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Coal tax credits become gubernatorial election issue - TriCities.com
May 23rd 2013, 00:03


Coal tax credits become gubernatorial election issue
TriCities.com
Coal fueled the Industrial Revolution, which made our lives a whole lot easier than most of our ancestors' years of unremitting toil. Throughout the 20th century, coal fired the electric grid and enabled the nation's steel mills to yield metal to build ...

Coal transfer plan pushed by Surrey-Fraser Docks, but area residents aren't ... - The Province
May 22nd 2013, 23:56


The Province

Coal transfer plan pushed by Surrey-Fraser Docks, but area residents aren't ...
The Province
Jeff Scott, president and CEO of Fraser Surrey Docks, needs to turn his business around and he hopes a new $15-million coal transfer plan to ship four million tonnes of U.S. coal a year is the answer. Residents and environmentalists think it's the ...
Fraser Surrey Docks outlines coal transfer precautions as opposition continues Straight.com

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Groups ask for big picture look at NW coal ports - Seattle Post Intelligencer
May 22nd 2013, 23:50


Seattle Post Intelligencer

Groups ask for big picture look at NW coal ports
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The groups filed a formal petition Wednesday asking the corps to consider all three ports together — two in Washington and one in Oregon — as well as the environmental and health effects of more coal mining, massive coal trains and greenhouse gas ...
Groups ask big picture look at coal ports The Seattle Times
Coal wars cont'd: Foes seek collective export site studies Sustainable Business Oregon
Coalition seeks area-wide review for US Northwest coal terminals Platts

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Green energy could save Britain up to £100 billion, says Government climate ... - Telegraph.co.uk
May 22nd 2013, 23:01


Telegraph.co.uk

Green energy could save Britain up to £100 billion, says Government climate ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The Committee on Climate Change acknowledged that paying for "green" energy may be costly in the short term but it will actually save the country up to £100 billion in the long run. The Prime Minister has been under pressure from his backbenchers to ...
Switch to low-carbon future would save households £1600 The Independent
Climate Committee warns 'dash for gas' more costly than low carbon energy mix Business Green

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Switch to low-carbon future would save households £1600 - The Independent
May 22nd 2013, 23:01


The Independent

Switch to low-carbon future would save households £1600
The Independent
Science · Environment · Climate Change · Green Living · Nature · Media · Opinion · TV & Radio · Press · Online · Advertising · Technology · Education · News · Schools · Further · Higher · Primary Tables 2011 · Secondary Tables 2012 · Training & Courses ...

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Coal goons get life in twin murder case - Times of India
May 22nd 2013, 22:54


Coal goons get life in twin murder case
Times of India
Coal goons Seikh Amin and Seikh Sahajahan were sentenced to life imprisonment by the additional district sessions judge of Durgapur on Wednesday in connection with the twin murders of Siba Singh and Seikh Jakir at a saw mill in Laudoha in 2009.

Students ponder the future of green energy - Napa Valley Register
May 22nd 2013, 22:36


Students ponder the future of green energy
Napa Valley Register
Students at Vintage High School presented their green technology projects to Pacific Gas & Electric this week during a school visit by gas and electric company officials. The students' projects — which included a solar-powered go-kart, wind turbines ...

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In top coal state, gas to fuel next power plant - Houston Chronicle
May 22nd 2013, 22:28


In top coal state, gas to fuel next power plant
Houston Chronicle
Black Hills Corp. is building the plant while preparing to retire three coal-fired plants in Wyoming and South Dakota. The gas-fired plant makes financial and environmental sense while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursues new rules that ...

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Tesla repays $465 million government green energy loan ahead of schedule - The Verge
May 22nd 2013, 22:02


ETF Trends

Tesla repays $465 million government green energy loan ahead of schedule
The Verge
With this repayment, Tesla becomes a success story for the Obama Administration's green energy loans program, which has been criticized by Republicans as a failed attempt to prop up alternatives to fossil fuels. Tesla was once derided as a "loser" by ...
Tesla's loan payback would give Obama a green-energy win Automotive News
Tesla's Surge Buoys Inflows to Green Energy ETF ETF Trends
Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA) Giving Obama's Green-Energy Its Biggest Win ValueWalk
Politico  - The Atlantic Wire  - Green Bay Press Gazette
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Kentucky Coal Employment Hits Lowest Level Since 1950 - WFPL
May 22nd 2013, 21:51


WUKY

Kentucky Coal Employment Hits Lowest Level Since 1950
WFPL
A quarterly report shows that the number of jobs in Kentucky's coal industry has dropped to the lowest level in at least 63 years. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet's data shows that about 13,000 people worked in the state's coal industry ...
Coal jobs in Kentucky at lowest point since 1950 Courierpress/news/gleaner/
Coal jobs at the lowest since state started keeping records, report says WKYT
Coal jobs in Ky. at lowest point since 1950 San Francisco Chronicle

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Senate passes bill to replace NV Energy coal plants, reduce oversight - Las Vegas Sun
May 22nd 2013, 21:50


San Francisco Chronicle

Senate passes bill to replace NV Energy coal plants, reduce oversight
Las Vegas Sun
A measure that would require Nevada's largest electricity provider to accelerate the closure of its coal-fired power plants and launch massive new construction projects to replace the coal plants with renewable energy and natural gas passed the Nevada ...
Retiring coal-fired plants in Nevada passes Senate MyNews3 Las Vegas KSNV
Senate advances NV Energy move to close coal-fired plant Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Tests lead to doubling of fuel cell life
May 22nd 2013, 20:03

Researchers working to improve durability in fuel cell powered buses have discovered links between electrode degradation processes and bus membrane durability. The team is quantifying the effects of electrode degradation stressors in the operating cycle of the bus on the membrane lifetime.

Green Valley Dairy recognized for Outstanding Achievement in Renewable Energy - Agri-View
May 22nd 2013, 18:19


Green Valley Dairy recognized for Outstanding Achievement in Renewable Energy
Agri-View
"If we take care of the cows, take care of the land, and take care of the people that we work with, they will take care of us," says John Jacobs (right), pictured here with one of his sons, John, Jr. Green Valley Dairy was recognized for Outstanding ...

Clean Hydraulic Fracturing Conference Announced - EIN News (press release)
May 22nd 2013, 18:03


Clean Hydraulic Fracturing Conference Announced
EIN News (press release)
The Petroleum Connection has announced The 2013 Clean Fracking Communication & Technology Conference. Advancements in hydraulic fracturing have provided an enormous benefit to the U.S. and Canadian economies. However, there are on-going ...

Scotland Gives World's Largest Wave Farm a Green Light - LiveScience.com
May 22nd 2013, 17:48


BBC News

Scotland Gives World's Largest Wave Farm a Green Light
LiveScience.com
Scotland's location on the eastern edge of the North Atlantic makes it an ideal place for wave energy and other renewable energy projects, according to Fergus Ewing, energy minister of Scotland. "With 10 percent of Europe's wave power potential and 25 ...
Ministers approve plans for world's biggest wave farm in Western Isles BBC News

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Ventura County to regulate hydraulic fracturing - San Jose Mercury News
May 22nd 2013, 16:53


Ventura County to regulate hydraulic fracturing
San Jose Mercury News
VENTURA, Calif.—Ventura County has changed its land-use process to regulate hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that some fear can contaminate groundwater. The Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to tell county managers to ...

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Coal Exports, Bad for the Environment -- Duh - Huffington Post
May 22nd 2013, 16:39


Huffington Post

Coal Exports, Bad for the Environment -- Duh
Huffington Post
Coal exports are good for the environment -- they are actually saying this. In Oregon and Washington State the coal industry has been pushing this line at town hall meetings, government hearings, and lobby visits. Peabody Energy and Arch Coal are in on ...

Coal Exports, Bad for the Environment -- Duh - Huffington Post
May 22nd 2013, 16:39


Huffington Post

Coal Exports, Bad for the Environment -- Duh
Huffington Post
Peabody Energy and Arch Coal are in on the ruse. The tenuously solvent Australian company Ambre Energy is certainly involved. So is Cloud Peak, an ironic moniker for an offshoot of the infamous Rio Tinto -- a nation-less company defiantly named after ...

Greek Yogurt May Destroy the Environment, Still Worth It - Gawker
May 22nd 2013, 16:27


Daily Mail

Greek Yogurt May Destroy the Environment, Still Worth It
Gawker
There's also the terrifying byproduct of the manufacturing process, "acid whey," which is pretty much the acid rain of a new generation, except not as destructive or horrible for the environment, terrifying name notwithstanding. Cows eat it! But cows ...
That's whey too bad for our environment! How the toxic by-product of Greek ... Daily Mail
Is Your Greek Yogurt Destroying the Earth? Pacific Standard

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China unveils details of pilot carbon-trading programme - The Guardian
May 22nd 2013, 15:59


Environment News Service

China unveils details of pilot carbon-trading programme
The Guardian
Subscribe. Subscribe to the Guardian · iPhone app · iPad edition · Kindle · Extra · Guardian Weekly · Digital edition · The Guardian home. The Guardian, Environment, User comments. News · Sport · Comment · Culture · Business · Money · Life & style ...
Act to Stop 'Climate Deniers' From Winning the Information War Environment News Service
China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 The Independent
Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research The Guardian
BigPond News  - BBC News  - The New American
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Why Britain's barren uplands have farming subsidies to blame - The Guardian
May 22nd 2013, 15:12


Why Britain's barren uplands have farming subsidies to blame
The Guardian
Even before you start reading the devastating State of Nature report, published today, you get an inkling of where the problem lies. It's illustrated in the opening pages with two dramatic photographs of upland Britain (p6). They are supposed to ...

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India's coking coal imports seen rising to 35 million tonnes in 2013/14 - Economic Times
May 22nd 2013, 14:37


Economic Times

India's coking coal imports seen rising to 35 million tonnes in 2013/14
Economic Times
Imports in the last fiscal year covered about 40 percent of India's total metallurgical, or coking, coal needs. Domestic coal reserves of 286 billion tonnes, fifth-largest in the world according to BP, mostly consist of thermal coal, which is used in ...
COLUMN - China, India may seek better quality coal: Clyde Russell Reuters India
Crisis in coal could drag growth to pits Financial Express
More bankers to sign up for Coal India's Rs.35000 cr shopping plan Livemint
Global Times  - Moneylife  - China Daily
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JSC GAZPROM NEFT : First ever hydraulic fracturing on Yamal Peninsula ... - 4-traders (press release)
May 22nd 2013, 14:13


JSC GAZPROM NEFT : First ever hydraulic fracturing on Yamal Peninsula ...
4-traders (press release)
Analysis of the results of the completed hydraulic fracturing operations and drilling which has begun at the second multi-well pad will help us understand Novoport's production potential. We plan further to apply hydraulic fracturing techniques for the ...

Scotland warned independence could cost billions in renewable subsidies - The Guardian
May 22nd 2013, 13:31


Business Green (blog)

Scotland warned independence could cost billions in renewable subsidies
The Guardian
Political tensions between the two governments are growing, raising the stakes over future renewable energy cooperation. The first minister claimed on Tuesday that a future independent Scotland could refuse to pay its £92bn share of the UK's debts if ...
A Vote for Independence will Threaten Scotland's Green Energy Boom OilPrice.com
Davey: Scottish independence threatens green energy boom Business Green (blog)
Scotland to launch wave energy sector fund Scotsman
Link2Portal
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Scotland warned independence could cost billions in renewable subsidies - The Guardian
May 22nd 2013, 13:31


Scotsman

Scotland warned independence could cost billions in renewable subsidies
The Guardian
Private sector investors have repeatedly warned that they will reconsider their investments in renewables in the UK if the political environment is perceived to be hostile or policies liable to be revised in future. Many Tory MPs have fuelled this ...
Scotland to launch wave energy sector fund Scotsman

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Top-class biofuel from the depths of the forest
May 22nd 2013, 12:52

Tops and branches from tree-felling sites are reborn in the laboratory as compact pellets. However, the energy industry will not act until the price is right.

The secret life of internet trolls: part one - video - The Guardian
May 22nd 2013, 11:27


The Guardian

The secret life of internet trolls: part one - video
The Guardian
Subscribe. Subscribe to the Guardian · iPhone app · iPad edition · Kindle · Extra · Guardian Weekly · Digital edition · The Guardian home. The Guardian, Environment, User comments. News · Sport · Comment · Culture · Business · Money · Life & style ...

Griff Rhys Jones attacks green energy 'desecration' of countryside - The Guardian
May 22nd 2013, 10:18


The Guardian

Griff Rhys Jones attacks green energy 'desecration' of countryside
The Guardian
He also suggested the intermittent nature of renewable energy undermined its environmental credentials. "How can we effect [sic] to be green, when we use gas from uncertain fossil fuel driven sources as back up? It is logical to ask why we are ...

Griff Rhys Jones attacks green energy 'desecration' of countryside - The Guardian
May 22nd 2013, 10:18


The Guardian

Griff Rhys Jones attacks green energy 'desecration' of countryside
The Guardian
Responding to criticism of his objection to a solar farm near his home in Suffolk last week, he said it was "not really a Nimby issue," that he was not a climate sceptic and he thought the UK should be powered by new nuclear reactors, not renewable energy.

Green deal: MPs blast government for failure to quantify success - The Guardian
May 22nd 2013, 10:14


Green deal: MPs blast government for failure to quantify success
The Guardian
The green deal, the flagship environmental policy of the UK's coalition government intended to make the country's homes more energy efficient, has received a fresh blow after an influential committee of MPs blasted the government on Wednesday morning ...

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Coal's Record Slump Poised to End on Output Cuts: Energy Markets - Bloomberg
May 22nd 2013, 09:30


FuelFix

Coal's Record Slump Poised to End on Output Cuts: Energy Markets
Bloomberg
European coal's longest slump in at least eight years is poised to end as imports from the U.S. fall and further declines trigger production cuts at mines in Russia and Poland. Next-year prices have extended four quarters of losses to trade near $90 a ...
European Coal Price Slump May Have Reached an End Resource Investing News

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Why Yingli Green Energy Pulled Solar Stocks Higher - Motley Fool
May 21st 2013, 20:45


Galaxy Stocks

Why Yingli Green Energy Pulled Solar Stocks Higher
Motley Fool
What: Shares of Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE ) jumped as much as 56% in early trading after the company released better-than-expected first-quarter guidance. Shares settled down to a 17% gain as the day went on, but the jump pulled Suntech Power ...
YINGLI GREEN ENERGY HOLD. CO. LTD. (ADR) : Yingli Green Energy ... 4-traders (press release)
Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. (YGE) Bulls Placed Well-Timed Bets Schaeffers Research
Yingli Green Energy Hold. Co. Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE:YGE) & ReneSola Ltd. (ADR ... NIS
Galaxy Stocks  - SBWire (press release)  - Techsonian (press release)
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Romania Changes Course on Renewable Energy - New York Times
May 21st 2013, 12:54


New York Times

Romania Changes Course on Renewable Energy
New York Times
BUCHAREST — With more wind turbines already built than any of its neighbors, Romania has gained a reputation as a prime location for green energy investors. Yet proposals now to cut subsidies for clean energy producers have deeply alarmed foreign ...

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Ratepayers save under Ohio's green-energy law, group says - Columbus Dispatch
May 21st 2013, 06:31


Ratepayers save under Ohio's green-energy law, group says
Columbus Dispatch
The study, sponsored by a green-energy trade group, says customers' electricity bills were 1.4 percent lower than they would have been without the law, a difference of about $170 million from 2008 to 2012. That translates to a little more than a dollar ...

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DOI releases revised proposal to regulate hydraulic fracturing - Oil & Gas Journal
May 17th 2013, 12:35


DOI releases revised proposal to regulate hydraulic fracturing
Oil & Gas Journal
The US Department of the Interior released a revised proposal to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands that it said would maintain important safety standards, improve integration with existing state and tribal rules, and increase ...

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