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TORONTO – Japan is taking aim at Ontario’s green energy policies.

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Greek unions are planning protest marches in the northern city of Thessaloniki against the debt-plagued country’s harsh austerity program, before Prime Minister George Papandreou’s keynote speech on the economy Saturday.

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The stagnant economy is pushing back Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s plan to build a power station in southeastern Virginia. The Henrico County-based wholesale-power cooperative said it will delay the $4 billion to $5 billion Cypress Creek Power Station project for 18 to 24 months. The plant would be built in …

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Reuters – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was confident a law extending the lives of nuclear power reactors could be passed without backing from the upper house of parliament, setting up a clash with opposition parties.

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More than 400 people turned out yesterday to hear from Gov. Bob McDonnell at his seventh town-hall meeting.

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PUBLIC CONSULTATION for a €30 million plan to place seven 118m wind turbines along the entrance to Cork Harbour will begin next week.

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Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. will move forward with a plan to install smart grid technology for its central Maryland power customers, the utility announced Monday morning. State regulators approved the smart grid project Friday, just days shy of a U.S. Department of Energy deadline to redirect the $200 million in stimulus funds it had awarded [...]

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WASHINGTON – Two New Jersey Democratic lawmakers plan to push controversial oil spill proposals after the August recess, even though the permanent sealing of the Gulf of Mexico leak has blunted momentum for the measures.

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(AP:COLUMBIA, S.C.) South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday the state must eliminate corporate income taxes and pass comprehensive tax reform in order to lower its seventh-in-the-nation unemployment rate.

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LAKE TAHOE — In past meetings surrounding the Regional Plan Update, many conservation community members have asked Tahoe Regional Planning Agency staff to include an alternative that focuses on promoting strict environmentally friendly policies.

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