by Marian Wang. Earlier this week, major news outlets ran with headlines about how a new microbe has been found eating up BP's oil, and how microbes have degraded the...
Articles from 8.26.2010
New York MTA Orders Up To 475 Compressed Natural Gas Buses from New Flyer
The Board of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has awarded New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc. a contract for up to 475...
Report: Interior Dept.'s reforms have made drilling safe enough to restart
The bipartisan think tank's finding could provide a lift to those pushing for the temporary deepwater moratorium to end early.
Scientists dispute claim from Brazilian researchers that lightning could be harnessed
By David Biello. Why do the roiling, black clouds of a thunderstorm produce lightning? Ben Franklin and others helped prove that such lightning was discharged...
Energy analyst on Bill Gates: 'Perhaps he doesn’t know that much about the physics of energy technology.'
An energy and development specialist says mass deployment of non-polluting energy technology beats a focus on research.
Florida Researchers Moving Closer to Using Termite Guts For Better Ethanol
Last time I reported on the topic of using termite guts to make next generation cellulosic ethanol cheaper and easier, it was 2008. Back then a team of researchers from...
Primaries move GOP to the right (on climate)
by Christopher Mims. One hundred percent of New Hampshire GOP senate candidates agree that man-made climate change has yet to be proved. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is...
Climate aid reaches $30 billion goal, but is it new?
OSLO (Reuters) - Aid promises from rich nations to help poor countries slow global warming are reaching the $30 billion goal agreed in Copenhagen but analysts say much of...
Cali Considers New Clean Power Feed-In Tariffs
California state regulators have spent the last few years trying to revise a program that was meant to boost small-scale renewable energy generation but wasn’t popular...
California Approves First U.S. Thermal Solar Plant
The NextEra facility is expected to be the first of several large solar power plants approved by state regulators in the next month.
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