(Reuters) - Solar installations in the United States jumped 85 percent in the first quarter of 2012 from the previous year, according to an industry report that prompted a...
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US coal use falling fast; utilities switch to gas
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Romney helped spark green-energy boom in Massachusetts
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U.S. reportedly to exempt India, South Korea—but not China—from Iran sanctions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will exempt India, South Korea and five other countries from financial sanctions in return for cutting purchases of Iranian oil,...
Obama says oil markets can handle expanded sanctions targeting Iran
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A new report from the International Energy Agency concludes that nations have been far too slow to deploy renewable power and carbon capture technologies, and to make...
Lisa Jackson says coal's problem is economics, not politics
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