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World's largest solar plant wins key approval
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The world's largest solar power plant cleared an important hurdle on Wednesday, laying the groundwork for a dramatic expansion in solar...
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Former FCC chair & team drafting new energy bill aimed at 'lowering the cost of clean'
Former FCC Chairman turned green policy advocate Reed Hundt said in an interview this week that he, along with John Podesta's Center for American and Al Gore's...
Excess coal dust found inside West Virginia mine that exploded in April
West Virginia's Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine contained excess amounts of combustible coal dust when an explosion ripped through it withdeadly results in April, the...
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Two top DOE officials leave their posts
Two big departures — and a promotion — at the Energy Department: Undersecretary for Energy Kristina Johnson and Matt Rogers, who advises Secretary Steven Chu on...
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Busted well to be 'completely sealed' by Saturday: BP
AFP - BP plans to put a death choke on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well Saturday, permanently sealing the well and capping a months-long effort to end the worst maritime...
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Senate confirms final White House Science Policy nominee
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Carl Wieman as associate director for science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Nobel physics laureate is expected...
Greenpeace: Unfriend Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg if he won’t ditch coal
Greenpeace took another swipe at Facebook for running its new Oregon data center partially on coal-with an eye-catching animated video calling on viewers to unfriend...
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Six important Senate races pit climate heroes against global warming deniers
A Wonk Room analysis finds that there are six key Senate races for climate action, in which a strong vote for climate runs a serious risk of being replaced by a global...
Gulf Oil Spill: Bacteria mainly ate the gas, not the oil
Bacteria that attacked the plumes of oil and gas from the Deepwater Horizon gusher in the Gulf of Mexico mainly digested natural gas spewing from the wellhead — propane,...
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Li-ion startup says its portable electronics batteries store 2X the energy of anything on the market
Thanks to nanostructured silicon electrodes, Battery startup Amprius claims it has developed batteries with twice as much storage capacity compared to anything on the...
Drillers Fault Study on Moratorium Losses
The Obama administration says the suspension of deepwater oil and gas drilling caused only modest job and economic losses, but...
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