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The Obama administration’s energy chief asked Congress on Tuesday to consider nuclear power and other nonrenewable sources in a mandate for utilities to use more clean energy, which could attract Republicans who have opposed focusing exclusively on renewable energy like wind.

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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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Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is urging President Obama to take the best elements of Republican and Democratic proposals to come up with a comprehensive bipartisan energy plan.

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Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is urging President Obama to take the best elements of Republican and Democratic proposals to come up with a comprehensive bipartisan energy plan.

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President Barack Obama is asking Congress to pass legislation to help small business get loans and create jobs. After meeting at the White House with Democratic and Republican leaders, Obama predicted lawmakers will have a “busy agenda going forward.”

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President Barack Obama pressed Congress to scrap billions in oil company tax breaks and pass legislation to help the nation kick a dangerous “fossil fuel addiction” Wednesday, trying to channel disgust over the worsening oil disaster into a force for clean energy.

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PRINCETON, N.J.—-Seifi Ghasemi, chairman and chief executive officer of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. ,speaking today at a Credit Suisse Investment conference on the Future of Energy in Washington D.C., urged policymakers and others to recognize that “electrification of our transportation system is essential for the future.”

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Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Senate Republicans on Tuesday to work with him on energy legislation, telling them the Gulf of Mexico oil spill added urgency to those …

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THE government is pressuring the opposition to back changes to another of its faltering climate change policies – the renewable energy target – in the wake of the ditched emissions trading scheme.

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) presides over the first meeting of the National Energy Commission of China in Beijing, April 22, 2010. Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) also attended the meeting.

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