Latest news on ‘Clean Tech’
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Elusive Goal of Greening U.S. Energy
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
The Great Green Hope for lifting America’s economy is not looking so robust.
President Obama, both during his campaign and in his first year in office, has promoted [...] -
China digs in climate heels as EU summit opens
By D’Arcy Doran (AFP)
NANJING, China — Europe and China opened a summit Monday with Beijing backing fellow developing nations in pressing the rich world to take the lead on climate [...] -
Faltering Climate Deal Prodded by U.S., China Pledges
(Bloomberg) – Pledges by China and the U.S. to set numerical targets for their greenhouse-gas emissions through 2020 may reignite stalled progress for a global climate agreement at negotiations next [...]
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Alternative Energy Becoming a Little Less Alternative
The Energy Report – Over the years things like hybrid vehicles have gone from kooky concept to a common day commuter. Victor Goncalves of The Green Money Report examines how [...]
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World Leaders Put Off a Climate Change Treaty
Time – The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (APEC) isn’t generally the place for earth-shaking diplomacy. The event’s biggest achievement is usually getting world leaders to dress up in the [...]
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Climate negotiators grow impatient at lack of leadership from America
With just five days’ formal negotiations left before the start of crucial UN climate talks in Copenhagen next month, key figures in the negotiations are showing clear signs of impatience [...]
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Chinese banks to fund $1.5B Texas wind farm
By Dirk Lammers, AP Energy Writer
U.S. and Chinese companies will join up to build a 36,000-acre wind farm in Texas, showing how the industry continues to expand globally despite tough [...] -
Climate Change Policy and Safe Investing
By John Lorinc
Countries that adopt policies obliging utilities to purchase a percentage of their power from renewable sources at above-market prices — also known as a “feed-in tariff” — represent [...] -
UK’s Brown urges progress on climate pact
By DAVID STRINGER (AP)
LONDON — Failure to strike a new global deal on reducing greenhouse emissions would be catastrophic, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, urging other national leaders [...] -
Chesapeake Seeks Climate Bill Changes, More Gas Sales
(Bloomberg) — Chesapeake Energy Corp. and other natural-gas producers, unhappy with climate-change legislation they say favors competing fuels such as coal, are teaming up to tout the benefits of their [...]
