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25/5/2013
Germany must shield its consumers from paying too much of the cost of its ambitious switch from nuclear power and fossil fuels towards renewable energy, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.
The IEA also said that Germany, with ...
22/5/2013
Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a 'green revolution' in Europe's biggest power market. A year on, Peter Altmaier finds himself spurned by many environmentalists, disdained by ...
9/5/2013
The chief of the UK's £3bn green investment bank is preparing to move the bank to borrowing and raising debt, in order to vastly expand its scope in bringing forward renewable energy and other environmental projects across the ...
18/4/2013
Chevron Corp. (CVX) helped write the first-in-the-nation rule ordering reduced carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Its biofuels chief spoke at the ceremony where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order in 2007, the ...
17/4/2013
The National Trust has revealed a plan to generate half of its power from renewable sources by 2020.
The trust already has 150 individual renewables schemes, but the new document projects how fossil fuel will be reduced across its ...
3/4/2013
The forests of Kahuzi-Biega Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been pillaged for timber, minerals and wild game. But thanks to an ambitious environmental proposal, their most valuable resource may be the carbon in the ...
2/4/2013
By most measures of environmental policy and progress, Ontario, Canada ranks well. Over the last half-century, Canada’s most populous province required cities and industries to treat every gallon of wastewater, dramatically reduced the level of ...
13/3/2013
The Bagpipe, a woody knoll in northern Hesse, can only be recommended to hikers with reservations. This here is lumberjack country. Broad, clear-cut lanes crisscross the area. The tracks of heavy vehicles can be seen in the snow. And there is a ...
2/3/2013
President Obama promises executive action on global warming, if Congress fails to enact climate legislation. Now Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont have introduced a climate bill that includes, among other ...
9/2/2013
With President Obama promising more action during his second term to curb climate change, observers and experts are increasingly predicting that the next likely step for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a move to reduce greenhouse ...
14/1/2013
Biofuel refinery in new industrial zone in Tapachula, an exporting city on the coast of Chiapas. With plans for expansion, there is a coffee plant to its left and an oil refinery being built on its right. Mexico is currently laying the foundation ...
30/12/2012
Yes, elections do have consequences, and those associated with a likely continuation of disastrous Obama administration energy policies will be huge. Now in this coming new year, with his hold on the Oval Office secure for a final term, the ...
14/12/2012
Largely due to destruction caused by recent climate-related extreme weather events in the U.S., there is a new urgency in our nation to adopt additional carbon pollution reduction measures. In 2011 and 2012, 21 such events each caused $1 billion ...
10/12/2012
The starting gun has sounded for the United Kingdom's "dash for gas," as the media here have dubbed it.
As early as this week, a moratorium on shale gas production is expected to be lifted. And plans to streamline and speed the ...
8/11/2012
The topic of climate change was largely absent from both campaigns until Superstorm Sandy hit. While the storm may not have been caused by a changing climate, it highlighted the challenges to come if global warming is to take hold.
To ...
8/11/2012
President Obama has gained a second term in which a shale gas and oil boom seems likely to write a new chapter in America's energy future with or without help from a politically fractured Washington, D.C.
If past precedents hold, Obama ...
3/11/2012
Alberta paid out $42 million in the last fiscal year to a half-dozen companies to encourage bioenergy production, but five failed to file required annual reports and the sixth submitted information showing it had not met requirements of the ...
11/10/2012
Germany's environment minister outlined plans on Thursday to limit support for wind energy and
biomass generation following a similar cap imposed on the photovoltaic sector, as part of a proposed reform of renewable energy policy.
Peter ...
30/8/2012
The extent to which the Republican Party plans to eviscerate US environmental protection rules and dramatically increase support for fossil fuel production was again laid bare this week, as the Platform document adopted at the GOP Convention ...
24/7/2012
Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers are close to reaching agreement on cuts to wind-farm subsidies amid criticism that the Coalition parties are pursuing two different energy policies – and that the Chancellor, George Osborne, is engaged ...
10/7/2012
The world is warming, incomes are rising, and smaller families are living in larger houses in hotter places. One result is a booming market for air conditioning -- world sales in 2011 were up 13 percent over 2010, and that growth is expected to ...
24/6/2012
A combination of labor, business and government officials will launch their
opposition to a proposed 25 percent statewide renewable energy mandate in Detroit on Monday.
The Clean Affordable Renewable Energy for Michigan Coalition is ...
16/6/2012
A surge in domestic oil and natural gas production and a decline in national political support for grain-fed biofuels threatens to cripple Iowa’s more than $20 billion renewable energy industry just as it has matured into a major force in the ...
22/5/2012
Chile has enormous potential for producing non-conventional renewable energies (NCRE) like solar and geothermal, yet they only contribute three percent of the country's energy mix.
Huge hydropower companies, exploiting many of the rivers ...
27/4/2012
Coal mining took off in Virginia when the railroads arrived in the 1880s. More than 130 years later, coal still fuels Virginia`s economy. Northern Virginia`s tech sector depends on a steady supply of low-cost electricity, much of it derived from ...