CleanTechies News (beta):

Senator John Rockefeller of West Virginia on Thursday said he would seek a vote before the end of the current congressional session on his bill to postpone Environmental Protection Agency regulation of smokestack carbon dioxide emissions for two years.

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Researchers are combing southern New England in search of rocks that will produce energy from deep within the earth.

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Jordan, Finland seek stronger partnership

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Civilization is steadily creeping toward the fossilized remains of animals that once roamed what is now the Mojave Desert during long-ago ice ages. The bones poke silently from chalky, beige soil where they died.

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The Australian Greens plan “fast and furious” action to establish a climate change committee and impose a price on carbon emissions under a government led by the Labor Party’s Julia Gillard.

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Wonderland Greyhound Park’s decision to close and lay off its 85 employees renewed a Beacon Hill blame game on failed expanded gambling negotiations and spurred House Speaker Robert DeLeo to reveal plans Thursday to pour $2 million into retraining track workers displaced amid the industry’s contraction this month.

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US Senate Democrats seek to end Big Oil tax break

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Genesis Energy has decided to seek resource consent for a wind farm near Masterton in the northern Wairarapa, having already signed land use agreements covering 30,000 hectares of land

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Eight communities have sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski urging the Alaska Republican to withdraw a bill allowing a Native corporation to privatize select lands in the nation’s largest national forest.

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A coalition representing governors of 29 states is urging the federal government to take steps to boost wind energy, such as requiring utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2012.

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