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11 min ago | StockMarketsReview.com

Short-Term Politics Stifles Pentagon's Green Energy Ambitions

The US Defense Department consumes more energy than any other department or sector in the country, spending around $20 billion annually by some estimates; but ambitious plans to make it the nation's green leader have been swept under the rug over budgetary concerns that smack of campaign politics.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Energy, US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, US Military, US Army, US Navy

4 hrs ago | Albany Times Union

US again imposes clean-energy tariffs on China

The Obama administration moved Wednesday to impose stiff new tariffs on wind-energy towers made in China, the latest strike in an escalating trade war over clean energy.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Energy, Wind Power

8 hrs ago | Denver Post

Obama calls Romney; congratulates him on GOP nod

In this May 29, 2012 file photo, epublican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, US Politics, US News, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Texas, Alternative Energy, Energy

10 hrs ago | Times-Standard

First-ever electricity for parts of India

The solar power company SunEdison is launching a program to get electricity for the first time to more than two dozen villages in India.

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Energy, SunEdison, Semiconductors, Memc Electronic Materials, Electronics

14 hrs ago | CBS 3 Springfield

Grid operators say Germany must invest $25 billion

The operators of Germany's electricity grid said Wednesday the country must invest about a 20 billion in new transmission networks over the next decade as the nation abandons nuclear power and uses more renewable energy.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Alternative Energy, Energy, Wind Power, Holyoke, MA, Springfield, MA

18 hrs ago | Sydney Morning Herald

Power sector primed for overload

The letter from Transgrid arrived just as they were about to take the kids to the beach for the holidays.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Australia, World News, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Energy,

Tue May 29, 2012

The Times Herald

Snyder questions renewable energy ballot plan

Gov. Rick Snyder says he has serious concerns about a proposed constitutional amendment that would require Michigan utilities to produce 25 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Rick Snyder, Alternative Energy, Energy

National Public Radio

Maine Independent Aims To Be Senate King, Acknowledges Potted Plant Potential

The most potentially influential politician you've probably never heard of, former two-term Maine Gov.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Olympia Snowe, Alternative Energy, Energy, Wind Power, Joseph Lieberman

Boulder Weekly

2. The truth about renewable energy: Inexpensive, reliable, and inexhaustible

But as technological advances and plummeting costs drive explosive growth - U.S. installed wind capacity has grown sevenfold to nearly 47 gigawatts in the last seven years - real-world experience is shattering long-held assumptions every day.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Energy, Immigration Reform, us Travel, Travel

Las Cruces Sun-News

Albuquerque Mayor Berry to announce Sunport to get more solar power

Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry is set to announce that Albuquerque Sunport will be getting more solar panels to power elevators, lights and offices at the airport.

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Energy

Patch.com

Renewable Energy in Virginia: 5 Things You Need to Know

Renewable energy can be complicated and the reality is, for Virginians, electricity is relatively cheap compared to other states.

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Related Topix: Virginia, Alternative Energy, Virginia Government, Energy, Geothermal Power

Philly.com

Group: Companies might cut China investment

Frustrated by China's market barriers, European companies might shift future investment to other economies, a business group said Tuesday, in an unusually pointed warning about a possible backlash over Beijing's trade policies.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Energy

Mon May 28, 2012

WNYC-AM New York

For Future Energy, Volcanic Indonesia Bets On Heat

A local resident entertains visitors to the Kawah Kamojang geothermal field in West Java.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Geothermal Power, Energy

Daily Mail

Residents of No Name Key island in Florida upset that they are finally going to get electricity

When it comes to the remote Florida island of No Name Key, the residents of its 43 homes are practically in the midst of a civil war over a debate on green energy.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Alternative Energy, Energy, Solar Energy

Canada.com

Solar firm Day4 Energy to delist from Toronto Stock Exchange

Solar power company Day4 Energy Inc. announced a plan Monday that will see its senior management acquire the company's assets in exchange for $500,000 and assumption of its liabilities.

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The Daily Record

Scottish News: Former RAF base set to become green energy centre...

The deal at the Argyll and Bute town is the most complicated and largest under land reform legislation, according to the Scottish Government.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Strathclyde County, Scotland, United Kingdom,

Yahoo!

Green bank to accept lower rate of return

The federal government's $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation could lose 7.5 per cent of the capital it invests on unsuccessful projects, but overall it still aims to make a profit of four per cent a year.

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Bangor Daily News

Forest service battles woods fire in Danforth

Firefighters from the Maine Forest Service, Danforth and Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge were battling a 4- to 5-acre fire on top of Flagstaff Mountain in northern Washington County on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Danforth, ME, Washington County, ME, Wind Power, Alternative Energy, Energy

Sun May 27, 2012

The Daily Star

12 percent renewable energy by 2020: mission possible

In the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Lebanese government made a pledge to develop renewable energy production capacity to reach 12 percent of the total electricity supply by 2020.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Energy, Lebanon, IN, Solar Energy, Wind Power

CNet News

Solar plane midway through first intercontinental flight

Solar Impulse, a Swiss sun-powered aircraft, on Friday finished the first leg of its attempt at an intercontinental flight without using a single drop of fuel.

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Related Topix: World News, Morocco, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Energy, Science / Technology

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