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VONORE, TN–(Marketwire – November 15, 2010) – More than 120 crop producers, landowners and USDA representatives will visit DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol’s (DDCE) and Genera Energy’s demonstration-scale facility in Vonore, Tenn., on November 17, as part of the Farm Foundation’s “Renewable Energy Biomass Education Field Days.”

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FirstEnergy Corp. has abandoned plans to burn wood instead of coal at an eastern Ohio power plant and will shut down the plant’s coal-fired boilers.

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The University has accepted an additional $11 million from BP to support the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, adding to the $19 million it has received over the last decade through CMI’s partnership with the oil company.

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East Kentucky Power officials say they’re now looking for new energy efficiency programs and renewable energy options instead.

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The Philadelphia Eagles are taking their gridiron off the grid.

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The board of directors of New Jersey Resources has unanimously declared a 5.9 percent increase in the quarterly dividend rate to $.36 per share from $.34 per share. The new quarterly rate will be effective with the dividend payable January 3, 2011 to shareowners of record on December 15, 2010.

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Whether it’s a startup in need of capital to power growth or a bigger company looking for a new source of growth through an emerging sector, more deals are being done.

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Texas faces a budget shortfall of up to $25 billion over the next two years – that’s about a quarter of what Texas spends now. So public universities and other state agencies are bracing for potentially damaging cuts.

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University of Rhode Island scientists spent more than two years developing scientific standards to measure the effects of a wind farm off the state’s coast. Now the federal government wants to borrow that knowledge for its national standards.

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