debates; despite the House vote to block the Environmental Protection Agency's climate regulations; and, despite what a handful of vocal skeptics are saying, climate change is real. It is happening. But, it is not just about changes in weather patterns. This phenomenon could cost the U.S. billions of dollars and thousands of jobs if we doing nothing to slow it.
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The Utilities Telecom Council trade group reports that electric vehicles will require a 16-fold increase in power usage in the next decade, putting pressure on utilities to find out how to handle car charging as quickly as possible.
Reuters: China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, could peak in emissions by 2030 or earlier, says a study from U.S. researchers who foresee Chinese demand for appliances, buildings and much industry reaching "saturation" around then.
The study by energy and emissions experts at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California adds to a growing body of studies that say China could reach its maximum output of carbon dioxide (CO2) within two decades.
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A protest against a fake downtown Chicago coal plant, designed to draw attention to the Clean Power Ordinance, was concocted by a group of students from a nearby college with help from the infamous political pranksters.
Going green isn’t something that is for individuals to do in their spare time anymore. It has become a way of life, and whole communities, even large cities, are making huge efforts to be more environmentally conscience. Many cities like Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco are becoming world wide leaders in taking the initiative to [...]
Some of the UK’s leading energy providers have shown their support for the launch of a scheme that will bring certainty to UK consumers that the gas they buy is totally “green”. The Green Gas Certification Scheme (GGCS) tracks biomethane through the supply chain.
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In a test designed to prove that electric vehicles (EVs) are not only flexible but durable, even in intense cold, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has taken two to Antarctica, figuring that if they run there, they will run anywhere.
The two ...
AFP: A global warming target could be missed three times over if countries fail to promote clean energy, the International Energy Agency warned Thursday, amid a possible slowdown in atomic power growth.
Nuclear fuel does not emit carbon dioxide, making it a serious option for "clean energy" proponents over fossil fuels, but governments around the world have turned more cautious on it in the wake of the Fukushima crisis in Japan.
The IEA's deputy head Richard Jones however cautioned that global warming...
Reuters: Google Inc has not given up on its goal of making renewable energy cheaper than coal for consumers but it is not predicting victory soon, its director of green business operations said.
"We are still moving forward," said Rick Needham, in an interview at the company's office in Washington. "I think that is an important goal and a very aspirational goal, but we are doing what we can."
The Internet search giant said in late 2007 it would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in solar, wind and...
Yale Environment 360: When it was launched in 2005, the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) was hailed as a major step forward in the fight against climate change. Covering 12,000 power plants, factories, and other industrial facilities -- and nearly half of EU CO2 emissions -- it was the world's largest cap-and-trade project to date. EU officials saw it as the first of many carbon-pricing schemes that would eventually cover the globe.
Six years later that vision is looking a little clouded. With the...
Spiegel: With Chancellor Merkel's government turning its back on nuclear power, offshore wind parks are set to pick up the slack. But the installation of gigantic turbines in the North and Baltic seas has proven challenging, slow and hindered by bureaucratic hurdles. Could the future of wind be on land after all?
Whenever German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits one of her country's four major electric utilities, it is bound to have symbolic significance. This was the case when the chancellor and Jürgen...
GreenBiz: A new study released by GLOBE international -- a coalition of legislators from around the world -- found that "climate change is featuring prominently on the legislative agenda across the 16 major economies."
The study, conducted by the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at the London School of Economics, documents the kinds of actions that countries are taking at home to reduce their emissions. While it doesn't tell us the impact of those measures, it does show a growing commitment of countries...
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The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions
Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around and introduce legislation aimed at making gasoline cheaper. Imagine that an advocate for more exercise [...]
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