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Sierra Club Declares War on Natural Gas
Texas Insider
Not long ago, the Sierra Club pushed natural gas as an alternative to coal. It would be a bridge to renewable energy like wind and solar. In 2008, Carl Pope, then executive director, told Oil and Gas Investor Report that the Sierra Club was all for ...

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Obama's Vision for Nuclear Good for Consumers
Politic365
While some continue to exert tireless effort and spend millions of tax payer dollars researching and improving upon alternative clean energy sources like wind and solar, others are wasting no time re-educating the public on the benefits of our existing ...

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Expanding the role of distributed generation in the smart grid
Fierce Smart Grid
Two-way power flow, sophisticated controls, and grid automation technologies can help bring wind, solar and other alternative energy solutions safely into the distribution grid and move it where it's needed when it's needed. Renewable power can become ...

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New draft leaks of Interior's fracking rule - BP hits rough quarter - IRS to ...
Politico
The rule would also give “authorized officers” the right to override the rules on site “if the operator can demonstrate that alternative procedures would meet or exceed the intent of the minimum standards in this rule,” according to the document.

How to formulate a sustainability program
Smart Business Network
What types of alternative energy options are available? Most large-scale projects focus on wind or solar. Wind farms take up a lot of space and must be located where wind speed is sufficient and constant enough to create electricity, and often that is ...

Week in review: Spring kicks off new season of solar fun
Clean Energy Authority
It's the first time that Mercury, an east coast solar installer, has offered a sweepstakes. Then there's Florida. Its largest utility, Florida Light & Power (FPL) announced that it will reopen its immensely popular incentive program, under which home ...

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Florida's Premier Solar PV School Expands Facilities With Grant Money
SYS-CON Media (press release)
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 04/30/12 -- In early April, Fort Lauderdale's Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) approved a $5700 contract to help renovate the main campus of US Solar Institute (USSI). In addition to a new classroom and ...

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Obama's Epic Green Fail
American Thinker
But...as Schweizer says, the 1705 Loan Guarantee Program and the 1603 Grant Program funneled billions of dollars to alternative-fuel and green-power companies. The loan guarantees and grants were earmarked for green energy projects, ...

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Bloomberg
A California Startup Taps the Sun to Pump Oil in the Middle East
Bloomberg
The alternative MacGregor is selling is a massive greenhouse packed with 20-foot-tall rectangular mirrors that direct magnified sunlight at water-filled pipes to create steam. The idea is to pipe the 600-degree steam deep into the ground to heat rock ...

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A California Startup Taps the Sun to Pump Oil in the Middle East
BusinessWeek
The alternative MacGregor is selling is a massive greenhouse packed with 20-foot-tall rectangular mirrors that direct magnified sunlight at water-filled pipes to create steam. The idea is to pipe the 600-degree steam deep into the ground to heat rock ...

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Agriculture Department Invests in Florida Renewable Energy Projects
The Ledger
That future is much closer to reality in part because of USDA rural-development investments, which have nearly doubled renewable-energy generation from wind, solar and geothermal sources since 2008. The Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for ...

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Discovery of Indian artifacts complicates Genesis solar project
Phys.Org
Howling winds uncovered a human tooth and a handful of burned bone fragments the size of quarters on a sand dune in the shadow of new solar power transmission towers. Indians say the discovery is evidence of a Native American cremation site not ...

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Discovery of Indian artifacts complicates Genesis solar project
Kansas City Star
Howling winds uncovered a human tooth and a handful of burned bone fragments the size of quarters on a sand dune in the shadow of new solar power transmission towers. Indians say the discovery is evidence of a Native American cremation site not ...

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Discovery of Indian artifacts complicates Genesis solar project
OregonLive.com
Howling winds uncovered a human tooth and a handful of burned bone fragments the size of quarters on a sand dune in the shadow of new solar power transmission towers. Indians say the discovery is evidence of a Native American cremation site not ...

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pv magazine
US solar market threatened by sharp fall in subsidies by 2014
pv magazine
Solar is competitive without subsidy in Hawaii, and it is within "striking distance" of unsubsidized retail grid parity in several sunny states with relatively high electricity rates, including California, Texas, Florida, and Nevada, as well as a set ...

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Bloomberg
Clean-Energy Requirements Targeted by ALEC, Norquist
Bloomberg
Targeting the mandates extends a debate in Washington to state legislatures, where incentives to develop solar, wind, geothermal and other alternate energy sources have had bipartisan support. Twenty-nine states and Washington, DC, now have mandates, ...

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Earth Day technology: the spray-on solar panel?
Alaska Dispatch
The solar energy industry is thinking beyond the roof. Instead of those large flat rooftop solar arrays, some companies are trying to convince architects and builders to use windows to generate electricity using nearly transparent plastic film that can ...

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Christian Science Monitor
Earth Day technology: the spray-on solar panel?
Christian Science Monitor
New firms are challenging conventional rooftop solar by using thin-film technology on windows and even indoors. On this Earth Day, conventional Chinese companies are the cost leaders. But US firms have the technical edge. By Ron Scherer, Staff writer ...

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Daily Beast
Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis With Heidi Cullen
Daily Beast
Because of the dry, windy conditions, wildfires and brush fires have been raging along the East Coast from New England to Florida; billowing black clouds from New Jersey Meadowlands fires have been visible from midtown Manhattan.

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The Record Courier
Record Courier (blog)
The Democrats plan to replace fossil fuels with renewable resources: biofuels, wind and solar generated electricity. But biofuels cost more to produce than their petroleum counterparts, and significantly reduce fuel mileage. [The diversion of food to ...

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