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Greenhouse gas emissions increase in US
The amount of U.S. greenhouse gases flowing into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006, the Energy Department reported Wednesday.
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Hybrid solar plant to reduce need for fossil fuel
Proclaiming green the new gold, Florida Power & Light executives on Tuesday marked the groundbreaking of the first of three new solar power projects that will eventually make the state No. 2 in the nation for energy from the sun.
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Oil and gas prices slip to new 3-year lows
Retail gasoline fell to a new three-year low Tuesday and in an unprecedented decline, crude oil costs $100 less per barrel than it did four months ago with a U.S. recession eating away at energy demand.
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EU car makers to get more time to meet CO2 cuts
European Union governments and the European Parliament struck a provisional deal Monday that gives car makers more time to meet stricter limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Quest for new climate treaty begins in earnest
Negotiators kicked off the final yearlong push Monday for a new climate change treaty - but with the U.S. government in transition, the European Union in disarray and a worldwide economic crisis, chances were hazy for a quick agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fuel-cell powered devices getting closer
Laptop, cell phone and iPod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive.
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UN: Financial crisis delaying green projects
The global financial crisis already has delayed some green energy projects, stoking fears that a shortage of investment money will lead to cheap and dirty decisions on new power plants, the U.N.'s top climate official said.
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UN climate conf. concerned about financial crisis
A U.N. climate conference has opened with warnings that the global financial crisis must not divert efforts to reach a new treaty on controlling greenhouse gas emissions.
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Pipelines race out of the mountains; into yards
In the push toward more energy independence, massive infrastructure projects that will help to deliver it have clashed with cherished rights of land ownership.
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Oil prices rise back above $50
Oil prices rose back above $50 a barrel Monday as investors gained confidence from reports that ailing U.S. bank Citigroup will get a state bailout and that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has chosen an economic team to tackle what could be the worst slowdown in decades.
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Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town
A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change.
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Fuel from food? The feast is over
In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom.
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Indiana coal-to-gas project bucks industry trend
In the heart of southwestern Indiana's coal country, Duke Energy Corp. crews are building what the company's CEO calls the power plant of the future - a $2.35 billion complex where coal will be turned into a gas, stripped of pollutants, then burned to generate electricity.
| Normal: 82.01 inches | |
| Actual: 81.8 inches | |
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