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Viridity Energy , a Philadelphia-area smart grid company, received a $900,000 grant for its pilot project with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). Viridity Energy will deploy its software optimization system to allow SEPTA to recycle the energy created from the regenerative braking ability of trains and trolleys at a high-use propulsion substation in Philadelphia …

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WASHINGTON — When PennEnvironment organizer Adam Garber got the news, he was sitting in a café in the Hart Senate Office Building with four energetic Pennsylvanians in town to lobby for a comprehensive climate bill. “I almost don’t want to check,” he said Thursday afternoon, reaching for his BlackBerry. The news alert confirmed Mr.

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U.S. EPA released proposed rules today for smog and soot-forming emissions from power plants, setting up the start of a rulem…

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ATHENS – A group of scientists, engineers and architects from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Columbia University Earth Institute recently outlined a plan to phase out CO2 emissions from coal use in the US by 2030.

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ATHENS – A group of scientists, engineers and architects from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Columbia University Earth Institute recently outlined a plan to phase out CO2 emissions from coal use in the US by 2030.

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NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – 06/01/10) – Con Edison’s greenhouse gas emissions plunged 36 percent, or by about 2.4 million tons, between 2005 and 2009, mainly due to the use of cleaner burning fuels and reliability upgrades at company steam plants and substations, according to the company’s 2009 Sustainability Report, now available at www.coned.com/sustainability . The …

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HOUSTON — Element Markets, LLC, a Houston-based greenhouse gas and renewable energy developer and supplier of environmental credits, today announced that it has been recognized in the 2009 Energy Risk Environmental Rankings for its exemplary performance in the US environmental credit markets.

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Critics of legislation that would lay the groundwork in New Mexico for a future regional or federal cap-and-trade program are pleading with state lawmakers not to pass the measure.

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GURGAON, India — It was supposed to be a showcase for how the United States and India can find common cause in fighting climate change: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured an innovative, energy-efficient office building on Sunday in this city on the outskirts of New Delhi.

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Plans to reduce rising emissions from global shipping have faltered at a key international meeting. The International Maritime Organization delayed a decision to raise the cost of ships’ fuel and use the money to help poor nations tackle climate change.

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