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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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MANILA, Philippines – Although its steep price remains an acceptability barrier, investor-advocates have proposed to install up to 170 megawatts of solar-powered capacity promising to plug supply gap across grids by 2011.In a press statement, the Philippine Solar Power Alliance (PSPA) noted that its submission to the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) propounded capacity installations of 110 …

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EU lawmakers have agreed to free up €146 million from uncommitted funds from the European Energy Recovery Plan to finance energy efficiency and renewables projects, MEPs said.

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President Obama is deflecting questions about his effectiveness by turning them into questions about his critics’ coziness with the oil industry.

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Chinese officials said they plan to use next week’s meeting of the Group of 20 countries in Canada to talk about global responses to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis while keeping discussion of the yuan’s value off the agenda.

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Addressing the nation, he calls for the country to wean itself off fossil fuels. He’ll meet with BP executives today.

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President Barack Obama pressed Congress to scrap billions in oil company tax breaks and pass legislation to help the nation kick a dangerous “fossil fuel addiction” Wednesday, trying to channel disgust over the worsening oil disaster into a force for clean energy.

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