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• Study of Desert Rock’s impact on endangered species due soon

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 591
  In September, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the air permit it had issued in 2008 for a coal-fired power plant to be built near Farmington, saying the decision was made in part because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department hadn’t yet completed a study of potential impacts of the project on ...
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• Cap and Fade

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 143
  Image via Wikipedia AT the international climate talks in Copenhagen, President Obama is expected to announce that the United States wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. But at the heart of his plan is cap and trade , a market-based ...
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• Solar Power In Your Homes

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 572
  As we continue to be more aware of our degrading environmental situation, home generated solar power is becoming more and more a practical solution. Solar power leaves a minimal carbon footprint, which means that it doesn’t contribute to unfavored environmental effects such as global warming. Solar power doesn’t ...
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• Scope of the expression Customized Software, standard software and exemption from Indirect taxes

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 454
  Based on the aforementioned observation, the CESTAT held that the software imported by Appellant was only modified packaged software and not „Customized Software? and would not be eligible to the exemption under the subject notification, which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
  2 days ago

• Note from Sunderbans to fight climate change at Copenhagen

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Sunderban (West Bengal), Dec 6 (ANI) : In the face of mounting pressure on world bodies to cut their carbon emissions, residents in the Sunderbans delta of West Bengal are using electricity generated from solar power, thereby contributing their bit towards the carbon emission cut.The lives of the people living in ...
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• Wind Power Winds up China’s Competitors

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 621
  Andrew Peaple reports on the side effects to China’s green push for wind power . From the Wall Street Journal : Beijing has big plans for wind power as a renewable energy of the future, but China may already have too much of a good thing. At home, China’s power-transmission infrastructure can’t handle ...
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• Key dates in story of a warming planet, our Earth

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 128
  The issue of climate change has been around a lot longer than most people know. I’m one of them. I listened to a cassette tape of author/conservationist Dave Foreman reading from his book “Confessioins of an Eco-Warrior” a few weeks ago and he mentions the “greenhouse effect” in the opening essay. Here’s ...
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• Tell EPA : Make Mega-Polluters Clean Up

  
  Endangered Spaces blog — Authority: 115
  Did you know that only a handful of factories and power plants emit over half of all U.S. global warming pollution? Under a proposed rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), these mega-polluters would be forced to clean up their act. But the EPA must solicit public comments before it can take action. ...
  3 days ago

• Closing coal plants and lack of need in PJM

  
  Legalectric — Authority: 117
  We all know “need” for electricity is down, down, down: PJM 2009 3rd Quarter State of the Market Take a few minutes and scan that report — it’s telling it like it is.  Prices down 40+ % and demand down at least 4+% this year so far (that’s what they’ll admit to, and I figure it’s a lot worse than ...
  3 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  3 days ago

• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Wind Turbines Don’t Hurt Property Values

  
  Green Options — Authority: 150
  A new comprehensive study — The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis — conclusively shows that property values are not harmed by wind turbines and wind power facilities . The study, conducted by Lawrence Berkely National ...
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• India’s Objective to cut Carbon Intensity 20-25% by 2020

  
  Ub News — Authority: 540
  India’s Objective to cut Carbon Intensity 20-25% by 2020 – India’s objective is to cut carbon intensity by 20-25% by year 2020 as compared to the 2005 levels, the last main emitter to plight targets that could encourage chances of a breakthrough in next week’s global climate talks. By the carbon intensity, it ...
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• New power plant can provide electricity with zero CO2 emissions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, December 4 (ANI): A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere.Postdoctoral associate Thomas Adams and Paul I. Barton, the Lammot du Pont Professor of ...
  4 days ago

• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Green light for world’s first space-based solar farm

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 115
  image: Mafic Studios Could this be another sign that Jerry Brown’s return to the California governorship is imminent? As I write Thursday in The New York Times, the state’s public utilities commission has greenlighted a contract for the world’s first orbiting solar power plant: California regulators on ...
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• Breaking News: Senator Byrd Calls on Coal Industry to Enbrace Change

  
  KFTC Blog — Authority: 124
  12/03/2009   Coal Must Embrace The Future U.S. Senator Robert Byrd Washington, D.C. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; ...
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• L.A. inches toward solar with new Owens Lake proposal (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryFor many in the Owens River Valley in Southern California, Owens Lake was their livelihood. In 1913, Los Angeles siphoned the water for city use — across a mountain range and more than 200 miles. The resulting aqueduct was considered by many to be a crime against the people in the surrounding ...
  5 days ago

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