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StockSource.us Reports GELV Setting Itself in Biofuel Market
Del Mar, CA – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, and Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack recently announced a bio refinery stimulus package, reported to be worth $564 million.
They hope the stimulus package, which forms part of
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Our Politicians Failed Us in Copenhagen and Will Soon Regret It
World leaders failed to deliver a legally binding deal in Copenhagen that will begin to reduce the world's greenhouse gas emissions that are the cause of climate change.
While we can point to the attempted happy face that politicians are trying to put
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Eastern Interconnection Grid Planning Authorities Get Boost from DOE’s Federal Stimulus Funding Announcement
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open and transparent stakeholder process, which is already underway.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on Dec. 18 announced the EIPC had been selected to receive $16 Million from the new stimulus funds. The DOE also
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MiaSole and Silicon Valley bank on green solar energy
At MiaSole, instead of rooms packed with software engineers hacking at computer code, it has a factory filled with robotic machines. Here inspectors do quality checks on almost-finished solar panels.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. MiaSolé, a solar panel start-up,
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Blog - Innovation Hubs Off the Starting Block
A key part of Energy Secretary Steven Chu's plan to revamp the U.S. Department of Energy and push forward new clean energy technologies is the "Energy Innovation Hub," a research center modeled on the legendary Bell Labs, which generated many key
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Loan Program May Stir Nuclear Industry
Only one, representing the southeastern United States, chose a radically different option: doubling nuclear power capacity.
Thirty years after the American nuclear industry abandoned scores of half-built plants because of soaring costs and operating
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Art Rosenfeld, the "godfather" of energy efficiency
distinguished physicist who recognized that the energy problem is huge. Art was my example of someone who said, 'I have to stop staying on the sidelines, and get involved.'"
When U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu appeared on the "The Daily Show" in July,
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POLITICO 44: Whiteboard Archives for December 28, 2009
Commenting for the first time on the failed terrorism attempt on Christmas, Obama suggested that the Nigerian who allegedly tried to blow up a plane was not acting alone. We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable,
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Taxpayer-Funded Wind Farms Prompt Concern from Democrats and Republicans; Jobs for China?
(CNSNews.com) -- Wind-power projects funded in part by the $787-billion Recovery Act (stimulus law) are coming under scrutiny at a time when President Obama and other Democrats have promoted alternative forms of energy production.
Two New York
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Energy Star Finally Gets Teeth, Bummer for LG
The Department of Energy quietly announced this month (hat tip Green Inc) that Korean electronics giant LG can’t use the Energy Star logo for over a dozen of its refrigerators starting in the new year. The decision was a result of findings of multiple
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Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke
The thick hardbound volume was sitting on a shelf in a colleague’s office when Kirk Sorensen spotted it. A rookie NASA engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Sorensen was researching nuclear-powered propulsion, and the book’s title — Fluid Fuel
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Arthur H. Rosenfeld: Energy efficiency 'guru' all set to call it a day
Often hailed as the godfather of energy efficiency, Dr. Arthur H. Rosenfeld has been enlightening the masses with his reflections, sermons and some concrete realizations of certain renewable energy related notions. How could you forget the genesis of
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Responding to a Republican Friend
Friendships are typically developed on the ground of common experience and perspective. It should thus be no surprise that — as a Republican until 2006 — I count among my friendships a fair number of Republican and Republican-inclined individuals.
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Obama's Elite Power Base
Looking back at President Obama’s first year in office, this much is clear: Obama first enraged the right wing by seeming to veer far left, then turned off the left by seeming to abandon them. Even as Fox News fundamentalists rail against “socialism,”
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Sarkozy's Carbon Tax Goes Up in Smoke
Last week France's Constitutional Council blocked a new tax on carbon emissions that was set to take effect on January 1. The eleventh-hour ruling is a blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy's efforts to present himself as a champion climate crusader. But
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General Motors Announces Start of Battery Assembly Production for Chevrolet Volt
This Thursday, exactly three years to the day the Chevrolet Volt concept car was revealed, General Motors Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will witness the start of battery
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Remarks by the President on security reviews
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody.
I just concluded a meeting with members of my national
security team, including those from our intelligence,
homeland security and law enforcement agencies involved in
the security reviews that I ordered after
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2011 Chevrolet Volt Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Goes Into Production
January 7th, 2010
The lithium-ion battery pack for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicles officially went into volume production today.
The 16-kilowatt-hour battery pack, containing 220 lithium-ion cells made by Korea's LG Chem,
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TOM WALSH: Don't expect further U.S. largesse
Steven Chu was arguably the most important investor in Michigan's economy during 2009, showering the state with about $2 billion in federal grants and loans for advanced battery research, manufacturing and other energy projects.
Don't expect, however,
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AEP leader prepares for successor, changes in emission laws and technology
The era of cheap electricity might be drawing to a close.
Few companies will be affected as dramatically as Columbus-based American Electric
Power, whose reliance on inexpensive coal has led to decades of low prices and high levels of
carbon-dioxide
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General Contractor LEED AP
Stroop Design & Construction, Inc. www.stroopdesign.com announces that Interior Designer Amanda Patella has achieved the LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional) designation. She has also passed her Florida
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Big Blue's Smarter Marketing Playbook
But I.B.M.’s gamble looks like good one today. The smarter-planet campaign has covered Big Blue in the mantle of thought and technology leadership among its core customers of senior corporate executives and government officials. It has also delivered
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DOE Invests Nearly $80M for Advanced Biofuels Research, Fueling Infrastructure
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the investment of nearly $80 million for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure to support the development of a sustainable transportation sector.
The selections announced
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NREL To Lead New Research Efforts for 'Drop-In' Biofuels
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will co-lead a new national program to develop advanced biofuels that are compatible with the nation's existing hydrocarbon fuels infrastructure.
Known as the National
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Palmer Labs Awarded U.S. Department of Energy Funding for Algae Biofuel Research
DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu announced Wednesday the award of $44 million in federal stimulus funds to The National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB), a consortium
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House subcommittee to question Exxon, XTO Energy executives
A congressional subcommittee is expected to pepper Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson and XTO Energy Chairman Bob Simpson with questions Wednesday about Irving-based Exxon’s planned $31 billion acquisition of Fort Worth-based XTO.
The setting will be an 8:30
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Calif. learned well from energy guru
SACRAMENTO, Calif. When octogenarian Arthur Rosenfeld vacates his utilitarian office at the California Energy Commission this week, one of his final tasks might seem of little consequence: He'll turn off the lights.
But that simple act some would say
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Peak oil review - Jan 18
1. Prices and Production
Oil prices fell steadily last week. After touching a high of nearly $84 a barrel on Monday crude closed at $78 on Friday due to warmer weather, a stronger dollar, rising US inventories, and more bad economic news in the US and
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Teryn Norris: Asia Challenges U.S. Innovation Leadership, New Report Shows
A major report released last week by the National Science Board concludes that U.S. global leadership in science and technology is declining as foreign nations - especially China and other Asian countries - rapidly develop their national innovation
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U.S. lawmakers have worries with Exxon-XTO merger
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic lawmakers on
Wednesday expressed concern that the merger of Exxon Mobil and
XTO Energy would reduce competition in the oil and gas markets
and increase the use of a controversial drilling technique.
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3 Democrats join effort to block global warming rules
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three Democratic senators are joining an effort to block the Obama administration from taking steps to reduce the pollution blamed for global warming.
Democrats Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Blanche Lincoln
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Tesla Motors lands $465M loan with feds to build Palo Alto plant
both for a company that is seeking to raise capital in a shaky economy and those who have lost their jobs. The power train manufacturing plant in Palo Alto and the Southern California facility should create more than 1,600 jobs, according to the
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Chu Fights Back -- R&D Push Gets Support from Bingaman and Gates
For the past several months, Congress has considered various energy bills, including comprehensive energy and climate legislation. As part of that process, industries and groups have spoken up to promote and defend their interests. I am concerned,
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Lobbying, global warming, economy portend revival of nuclear power in U.S.
WASHINGTON – Nuclear energy, once vilified by environmentalists and facing a dim future, has become a pivotal bargaining chip as Senate Democrats hunt for Republican votes to pass climate legislation.
The industry’s long-standing campaign to rebrand
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Earth2Tech’s Top 15 Connected Car Influencers
A web of key players is starting to take shape as entrepreneurs and global corporations race to carve out a piece of the nascent EV market, as government agencies dole out billions of dollars to jump-start that opportunity, as big thinkers churn out
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Sacramento in denial
The U.S. Labor Department report last week on December unemployment included still more grim news for California. The state had the nation’s biggest losses, with a net decline of 38,800 positions. Yet its unemployment rate stayed steady at 12.4 percent
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Yucca project assailed
Those were two of 11 legal challenges the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Construction Authorization Board heard in the first day of oral arguments. The hearing comes two years after the DOE submitted its license application for building a repository
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DOE Secretary Chu Throws $1.4B Loan To Nissan Leaf
At today’s press conference at The Washington Auto Show, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu had something to say about electric vehicles, and how the U.S. government would approach aiding EV manufacturers. Although it was originally thought that
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Biofuel advance made in Bay Area, researchers say
be delivered in trucks — a pollution source — because it corrodes pipelines.
Researchers in Emeryville have engineered a microbe that produces biodiesel fuel directly from plant waste and grasses, according to a study published Thursday in the Journal
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Secretary Chu Forms Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future; Focus on Nuclear Waste
As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to restarting the US nuclear industry, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future to provide recommendations for developing a safe,
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Obama Pushes Nuclear Energy to Boost Climate Bill
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.
Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his
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Can Nuke Power Save Climate Bill?
(AP) President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.
Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his
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Helen Caldicott: How Did an Idealistic President Become a Champion of Nuclear Power and By Default, Weapons Proliferation?
In 1983, Barack Obama, a senior at Columbia University described his visions of a "nuclear free world" in an article titled "Breaking the War Mentality" in the university newsmagazine, Sundial. He described discussions of "first- versus second-strike
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Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal (HQ)
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama today announced a series of steps his Administration is taking as part of its comprehensive strategy to enhance American energy independence while building a foundation for a new clean energy economy, and its promise
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Drumbeat: February 4, 2010
“It is incredible what that crazy [supervisor] kept talking about. It was impossible to work with him, but he was responsible for building the reactor”, says Polish builder Zbignew Mulczynski, describing his foreman hired by the French construction
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Energy efficiency investment top priority, says BP chief
Energy efficiency will play a vital role in delivering energy security, Tony
Hayward, group chief executive of BP told the London Business School in a
speech
yesterday.
Energy security has become a defining issue for the 21st century and "in
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Secretary Of Energy Steven Chu Plays 'Not My Job'
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu is kind of an overachiever, so we're asking him to play a game called "You are the losing-est bunch of losers in the history of losing."
We'll ask the Secretary of Energy three questions about one of the biggest
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UCAR: Roof white out helps UHI
I find it humorous thatUCAR had to resort to modeling to prove something that can be measured empirically. But then again this is UCAR, and they have a big computer at their NCAR office. Painting roofs white would probably help cool NOAA weather
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Our National No-Energy Policy
Economically sensible states including Texas, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania are developing their enormous, non-traditional, "tight" natural gas reserves. In the process, they are transforming America's energy profile for the next half-century in the face
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Haiti fundraiser screening of One Peace at a Time set for Wednesday at Dallas' Studio Movie Grill
Architecture for Humanity gets 100% of the proceeds from this North Texas Premiere.
Award-winning documentary One Peace at a Time will make its North Texas premiere at the Studio Movie Grill in Dallas on Wednesday night (doors: 6:30). The event is
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Remarks by the President on Energy in Lanham, Maryland
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Please have a seat. Have a seat. Good morning, everybody. Before I begin let me just acknowledge some of the people who are standing behind me here: First of all, two people who have been working
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Testing Einstein's Gravitational Redshift
Scientists measure interference between matter waves separated by 0.1 mm
While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly – a central prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity – a new
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Have Obama's federal government weatherize your home for only $57,362 each
Who could forget the $5 billion in Obama administration stimulus money that was going to rapidly create nearly 90,000 green jobs across the country in these tough economic times and make so many thousands of homes all snuggy and warm and
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Camacho to attend governor association winter meeting
First lady Michelle Obama on childhood obesity;
Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy, on advancing a green energy economy;
Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, on the future of surface transportation;
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education,
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Steven Chu: Energy Investments Could Bring Jobs To Colorado, But China Has Leg Up
AURORA, Colo. — Promoting Colorado's renewable energy industry is key to generating jobs and easing dependence on foreign oil – but the U.S. is lagging behind China in its investment in renewables, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday.
"America
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Cal physicist helps confirm Einstein theory
Einstein's theory of general relativity has already been tested and confirmed to a degree as a true picture of reality by scores of experimenters, ever since he proposed it to the world nearly a century ago.
In the immediate decades after the theory's
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Good News for Solar Thermal: $1.37B in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy for 400 MW
Photo: Brightsource Energy The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Hasn't Run Dry Yet It seems like the Department of Energy (DOE) and Steven Chu aren't done handing out loan guarantees (which people too often confuse with actual loans). A week ago
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Iran 'solution' a trap
There is rampant speculation that the visits by Steven Chu, the United States energy secretary, to Saudi Arabia on Monday and a high-ranking Israeli delegation to Beijing later this week both will focus on persuading China to support United Nations
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UAE-US Deal on Nuclear Information and Training
ABU DHABI The UAE and the US furthered their collaboration in nuclear energy with an arrangement that allows for the exchange of information and training of personnel.
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Anwar Gargash, and the US Energy
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Housing Recovery Hits Brick Wall
Is the housing recovery dead in the water?
The latest news from Foreclosureland sure seems to say that, dealing a death blow to projections that a recovery was imminent. In January, new data shows, new home sales plunged 11.3 percent to a record low,
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Doubts cast on legitimacy of global warming
No doubt: A protester finds a novel way to make his point during a demonstration at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen. Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters
Two years ago, the head of the UN’s climate science panel told an audience
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Words from the Investment Wise 2.28.10
As investors vacillated about the impact of developments in Greece, together with the uncertainty of strong fourth-quarter economic data possibly not carrying over to the first quarter, stock markets experienced two sharp sell-offs and two rebound
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WSJ’s ECO:nomics Conference Kicks Off This Week
The Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital blog may have closed up shop earlier this year but the name lives on in the Journal’s third annual ECO:nomics conference: Creating Environmental Capital. The event, focusing on the “most urgent issues in
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Steve Connor: My kind of town, San Diego is
It is the biggest and best general science meeting in the world.
The annual gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, which ended last week in San Diego, brings together some of the
leading researchers in a wide variety of
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Senator Graham: US cap-and-trade plan is "dead"
Proposals for a national emission cap-and-trade scheme look set to be dropped
from the latest draft of the US climate bill, after a senator working on a
compromise version of the legislation said the emissions trading element of the
bill was
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Hybrid fusion: the third nuclear option
THE long-anticipated nuclear renaissance has arrived. In his State of the Union address last month, President Barack Obama announced plans for the US to build a new generation of nuclear power plants, and his budget for 2011 proposes large funding
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CERAWeek preview: Energy biz leaders hit Houston Monday
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Politics and Policy
It's fair to say these have been some frustrating months for Steven Chu, secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. Among other things: The global climate summit in Copenhagen failed to produce much of an agreement. The prospects of passing a
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Energy Secretary: Renewables key to future, but fossil fuels will remain
The U.S. Secretary of Energy wasted no time outlining his arguments for climate change legislation at a Houston energy conference, even as the governor of the state in which he was speaking is pushing back against the Environmental Protection Agencyâs
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Flat-earth Obama or politically duplicitous?
For the sake of helping Harry Reid stay in office, President Barack Obama is prepared to renege on his promise to keep faith with science, would happily cost utility customers tons of money and -- last in this list, but hardly least -- scrap the
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Jay Ambrose: 'Flat-Earth Obama' puts politics over science
For the sake of helping Harry Reid stay in office, President Barack Obama is prepared to renege on his promise to keep faith with science, would happily cost utility customers tons of money and – last in this list, but hardly least – scrap the
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Gulf states wary of Iran's nukes and of sanctions
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seventh from the left, with government officials underneath the Simorgh (Phoenix) home-built satellite rocket.
Photo: AFP/ROHOLLAH VAHDATI
Robert Gates, the US defense secretary, was in the Gulf on
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Mercury News interview: Energy Secretary Steven Chu
use that much cement. Bloom Energy, that one is very interesting. It's a solid oxide fuel cell that can operate on either hydrogen or natural gas and make electricity. K.R. Sridhar (Bloom's CEO) says the cost is 10 or 12 cents a kilowatt hour, which is
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'Economic Suicide' -- By: Greg Pollowitz
Future Fuels: Our secretary of energy pushes bio-refineries and windmills to oil executives at an energy conference as the administration announces a three-year offshore drilling ban. This is a policy for economic suicide.
They don't qualify as an
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Administration Officials, Including Valerie Jarrett and Ray LaHood, to Address NLC Conference on Monday
-- Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for
Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement
-- Ronald O. Loveridge, Mayor, Riverside, Calif., NLC President
-- Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
-- Raymond
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Nevada Wind Turbine Factory to Create 1,000 Jobs, Backers Say
A consortium of Chinese and American renewable energy firms said this week they have chosen Nevada as the site of a new 320,000 square foot wind turbine manufacturing and assembly plant.
The turbine plant will create an estimated 1,000 long-term
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Regulators Urge Yucca Mountain Consideration
By Ian Talley WASHINGTON—The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners is urging the Obama administration to reconsider its decision to withdraw its Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository license. NARUC Tuesday filed a petition with the
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Steven Chu Begins Nationwide Energy Efficiency Push in US
Photo via Bellona It's About Time . . . Steven Chu has an op-ed from the World Economic Forum report reposted in the Huffington Post today, and it's full of both good points and good news. The ol' one-two goodness combo, as I like to say (full
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Democrats closing in on House votes needed for health care
Lingering fears of defections from the Democratic left - among those who believe the bill does not go far enough to expand health care access - were allayed Wednesday when Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, became the first liberal opponent of the
