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Low Natural Gas Prices Threaten Carbon Capture Projects
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 23:18
Cheap, plentiful natural gas provides utilities with little incentive to build coal-fired plants with a technology that traps carbon gas for storage or other uses.
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Business Briefing | Company News: Chesapeake Energy to Cut Directors’ Pay
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 22:04
The natural gas and oil producer Chesapeake Energy said that it would cut the pay of outside directors on its board by 20 percent and eliminate their use of company aircraft.
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Green Blog: In the Gulf's Depths, a Rare Time Capsule
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 19:36
Using a remotely operated vehicle on the ocean floor, federal scientists happened upon the wreckage of a ship evoking a time when nations vied for power in the Americas.
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Green Blog: Swapping Out Charcoal With Ethanol
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 19:36
A company opened a biofuel plant to supply ethanol to households in the Mozambican capital that rely on charcoal for cooking fuel.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Tackling the Tsunami Debris
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 19:36
An agency official said that the federal government lacked the financing to cover a cleanup of the tsunami debris washing up in Alaska and other states.
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Will Chinese Solar Module Tariffs Restore Balance to the Industry?
Renewable Energy World - Solar - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 12:55
In the quest to "level the playing field," the 31 percent anti-dumping tariff announced Thursday was a good start, said SolarWorld President Gordon Brinser, but even more is needed to bring the industry back into balance.
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Dot Earth Blog: A 'Fracked' Photograph
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 12:47
A photographer slices open a stone and finds an image reflecting our gas thirst.
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Green Blog: Billboard Wars, Chapter 2 (or Is It 3?)
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 12:02
The media company that accepted the conservative Heartland Institute's controversial ad about climate change rejected one rival billboard but accepted another.
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U.S. Slaps Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 11:20
The United States Commerce Department concluded that Chinese producers had “dumped” their products on the American market.
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Iran Oil Production Drop Seen
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 10:00
A 12 percent decline in the first three months of the year is at odds with Iran’s assessment that there has been no significant change in output over the past year.
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Apple to Power 3 Data Centers with 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy World - Solar - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 09:47
Greenpeace advocates gathered outside of Apple's Cupertino headquarters early this week dressed as iPhones and iPods, declaring their outrage about the company's lack of clean energy use. They projected social media messages from supporters on the side of the building:
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Energy Efficiency: What Are the Laggards Thinking?
Renewable Energy World - EE - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 07:12
Why do some states avoid creating policies that encourage consumers and businesses to save energy? What’s the psychology of the laggards? A new report by the American Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy sheds some insight as it examines the states that consistently fall behind in the organization’s annual energy efficien
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Brazil’s President Faces Defining Decision Over Forest Bill
New York Times Energy/Environment - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 07:02
The bill awaiting action by President Dilma Rousseff would effectively give amnesty to landowners who illegally deforested areas before 2008.
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NLP Solar Sales Training Live Webinar May 30th & 31st
Renewable Energy World - Solar - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 07:01
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The Texas Tribune: Legislation Proposed to Extend Texas Helium Sales Deadline
New York Times Energy/Environment - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 22:40
Congress has proposed legislation to help avoid a worldwide helium shortage, and some 30 percent of the global supply comes from a plant northwest of Amarillo.
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Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1
Renewable Energy World - Solar - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 13:39
Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering their data centers. The protests were a follow up to their recently released report, “How Clean is Your Cloud,” which criticized the companies fo
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Nuclear Snapshot
New York Times Energy/Environment - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:45
China has led the way in expanding nuclear generating capacity over the last decade.
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31 Percent Anti-Dumping Tariffs Announced for Chinese Solar Panels
Renewable Energy World - Solar - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:35
The U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday announced stiff anti-dumping tariffs of around 31 percent on crystalline silicon solar panels imported from China, leading to a new round of concerns on how the duties will impact the growing American solar industry.
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Green Blog: Q. and A.: How to Save Bangladesh?
New York Times Energy/Environment - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:06
Bangladesh, buffeted by climate change and flooding, is a prime example of a country whose fate could be determined by what happens at a conference in Rio next month.
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Domestic Module Manufacturing: PV Globalization or Political Vote-Seeking?
Renewable Energy World - Solar - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 10:35
Despite 2011 having been a particularly challenging year for PV cell and module manufacturers, new small-scale module manufacturing facilities continue to be implemented, especially in emerging markets. In some cases, these companies/facilities are either aligned to local government policies or are implemented purely as diversification strategies. Other examples are joint-ventures between private and government entities. Such JV's are intended to represent "national" centers-of-excellence to serve domestic or regional market demand.
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