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The federal government is speeding up plans to produce more renewable fuels, announcing Friday it will spend nearly $600 million to help build plants that turn wood chips, cornstalks and algae into fuel.
TAHOE CITY - Keep the Sierra Green, with the North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce and area sponsors, honored five local businesses for their exemplary green practices at the Annual Green Business Recognition Awards Luncheon at the Cedar House Sport Hotel in Truckee. Those demonstrating the best in green performance were: Tahoe Truckee Airport District, Granlibakken Conference Center and Resort ...
VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - Boulder-based band Salem, who playsi n the Vail Valley Saturday, is not one to sit on its laurels. The band is led by Todd Anders Johnson, a social activist who certainly keeps busy working on projects that align with his beliefs. The band was in Alaska in August, toured in Seattle in October and recently they've been recording a new album in Atlanta and working to ...
The technology advocacy group hopes the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. will be a key entity that wind energy developers can work with to secure things such as submerged-land leases in Lake Erie.
A new, stimulus-funded research center at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help strengthen the very 'fiber' of America's automotive and energy industries.
The Giving Tree Band, along with Princeton's Jared Bartman, will play a benefit concert at the Prairie Arts Center at 7 p.m. today, Saturday, to benefit orphanages in Nepal. The Giving Tree Band, which plays rock music on acoustic instruments, is also a leader in sustainable energy, and recorded an album last year using only solar energy.
Thursday, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, chaired by Congressman Tim Holden of Pennsylvania, continued its review of climate change issues by examining the costs and benefits of agriculture offset proposals.
Energy Dept. teaming with private investors to create renewable fuel plants in 15 states
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Nineteen biofuel refinery projects have been selected to receive as much as $564 million in funding under the recovery program, the U.S. energy and agriculture secretaries said Friday.
What's Your Reaction? California regulators went out of this world today and gave the go-ahead to a power-purchase agreement involving the nation's first solar power plant in space.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Gintech Energy Corp. , Taiwan’s second-biggest solar-cell maker, rose to the highest in more than a year on plans to almost double its production capacity in two years to tap global demand for renewable energy.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- China Longyuan Power Group Corp. , the nation’s largest wind-power producer, raised HK$17.5 billion ($2.26 billion) in the world’s third-biggest initial public offering by an alternative energy company.
Rocky Mountain Institute wants revolution in energy industry.
The first thing Farid Khavari PhD, a proud Iranian American running for Governor of Florida, would tell you is that he is not a politician: he is an economist. "I love this country. I'm going to live here in Florida until I die. I am running for governor to change this situation."
The future of coal and indeed of our total energy picture lies in change and innovation. In fact, the future of American industrial power and our economic ability to compete globally depends on our ability to advance energy technology.
Semmelweis Syndrome, when science confronts the established powers and wealth, battles ensue.
