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100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAE

Story contains video Renewable Energy World, Wed September 01, 2010, comments (0)
What does it say that one of the largest producers of oil, The United Arab Emirates, is aggressively developing renewable energy? Clearly the country is thinking about a world beyond fossil energies.



Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada

CBC, Sun August 29, 2010, comments (2)
An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation.



Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands

Climate Crossroads, Fri August 27, 2010, comments (1)
Major US corporations are adding market pressure to the growing wave of opposition against tar sands expansion, giving tar sands producers a fresh reason to consider the consequences of their poor environmental street cred.



New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009

e360, Thu August 26, 2010, comments (0)
U.S. energy use fell in 2009 and Americans used more wind and solar power and less electricity generated by burning coal and natural gas, according to a survey by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory



Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air

PhysOrg, Wed August 25, 2010, comments (0)
Powering homes with electricity collected from the air may be possible after scientists report solving a centuries old riddle about how moisture in the atmosphere becomes electrically charged.



White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers pace

Business Green, Mon August 23, 2010, comments (0)
Tough new US rules governing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from large trucks and buses edged forward last week when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent draft proposals to the White House.



Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels

GizMag, Fri August 20, 2010, comments (0)
If the very idea of a spray-on film that can turn windows into solar collectors sounds too good to be true, think again.



Solar power plant plans move ahead in California

Cnet, Sun August 15, 2010, comments (1)
After a long drought, large-scale solar power is getting closer to returning to the U.S. desert.



EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate Science

EPA, Mon August 09, 2010, comments (0)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment.



Ecuador pledges no oil drilling in Amazon reserve

BBC, Tue August 03, 2010, comments (0)
Ecuador has agreed to refrain from drilling for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest reserve in return for up to $3.6bn in payments from rich countries.

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