positive Climate and Energy news
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100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAEWhat 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. |
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Cannabis electric car to be made in CanadaAn electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation. |
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Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar SandsMajor 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. |
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New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009U.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 |
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Scientists hope to collect electricity from the airPowering 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. |
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White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers paceTough 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. |
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Spray-on film turns glass into solar panelsIf the very idea of a spray-on film that can turn windows into solar collectors sounds too good to be true, think again. |
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Solar power plant plans move ahead in CaliforniaAfter a long drought, large-scale solar power is getting closer to returning to the U.S. desert. |
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EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate ScienceThe 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. |
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Ecuador pledges no oil drilling in Amazon reserveEcuador 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. |
evironmental news headlines
- Norwegian government boycotts Malaysian timber giant
- 100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAE
- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Russia and China vow to protect Siberian tigers
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands
- New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009
- Smallest frog in Asia discovered in Borneo
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers pace
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Mexico City bans free plastic bags
- No deepwater drilling without environmental studies: U.S.
- A splinter of hope in the fight against illegal logging
- Solar power plant plans move ahead in California
- Cleanup of Superfund Site Completed in Morris County, New Jersey
- New Zealand retracts plans to open up rare frog habitat to mining
- Penalties promised for illegal wood sales
- EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate Science
- Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline, official figures show
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