CleanTechies News (beta):

June 17 (Bloomberg) — Democrats didn’t settle on proposals to be included in “clean-energy” legislation to be taken up next month, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.

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Chinese officials said they plan to use next week’s meeting of the Group of 20 countries in Canada to talk about global responses to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis while keeping discussion of the yuan’s value off the agenda.

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Ask Pictet Clean Energy Fund manager Philippe de Weck where he finds investment value in a world more concerned about the economic recession than reducing emissions and the short answer is in technology pioneers.

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April 12 (Bloomberg) — Global investments in renewable energy surged 31 percent in the first quarter from the same period last year, driven by wind power and demand in China, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said.

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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, historically the biggest commercial lender for renewable energy projects, has scaled back loans to the industry since the U.K. government bailed out the company in 2008.

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March 1 (Bloomberg) — Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. agreed with the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development to advise Indonesia on funding renewable energy projects as the country plans to boost power generation.

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Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — India, the world’s fourth-largest polluter, plans to levy a tax on coal and use the money to start a national fund to back renewable energy projects.

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Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Manufacturing in the New York region expanded in February at the fastest pace in four months as companies boosted payrolls in anticipation of accelerating orders and sales.

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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama ’s cabinet endorsed planned legislation to offer 100 billion ($1.1 billion) in low-interest loans to developers of electric cars and solar and nuclear power.

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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Innovation Network Corporation of Japan , the government-backed investment fund started in July, is looking at the nation’s automotive industry and technology companies for its first investment, an executive said.

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