Two key House Democrats defended the Obama administration Monday against criticism that the Department of Energy is awarding loan guarantees based on politics rather than...
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Spending deal blocks Obama's wilderness policy
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan budget deal that avoids a government shutdown would block an Obama administration plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land...
Construction begins in Italy on world's first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant
Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi began building the world’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in northwestern Italy, the company said today.The first stone for...
Research survives in shutdown-avoiding agreement after earlier scare
Whew. That's what officials at U.S. science agencies and science lobbyists are saying this morning after learning the details of the weekend agreement between the...
Newly released spending deal targets health, environment, energy
Lawmakers in the House and Senate have posted details of the bipartisan spending agreement that staved off a shutdown, providing a first look at where the $39.9 billion of...
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Biofuel startup KiOR seeks to raise up to $100M in IPO
Biocrude startup KiOR filed for a $100 million IPO on Monday, laying out just how it hopes its process for turning wood chips into a crude oil substitute could compete...
Japan raises severity of nuclear accident to highest
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan raised the severity of its nuclear disaster to the highest level on Tuesday, putting it on a par with the world's worst disaster nuclear...
BMW hires lead electric-car engineer from Chevy Volt team
Not so long ago, the notion of luxury German brand BMW hiring an engineer from General Motors might have been a stretch. The company prefers to promote engineers from...
New study finds solar panels are 'contagious'
Are you more likely to install solar panels if your neighbor has them? A new study (PDF) out of Stanford says that you are. More specifically, it finds that for every 1...
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