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How Can China, U.S. Address Climate? - San Francisco Chronicle

California, the world's eighth-largest economy, is seen as a model of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. China is seen as the world's largest contributor to greenhouse ga...

Lou Dobbs Announces His Departure from CNN - Lou Dobbs Tonight

Tonight I want to turn to a personal note, if I may, and address a matter that has raised some curiosity. This will be my last broadcast here on CNN, where I've worked for most of ...

Wood-Fueled Power Gains in Wisconsin - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

enlarge photo Energy writer Thomas Content keeps you current as you adapt to changes in the world of energy, climate change ...

Obama's Call to Action on Energy - Bob Herbert, New York Times

President Obama made an appearance in Florida last week that should have gotten more attention. At a time when many Americans are apprehensive about the state of the economy and un...

TV Regulations Could Harm Innovation - San Francisco Chronicle

Listening to the commision's rhetoric over the last few months, you also might believe that your entertainment center is causing an energy crisis. The truth of the matter is that i...

Cape Wind Decision Possible By Year-End - Reuters

A decision will be made by the end of 2009 on whether the go ahead will be given to the massive Cape Wind electricity project off the shore of Massachusetts, U.S. Interior Secretar...

Clinton's Remarks with Morocco's FM - Hillary Clinton

Marrakech, MoroccoFOREIGN MINISTER FASSI-FIRHI: (Via interpreter) In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, first of all, I wish to apologize in my name and on behal...

Interview with Energy Secretary Stephen Chu - The Situation Room

BLITZER: And joining us now from Capitol Hill, the energy secretary, Steven Chu, himself a Nobel Prize winner.Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for coming in. Receive news alertsSTEV...

Senate Panel Set to Take on Climate Bill - Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- The Senate debate over climate legislation is set to begin in earnest this week, with a key panel holding hearings on legislation that would curb U.S. greenhouse-gas ...

Energy Dept. Aid for Scientists on Edge - New York Times

WASHINGTON — The federal Energy Department will make good on a pledge for a bolder technology strategy on Monday, awarding research grants for ideas like bacteria that will ma...

Western States Stress Energy Cooperation - Associated Press

The War on Charmin - Margaret Carlson, The Daily Beast

The Kidnapping Threat to Afghanistan's Women EntrepreneursHot Topics: Photo Galleries, Big Fat Story, Giving Beast, Hungry Beast, Art BeastEnter your email address:Enter the recipi...

California Considers Banning Giant TVs - Daily Telegraph

Accessibility links Digital Publisher of the Year | Friday 16 October 2009 | USA feed Advertisement Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breakin...

Earmarks Sap Energy Secretary's Agenda - Wall Street Journal

Energy Secretary Steven Chu set out this year to address America's energy future with a network of new research labs. But lawmakers drafted their own blueprint: Instead of fully fu...

Who's in Big Brother's Database? - James Bamford, NY Review of Books

Bloomsbury, 423 pp., $30.00On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret cle...

States Not Meeting Renewable Energy Goals - USA Today

Thirty-five states have set goals to use more electricity from solar panels, windmills and other renewable forms of energy, according to a database funded by the Energy Department....

Clean-Tech Lobbyists Push for Climate Bill - New York Times

Companies from the Midwest and Southeast stormed Capitol Hill yesterday in an effort to swing the climate votes of senators from Ohio to Arkansas.A blog about energy, the environme...

White House Expands Climate Campaign - Associated Press

President Barack Obama's so-called green team has undergone a growth spurt.The group of Cabinet secretaries and White House advisers who meet regularly to craft the president's ene...

Three Dangerous Stooges - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics

Last week, three dictators -- from Iran, Libya and Venezuela -- delivered lunatic hate speeches at the General Assembly of the United Nations.Why do these anti-Semitic dictators fe...

Clean Jobs Bill Aims to Reinvent Policy - Irish Times

TWO US senators yesterday presented draft legislation whose fate will have far-reaching consequences for the Obama administration, the environmental conference in Copenhagen in Dec...

Texas Completes $1B Wind Complex - CNET News

Wind turbines collectively offering a 781.5-megawatt capacity now dot the landscape around Roscoe, Texas.One of the world's largest wind farms is now operational in the area surrou...

India Foresees Increase in Nuclear Energy - Wall Street Journal

NEW DELHI -- India is poised for a big increase in its civilian nuclear capabilities.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday stressed the importance of nuclear energy in bridgin...

Obama's Remarks on the Stimulus Package - Barack Obama

National Institutes of HealthBethesda, Maryland11:03 A.M. EDT Receive news alertsTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you so much. Francis, thank you for the extraordinary introducti...

A Crusade for Economic Self-Restraint - David Brooks, New York Times

Centuries ago, historians came up with a classic theory to explain the rise and decline of nations. The theory was that great nations start out tough-minded and energetic. Toughne...

History of Energy in the United States - RCP Staff, RealClearPolitics

The United States was self-sufficient in energy until the late 1950s when energy consumption began to outpace domestic production. At that point, the nation began to import more en...

Obama's Speech at the U.N. Climate Change Summit - Barack Obama

U.N. Climate Change SummitNew York, NYGood morning. I want to thank the Secretary-General for organizing this summit, and all the leaders who are participating. That so many of u...

An iPod World With a Hunger for Electricity - Economic Times

An ipod world, with a hunger for electricity21 Sep 2009, 1832 hrs IST, New York Times1|2|3|Next >More >>Mindteck appoints Suresh Rao as CFOMindteck (Indi...

Sewage May Be Turned Into Power Source - Calgary Herald

A B.C. company is turning feces into fuel.Vancouver-area officials shipped eight truckloads of sewage to Kamloops for the pilot project, hoping to create a new source of revenue fr...

Flywheels Said to Make Greener Energy - Associated Press

Spinning flywheels have been used for centuries for jobs from making pottery to running steam engines. Now the ancient tool has been given a new job by a Massachusetts company: smo...

President Obama and PM Harper Take Questions - The White House

11:49 A.M. EDTPRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. Prime Minister Harper and I have just had an excellent conversation, reiterating the extraordinary friendship and bond between th...

OPEC Maintains Oil Quotas - Bloomberg

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Energy Bill's Proponents Prep Counterattack - MSNBC

The lineup of powerful opponents -- along with the partisan divide that has developed over health care -- has fueled speculation that the climate legislation is dying. The opponent...

Boxer, Kerry Delay Climate Bill - The Hill

Sens. Barbara Boxer and John Kerry said Monday the climate bill they are writing would not be finished until later in September.The bill was expected to be ready when lawmakers ret...

Europe's Ban on Old-Style Light Bulbs Begins - New York Times

BRUSSELS — Restrictions on the sale of incandescent bulbs begin going into effect across most of Europe on Tuesday in the continent’s latest effort to get people to sav...

Mich., Wis. Governors to Hold Energy Forum - Associated Press

Climate Bill Exposes Family Rifts - Stephen Power, Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- The debate over how to curb carbon-dioxide emissions and other gases linked to global climate change is splitting some prominent political families in both parties....

US Seeks Independence with Natural Gas - Matthew Price, BBC News

Then comes the killer comment, as far as US politics is concerned right now: "The natural gas that's being used in this country at this time can really get us to energy independenc...

Obama's Green Dream Team - Nancy Cook, Newsweek

During the first seven months of the Obama presidency, the administration charted a new course for a green economy. It approved a stimulus package with roughly $50 billion for rene...

Toyota Tops Sales for Cash for Clunkers - Bill Vlasic, New York Times

DETROIT — The cash-for-clunkers program turned out to be a boon for Asian automakers and the small cars they specialize in....

DOE Doesn't Use Thermostats to Cut Costs - New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Energy Department strives to be a leader in championing energy efficiency. Its Web site lists energy-saving tips, while Secretary Steven Chu calls conservation o...

Budget Pain Spreads to Energy-Rich States - Wall Street Journal

Energy-rich states, flooded with cash last year when oil and natural-gas prices soared to record highs, are now being drained as gas prices plunged to a seven-year low Friday.In Te...

Energy Efficiency Could Boost South - Associated Press

ATLANTA — An aggressive strategy to replace aging equipment with more energy efficient products throughout the South would reduce the need to build more coal-fired power ...

Australia Passes Renewable Energy Laws - Reuters

Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. * Australia Senate passes renewable energy laws * Hopes raised of emissions trade deal in November * Early election o...

Energy Workers Oppose Climate Change Bill - Houston Chronicle

Many of those at the rally against the proposed climate change bill use signs to make their feelings known Tuesday at the Verizon Wireless Theater downtown. The event was the first...

Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill - New York Times

HOUSTON — Hard on the heels of the health care protests, another citizen movement seems to have sprung up, this one to oppose Washington’s attempts to tackle climate change. Bu...

Energy Prices Slump with Consumers Nervous - Associated Press

By CHRIS KAHN(AP)–22 minutes agoNEW YORK — Energy prices finished the week sharply lower, giving up more than 4 percent Friday on evidence that consumers are unlikely ...

China Snaps Up Energy Companies - Bloomberg

HONG KONG: China, unfazed by failures to invest in Rio Tinto Group and Unocal, will boost spending on oil and mining acquisitions by at least half this year to take advantage of lo...

Labor Sec'y Says Green Jobs Hiring Will Pick Up - Oskar Garcia, Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Monday that she believes hiring in the alternative energy industry will pick up in the next 12 months, but it will take longer th...

Energy Event Draws Scores - Benjamin Spillman, Las Vegas Review-Journal

About 100 people turned out Monday morning to protest the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0....

Renewable Industry Says US Moving Too Slow - Peter Henderson, Reuters

Renewable energy leaders on Monday said the United States is moving too slowly to turn the economy green, despite support of the administration of President Barack Obama....

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