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Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the world's top energy consumers must work together to confront the global climate crisis.
So the DOE is making $37.5 million in grant money available for the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center.
Secretary Chu paved the way for the center when he visited China last June, and President Obama...
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Vietnam, a developing country with a growing energy demand, now has a memorandum of understanding on peaceful nuclear cooperation with the United States.
U.S. officials say the deal, which addresses nuclear safety and nonproliferation concerns, will likeley lead to another agreement allowing U.S....
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The Environmental Protection Agency says it will regulate greenhouse gases, but only gradually.
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said today that despite opposition from Congress and the industry, the agency is moving forward using the "endangerment finding" to regulate both mobile...
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Rescuers in China are scrambling to save 153 coal miners trapped by a flood.
The accident happened Sunday in the China's northern province of Shanxi. There were more than 260 workers in the mine, and 108 made it...
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The three co-authors of Senate climate legislation believe they have found a fitting day to release their bill: The 40th anniversary of Earth Day, April 22
Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., co-author with John Kerry, D-Mass., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says details of the bill will likely be released the week of April 19. He spoke after the lawmakers...
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World leaders may have been disappointed with the outcome of the Copenhagen climate talks this past December, but Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, says a climate deal is possible in 2011.
In an interview with EurActiv, de Boer said that the upcoming UN conference in Cancun this...
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The Environmental Protection Agency says it will veto the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia history.
The agency announced today that it will overturn Arch Coal's Clean Water Act permit to bury more than seven miles of headwater streams near its Spruce No. 1 mine, near Charleston. EPA says...
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A new report from the auditing arm of Congress shows that the federal Energy Star program has a sloppy certification process that can be easily abused.
The 18-year-old program, which is administered jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, offers consumers...
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A coalition headed by electric utilities, renewable energy developers, labor unions and environmental groups wants changes in the Senate energy bill.
The group says language in the legislation designed to ensure that transmission costs are proportional to the economic benefits could...
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China now leads the world in spending on solar and wind, according to a study from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
The study looked at spending among the G-20 countries, and for the first time, China spent more than the United States.
Chinese private investment last year was almost $35 billion -- almost double the nearly $19 billion...
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The Energy Department is awarding its largest "smart grid" stimulus grant to CenterPoint Energy in Houston.
DOE will give the company $150 million for deployment of its advanced metering system. CenterPoint will also get $50 million to fund the...
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Can Yucca Mountain be resurrected as a nuclear waste site?
A group of House Democrats and Republicans introduced a resolution to stop the Obama administration from ending the nuclear waste repository program.
The resolution of disapproval aims to stop the Energy Department from using appropriated...
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The EPA wants the oil and natural gas sectors to track and report emissions of greenhouse gases.
Administrator Lisa Jackson says tracking methane emitted by oil and natural gas systems is of particular importance. Methane is the primary component of natural gas and is...
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Senators Maria Cantwell and Susan Collins talk about putting a predictable price on carbon. Nuclear blue ribbon panel to meet tomorrow. New Mexico State University's Jim Conca, PhD., says don't expect the panel to come forward with specific nuclear storage sites anytime soon. And White House Energy Advisor Carol Browner, Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congressman Jay Inslee discuss American cities going green and the role government can play in sustainable energy and efficiency.
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Virent Energy and Shell say they've developed a catalytic process that can produce gasoline from plant sugars -- gasoline that is chemically identical to gasoline made from crude oil.
That would give this "biogasoline" a big leg up over the better known biofuel, ethanol, which can also be produced from sugars. Ethanol produces...
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The nation's capital ranks just behind Los Angeles when it comes to energy-efficient buildings.
The latest EPA survey shows Washington, D.C., with 204 commercial buildings in 2009 that...
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A new poll shows support for nuclear power at its highest since Gallup first asked the question in 1994.
Sixty-two percent of the 1,014 Americans polled say they favor nuclear as one way to meet national electricity needs.
Republican support hit a high of seventy-four percent, up from seventy-one percent last...
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Colorado now has the Rocky Mountain region's highest renewable energy standard.
Governor Bill Ritter has signed into law a bill requiring that state utilities generate 30 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. The state's current RES is 20 percent.
The bill also encourages small-scale, home-based energy production. The Governor's Energy Office predicts...
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a state law he and federal officials say will speed up approvals for large-scale solar and wind projects.
It's also aimed at improving the chance renewables will meet deadlines to qualify for...
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The EPA now has until Friday to decide if it will overturn the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia history.
The Charleston Gazette reports that a federal judge has agreed to delay his ruling in a lawsuit over Arch Coal's Spruce No. 1 Mine, giving the...
The government is moving to expand and strengthen the Energy Star program.
EPA and the Department of Energy have launched a new verification program that will test all products going after the Energy Star label at independent laboratories. About 25 percent of...
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NRG Energy's Steve Corneli talks about the prospects for the Kerry, Graham, Lieberman climate bill. Today marks 18th annual world water day - EPA Administrator announces new strategies on drinking water standards. Police cars go greener with a new BMW diesel engine.
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Utility officials in Los Angeles have approved a carbon surcharge for customers.
The Department of Water and Power agreed to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's plan to charge residents $2.50 a month and businesses about 20 percent more for the next year, starting April 1.
The mayor says the money will allow the city to invest in clean renewable energy, implement...
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The military is worried that wind farms can disrupt or block radar designed to detect threats and protect America's skies.
Rotating turbine blades have been shown to sometimes give false radar signatures.
An Air Force General told Congress federal agencies need to work better together on a formal vetting process to prevent wind projects...
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Industry groups have now seen a draft outline of the Kerry Graham Lieberman climate bill.
As of right now, that legislation will include at least two kinds of carbon emission reduction systems.
The authors of the bill, John Kerry, D-Mass, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., shared the outline with industry leaders...
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Automakers are urging Congress not to bar EPA from setting its first national tailpipe emissions, and they're denying their stance is due to White House pressure.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers sent congressional leaders a letter urging them not to pass pending resolutions that would nullify EPA's...
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The EPA says it will redirect nearly $2 million to get a study on hydraulic fracturing under way this year.
The study comes amid increasing fears that hydrofracking could contaminate drinking water aquifers. The practice is now regulated state by...
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Former President Bill Clinton joining the chorus of those urging Senate Democrats to pass a climate bill this year.
Clinton said Tuesday legislation would spur innovation and create new jobs. Those at a luncheon where he spoke say he also argued the...
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A $7.6 billion natural gas deal could help Pakistan avert a growing energy crisis.
Pakistan has signed a deal with Iran for construction of a pipeline pumping Iranian natural gas to Pakistan, which suffers severe electricity...
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As the world sets its sights on Mexico for the COP-16 climate conference, one negotiator says formal talks are becoming less important.
Special United Nations climate envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland says the Copenhagen Accord -- a deal reached by world leaders outside the formal negotiations -- is the kind of agreement that will...
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The United Auto Workers union wants lawmakers to keep their hands off the EPA's endangerment finding.
Union leaders fired off a letter to congressmen and senators on Monday, urging them to reject resolutions in both houses aimed at nullifying last...
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Governors of 29 states say they'll push the White House and Congress to boost wind energy by enacting a renewable electricity standard, a goal long sought by wind energy trade groups and industry.
A bipartisan group called the Governors' Wind Energy Coalition made its recommendations today in a report to Congress and the Obama administration. The group said that energy cost...
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the U.S. clean energy sector is stalled without a price on carbon, while the rest of the world -- especially China -- surges ahead.
Speaking to the National League of Cities today in Washington, Chu said the US led the world in photovoltaic technology 15 years ago, capturing...
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An Environmental Protection Agency official says the agency could set up its own system for trading carbon allowances without waiting for action from Congress.
Anna Marie Wood, a senior policy analyst for the agency, said today that the Clean Air Act could be used to set up a carbon trading system -- without action from lawmakers, who are divided...
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Federal regulators say it's technologically impossible to remove all the coal ash from the December 2008 Kingston spill from the Emory River.
And that means an undetermined amount of coal ash will remain, even after the cleanup ends.
The leader of EPA's emergency cleanup operation says the removal of ash from the Emory River has entered its final stage. But because dredging...
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says he skipped meetings of world leaders at last December's Copenhagen climate summit because China was snubbed.
Wen told a Beijing news conference he was never formally invited to a late-night leader's session before the conference's last day, and before President Obama arrived. He says he learned of...
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Undersea volcanoes could be a secret weapon in the fight against climate change.
A study published in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience shows for the first time that the volcanoes hold a key that turns the world's oceans into "carbon sinks."
French and Australian researchers tell Reuters they've pinpointed the volcanoes as a key source...
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says birds are a key indicator of the effects of climate change.
Speaking at a news conference on the "State of Birds, 2010 Report on Climate Change" Salazar said Thursday that birds are messengers that tell...
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A new Gallup poll shows Americans are less worried about climate change, and are less convinced of its impact on the environment.
The poll shows 48 percent feel the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated -- the highest percentage in the 13 years the question has been included in the poll. It's up from 41 percent last year and 31 percent in 1997.
Gallup speculates the shift may be due to the recent controversy over stolen e-mails from climate scientists and the increasingly partisan nature of the...
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