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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:01 PM PDT
Climate group sees progress in US board rooms
Chicago Tribune - 39 minutes ago
The
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) said its 2012 survey showed a growing
number of top-tier executives and company boards of the 500 top publicly
traded U.S.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:42 AM PDT
GOP would end subsidies for Amtrak
Philadelphia Inquirer - 8 hours ago
The platform Republicans adopted at their convention included a call for
full privatization and an end to subsidies for the nation's passenger
rail operator, which gobbled up almost $1.5 billion in federal funds
last year.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:34 AM PDT
New “Frankenstein” Switchgrass is Good News for the Navy, Too
CleanTechnica - 5 hours ago
Despite aggressive pushback from anti-biofuel leadership in Congress, it
looks like the U.S. Navy is well on the way to getting
its biofuel after all. A new biofuel research project pairing the U.S.
Department of Agriculture with the University of ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:29 AM PDT
Agriculture.com
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EU to limit use of crop-based biofuels - draft law
Reuters - 22 hours ago
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will impose a limit on the use
of crop-based biofuelsover fears they are less climate-friendly than
initially thought and compete with food production, draft EU legislation
seen by Reuters showed.
EU food crop-based
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:06 AM PDT
Report names the world's 100 most endangered species
CNN - 9 hours ago
"This has made it increasingly difficult for conservationists to protect
the most threatened species on the planet. We have a important moral
and ethical decision to make: Do these species have a right to survive
or do we have a right to drive them to ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:58 AM PDT
Too Pessimistic about Renewable Energy
Energy Collective - 52 minutes ago
Recently, Michael Noble of Fresh Energy offered a terrific post out
about how renewable energy growth has far outpaced what everyone thought
possible over the past decade or so.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:54 AM PDT
What's Behind the US Solar Boom?
Technology Review (blog) - 52 minutes ago
The Solar Energy Industry Association yesterday reported that 742
megawatts of solar power were installed last quarter and that 3,200
megawatts of solar are expected to be installed this year.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:46 AM PDT
ThinkProgress
As Glaciers Melt In The European Alps, A Famed Austrian Peak Is Nearly
Ice-Free
ThinkProgress - 19 hours ago
In yet another sign of how quickly global warming is eating away at
glaciers in the European Alps, the Austrian Alpine Club is reporting
that the summit cross high on the 3,660-meter Grossvenediger in Austria
came close to toppling off its podium this
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:45 AM PDT
A bleak future for the world's glaciers
Deutsche Welle - 1 hour ago
Swiss glaciologist Samuel Nussbaumer from the World Glacier Monitoring
Service (WGMS) in Zurich analyzes the development of glaciers around the
world. Nussbaumer told Deutsche Welle the future of glaciers is
seriously under threat. DW: Mr Nussbaumer ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:38 AM PDT
President of Royal Dutch Shell Canadian division urges carbon price
Globe and Mail - 40 minutes ago
A senior oil executive is urging federal and provincial governments to
put a significant price on carbon dioxide to encourage the industry to
reduce emissions even as it increases production and accesses new and
growing markets.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:47 AM PDT
Energy Saving Nano-Carbon Light Bulbs Could Outshine CFLs and LEDs
Inventorspot - 10 hours ago
A Taiwan university research team has been awarded a patent on energy
efficient nano-carbon light bulbs. Unlike popular CFL bulbs and LED
lights, the new nano-carbon light bulbs and tubes use a mercury-free
manufacturing process and can be easily
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:30 AM PDT
Melting permafrost may speed up warming: study
Victoria Times Colonist - 4 hours ago
MacDougall
said the UVic analysis, which used a sophisticated computerized Earth
System Climate Model, showed the international aim of limiting global
warming to less than two degrees - confirmed in the 2009 Copenhagen
Accord - is becoming less and ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:09 AM PDT
Arizona PV Power Plant Now World's Biggest
EarthTechling - 1 hour ago
This announcement yesterday came just as the Solar Energy
Industries Association was putting out word that utility-scale PV
development had boomed in the second quarter, accounting for a record
447 MW of the 742 MW of PV installed nationwide in the ...
First Solar power plant hits 250 megawatt milestoneLos
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:03 AM PDT
Waxman, Rush Call For Hearing on Climate Change and Energy Production
KCET (blog) - 11 hours ago
In response to a troubling Washington Post article on how climate change
might impede our ability to generate electrical power, Los Angeles
Representative Henry Waxman and Representative Bobby Rush of Illinois
are calling for Congressional hearings on ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT
"Unprecedented Territory": 2012 the Hottest Year Recorded in the US So Far
Treehugger - 14 hours ago
Mild winter, hot spring, devastating summer; this is climate change
in Uncle Samland. The US National Climatic Data Center has published
its new data, and it shows that the first eight months of the year have
been hotter than any other recorded across ...
In US, 2012 So Far Is
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