President Obama issued a memorandum Tuesday calling on agencies to develop a plan for transitioning the entire federal fleet to alternative fuel vehicles by 2015.The plan...
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Interior to review proposal from Florida university to tap GulfStream for electricity
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Norway plans billion-dollar clean energy initiative for developing nations
(Reuters) - Norway wants to channel billions of dollars to renewable energies in developing nations, building on a scheme to protect tropical forests to which Oslo has...
GE buys up Irish power line monitoring company
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Vitter to block Salazar’s salary increase over drilling permits
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The new agency that regulates offshore drilling has signed a kind of peace treaty with the nation's official oceanographers, giving them more input into where and how...
IEA warns Merkel on nuclear decision
BERLIN, May 23 (UPI) -- Germany threatens European energy security by pressing ahead with its plan to drop nuclear power, the director of the International Energy Agency,...
Initial field test results of GM poplar shows ethanol yield up 81% over non-modified trees
The yield of bio-ethanol from the wood of genetically modified (GM) poplar trees from a VIB (Flanders Institue of Biotechnology) field trial is up to 81% higher than...
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