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Senate scrambles to save tax plan

Submitted on Tags December 13th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Energy
Original news source: Boston Globe

Democratic and Republican Senate leaders made a dramatic bid last night to salvage President Obama’s tax package by adding an array of tax breaks, including ones for alternative energy projects, that could clear the way for passage next week.

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Wind turbine plan suffers setback again

Submitted on Tags December 10th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Legislation
Original news source: Asbury Park Press

UNION BEACH — The Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority’s project to erect an energy-producing wind turbine, already a three-year effort, has suffered another setback.

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Obama administration withdraws offshore drilling plan

Submitted on Tags December 5th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Legislation
Original news source: Los Angeles Times

Nine months after agreeing to allow exploratory oil and gas drilling in Atlantic and eastern Gulf of Mexico waters, the government changes course, pointing to lessons learned from the BP oil spill. Citing the lessons of the BP oil spill, the Obama administration reversed course Wednesday and pulled plans to open the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the Atlantic Coast to oil and gas …

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Canada won’t follow new U.S. plan to slash industrial greenhouse gases

Submitted on Tags December 1st, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Legislation
Original news source: Hamilton Spectator

The Harper government has no plans to follow a U.S. initiative to slash the greenhouse gas emissions of big polluters — even though Ottawa has pledged to harmonize its climate policies with the Americans.

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Canada won’t follow new U.S. plan to slash industrial greenhouse gases: Baird

Submitted on Tags November 28th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Legislation
Original news source: Times & Transcript

The Harper government has no plans to follow a U.S. initiative to slash the greenhouse gas emissions of big polluters — even though Ottawa has pledged to harmonize its climate policies with the Americans.

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East Kentucky Power stops plan for Clark plant

Submitted on Tags November 20th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Energy, TagsRenewables
Original news source: The Huntington Herald-Dispatch

WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — East Kentucky Power Cooperative has scrapped plans to build a coal-fired power plant in Clark County.

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Congressional Republicans see fighting health-care plan as a key to 2012 victory

Submitted on Tags November 16th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Legislation
Original news source: Newton Daily News

WASHINGTON (MCT) — With their eyes on the 2012 election, Republicans are preparing to maximize conflict with Democrats over health care in the new Congress and minimize potential compromises, GOP strategists, lawmakers and lobbyists say.

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Obama Drops Plan To Limit Greenhouse Gases

Submitted on Tags November 8th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Legislation
Original news source: KTVZ Bend

Environmental groups and industry seem headed for another battle over regulation of greenhouse gases, as President Barack Obama said he will look for ways to control global warming pollution other than Congress placing a ceiling on it.

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Angela Merkel atom plant plan sparks protest

Submitted on Tags October 30th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Energy, TagsRenewables
Original news source: The Scotsman

Greenpeace activists rappelled from the roof of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party headquarters to hang a massive anti-nuclear banner yesterday – one of several protests ag

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Calif. Regulators Adopt Aggresive Energy Plan

Submitted on Tags September 28th, 2010 by CTNews
Posted in Tags Energy, TagsRenewables
Original news source: KSBW Salinas

California regulators have adopted the nation’s most aggressive clean energy standards for power companies, which will have to get one-third of their electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind within a decade.

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