SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Federal officials on Friday approved a plan that sets aside 445 square miles of public land for the development of large-scale solar power plants,...
Articles from 10.16.2012
World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules
A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in...
Coal ash decision stymied in election year
The ash left after burning coal includes toxic elements such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, selenium and mercury. Produced by 431 coal-fired power plants, which supply 36...
Koch Industries defends GOP-favoring election letter to employees as 'not unusual'
A letter Koch Industries sent this month to employees that noted of company-wide “consequences” if GOP candidates lose elections on Nov. 6 was meant to “encourage...
T. Boone’s wind farm plans finally blow away
Four years after the Pickens Plan was first announced, former oil baron T. Boone Pickens finally sells off his stake in the planned wind farm in Minnesota.
Rosneft considering African oil pipeline
MOSCOW, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Russian media reports oil company Rosneft may take part in the construction of an oil pipeline in Africa, its first such effort in an overseas...
Record 44% concentrated PV efficiency from startup Solar Junction
Solar Junction has hit an NREL-verified 44 percent cell efficiency, an improvement over the previous record, also set by Solar Junction with 43.5 percent.
South Korea doubles 2013 emissions reduction target to 3%
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has doubled a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by local industrial and power sectors in 2013 to enhance competitiveness prior to a...
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