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Unlocking Our Nation’s Wind Potential

Unlocking Our Nation’s Wind Potential

Wind is an important source of clean, affordable American energy. Wind power supplies nearly 5 percent of our nation’s electricity demand across 39 states, and it’s getting cheaper every year thanks to new strides in wind technology and policy. Since the 1980s, the...

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Shell Hydrogen: Balancing the Electric Power Grid

Shell Hydrogen: Balancing the Electric Power Grid

How might the transport fuel mix look 20 years from now? Will liquid fuels be in decline? And how will the world reduce CO2 from vehicles? In recent years, Shell has taken steps towards hydrogen, specifically, supplying hydrogen that can be converted to power electric...

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One out of Every 78 New US Jobs is a Solar Job

One out of Every 78 New US Jobs is a Solar Job

January 15 marked an important day for America’s clean energy economy with the release of The Solar Foundation’s annual National Solar Jobs Census, which shows the solar industry’s explosive growth is creating thousands of new, highly skilled jobs throughout the...

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Congress Delivers Critical Blow to Wind Power

Congress Delivers Critical Blow to Wind Power

As Environment America prepared to unveil its report More Wind, Less Warming: How American Wind Energy’s Rapid Growth Can Help Solve Global Warming at a press conference today, the U.S. House of Representatives showed that it continues to resist a clean energy future....

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Renewables are now Scotland’s biggest energy source

Renewables are now Scotland’s biggest energy source

If we're to protect our planet for future generations, it's paramount that governments invest in renewable sources of energy. Scotland appears to have turned that corner, after government figures revealed it's now generating more power from "clean" technologies than...

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Obama to Introduce Sweeping New Controls on Ozone Emissions

Obama to Introduce Sweeping New Controls on Ozone Emissions

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expected to release on Wednesday a contentious and long-delayed environmental regulation to curb emissions of ozone, a smog-causing pollutant linked to asthma, heart disease and premature death. The sweeping regulation, which...

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OPEC Decision Likely to Crash U.S. Fracking Industry

OPEC Decision Likely to Crash U.S. Fracking Industry

At its meeting today in Vienna, Austria, the 12 member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) voted to keep their output target unchanged despite a 30 percent slump in the oil price since June, due primarily to the explosive growth in...

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Boeing Unveils Unmanned Phantom Eye Demonstrator

Boeing Unveils Unmanned Phantom Eye Demonstrator

ST. LOUIS, July 12, 2010 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days. "Phantom Eye is the first of its kind and could open up a whole...

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Extra solar panels in Spain driving down prices

Extra solar panels in Spain driving down prices

December 23, 2008 - Cleantech Group best of the web pick Some installers and developers snatch up panels at bargain prices, while credit crunch limits others' participation. The cost of solar panels in dropping in Europe thanks to a growing inventory languishing in...

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New wind farms, subsidies planned

New wind farms, subsidies planned

Government will help install hydrogen fuel cells in homes as part of renewable energy driveIn an effort to expand the supply of renewable energy to Korean households and support its producers, the government laid out an action plan that includes the construction of a...

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