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The nation's first space-based solar power plant, approved on Thursday by California regulators, is supposed to be turned on in 2016.
Energy/Transportation
California
Southern California Edison
Alternative Energy
India plans to cut carbon intensity, and other energy and environment news from around the Web.
Energy/Transportation
Cambodia
Canada
Alternative Energy
India
A group of Senate Democrats who are considered swing votes on pending climate change and energy legislation sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday morning detailing their conditions for backing any domestic bill or international treaty to address global warming.
Energy/Transportation
Barack Obama
Researchers at the City College of New York are working on a tiny device to produce electricity, which could have applications for electric cars.
Energy/Transportation
Energy Efficiency
A new report shows seven of Alberta's nine oil sands projects will fail to meet new clean-up rules for vast tailing ponds located near bitumen refineries.
Energy/Transportation
Canada
The long-delayed offshore wind power project in Nantucket Sound will begin negotiations with a major utility to sell the power it plans to generate.
Energy/Transportation
Cape Wind
Wind Power
Massachusetts
Alternative Energy
Coal and oil in China, electric cars in Denmark and more.
Energy/Transportation
Cambodia
Denmark
Coal Mining
China
Alternative Energy
Energy Efficiency
"The Story of Cap & Trade," which uses humor and animation to argue the short-comings of proposed Congressional policies to limit climate change, is already drawing criticism from environmentalists.
Energy/Transportation
At a conference call today, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, outlined challenges to be met at the upcoming Copenhagen climate meetings, while Senator John Kerry urged action on a climate bill under consideration in the Senate.
Energy/Transportation
Yvo de Boer
A Brazilian startup is testing the possibility of implementing a large-scale biofuels project using jatropha, a family of hardy, succulent plants.
Energy/Transportation
Brazil
Alternative Transportation
Alternative Energy
California's hydroelectric facilities could generate considerably less power over the next 40 years as a result of rising temperatures associated with climate change, according to a recent study.
Energy/Transportation
California
Alternative Energy
The bill faces defeat, which would allow the prime minister to call an early election that would be fought in large part over climate change.
Energy/Transportation
Australia
Energy Efficiency
About half of the commuters in Copenhagen use bikes to get to work, according to a Danish diplomat.
Energy/Transportation
Alternative Transportation
Denmark
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to boost the amount of ethanol allowed in the nation's gasoline.
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E.P.A. Postpones Ethanol Blend Decision
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State regulators issued a permit requiring a proposed
fertilizer plant to curb its emissions....
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Idaho Plant Gets Permit With CO2 Limits
Several major jewelry retailers pledged last week to sell gold that has been mined and produced through humane and eco-friendly methods.
Energy/Transportation
Coal Mining
In Scientific American, two California academics outline a path to a world entirely powered by wind, solar and water by 2030.
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Connie Hedegaard of Denmark has been nominated to a new 'climate action' post at the European Commission in Brussels.
Energy/Transportation
European Wind Energy Association
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Carbon dioxide as a commodity, a dispute over carbon credits for Russia, and more.
Energy/Transportation
Cambodia
Wind Power
Indonesia
Greenland
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg named Caswell F. Holloway IV commissioner of environmental protection and Vincent N. Schiraldi probation commissioner.

