CleanTechies News (beta):

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

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The owner of a proposed $25 million ethanol plant expects to add other businesses and a training center to the 33-acre site located two miles west of downtown.

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Wisconsin Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner says he wants Republicans to rebrand but keep the global warming committee devised by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and maligned by many conservatives.

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Scotland’s biggest white elephant, an empty microchip factory in Gordon Brown’s East Dunfermline constituency, may finally have found a future after it was acquired by the former chairman of Newcastle United.

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Home owners will be able to fit their properties with energy-saving insulation at no upfront cost from the end of 2012 the government has announced.

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Monday that it would require significantly more environmental review before approving new offshore drilling permits, ending a practice in which government regulators essentially rubber-stamped potentially hazardous deepwater projects like BP’s out-of-control well.

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Taiwan’s Penghu group of islands plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to expand their wind power capacities an official said Wednesday.

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Strong support and some concerns about the Luke Air Force Base solar project expressed.

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