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• California pushes cap-and-trade plan

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  California today issued the nation’s first blueprint for a broad-based cap-and-trade program to control global warming emissions. The pioneering effort would cap greenhouse gases emitted by more than 600 power plants, refineries, cement plants and other big factories at 15% below today’s levels by 2020. And it would ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• EPA Tangles With Texas in Battle Over Air Quality

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  A more assertive Environmental Protection Agency is demanding that Texas tighten its pollution rules, drawing the ire of companies and some of the states political leaders. At the heart of the dispute is an EPA threat to void some of the states air-quality regulations, which it says break federal law. The agency also ...
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• Security beefed up at oil depots across country: Murli Deora

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 20 (ANI): Union Government on Friday informed the Lok Sabha that it has taken a series of measures to promote safety in and around oil depots across the country. Making a suomoto statement in the lower House, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said these measures include promotion of safety consciousness ...
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• EPA Should Use Clean Air Act to Address Climate Change

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 555
  Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program *Note: Tyson Slocum is delivered this statement today at a public hearing held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on regulating greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing industrial facilities under the Clean Air Act. As we ...
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• As U.S. Refiners Recover, This Company Aims to Jump to the Next Level

  
  Investment U — Authority: 546
  As U.S. Refiners Recover, This Company Aims to Jump to the Next Level by Sheena Martin , Contributing Editor Even as U.S gas prices climb, petroleum traders still have no interest in buying right now. And why would they? The summer driving season is at an end. Consumers are still trying to save cash, ...
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• The Hidden Dangers of Energy Efficiency

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By Chris Tobias A recent event sponsored by the British High Commission on climate change and low-carbon business drew out into the open a serious issue. As many are aware, should the temperature rise as much as 4 degrees Celsius (or about 7 degrees Fahrenheit) due to climate change, some serious problems for ...
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• Petroleum and Cosmetics: What are the Potential Health Risks?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  What is petroleum?Crude oil, sometimes called petroleum, is a fossil fuel that was produced deep in the earth through a process that took millions of years to complete.Millions of years later, almost all of us come into contact with a derivative of petroleum every day. Through a process called fractional distillation, ...
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• 60 percent of additional KG-D6 allocation to power plants

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) A ministerial panel has allotted more than 60 percent of additional allocation from Reliance Industries Ltd’s D6 block in Krishna Godavari basin to the power sector.While the empowered group of ministers, chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, met on Oct 27, the minutes of the meeting ...
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• Why Google and Cisco Will Soon Manage All Your Energy Use

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By Will Sarni The IT leaders have re-entered your home and business in a whole new way. Companies like Google and Cisco are providing the tools to help consumers and businesses monitor and manage their energy use to reduce carbon emissions. So, how did this trend come about? And what does it mean for energy ...
  2 weeks ago

• American Refiners Have a Problem… And the Government is Making it Worse

  
  Investment U — Authority: 546
  American Refiners Have a Problem… And the Government is Making it Worse by Sheena Martin , Investment U Contributing Editor America’s refining companies are under severe financial pressure. As the recession has blanketed the markets, demand for petroleum products has collapsed, causing refiners to scale ...
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• Geothermal Energy Goes Hollywood

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By Susan Kraemer The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has signed a lease for exploring geothermal potential in Imperial County near the Salton Sea as part of meeting its goal to make 40% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. It is offering to lease the land, initially for 5 years of ...
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• Hurricane Idas trip through Gulf of Mexico could push oil prices higher

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Energy It has been months since a hurricane posed a real threat to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, Hurricane Ida is entering the region from the west after doing significant damage in Nicaragua. Most hurricanes that move into the Gulf end up doing very little damage to either deep sea drilling ...
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• Research Findings Throw Some Doubt Into Theory of Peak Oil

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By Nick Chambers In 1877 Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeelev suggested that the large deposits of oil and gas we find under the surface of the Earth could be made without the decay of long-dead organisms in a process called abiotic synthesis of methane. Since then the theory has been relegated to the back shelf due to ...
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• Energy Industry Tries To Sequester Global Warming Dilemma

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  The New York Times’ Matthew Wald had an interesting piece yesterday about the Energy Dept. funding “carbon capture” — a developing process where carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming are not released into the air during energy production. The capture of carbon before it enters the atmosphere ...
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• Cutting emissions may be easier without the focus on coal

  
  Eideard — Authority: 445
  Sequestration of CO₂ depends more on cost than source.
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• FUEL * Venezuela and Brazil: Seal oil refinery deal

  
  trucks world news — Authority: 148
  Caracas,Venezuela - DPA/Earth Times -31 Oct 2009: -- Venezuela and Brazil have agreed to build and operate a joint oil refinery in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco following years of negotiations... The state-owned Brazilian oil company Petrobras will own 60 per cent and its Venezuelan ...
  4 weeks ago

• Food will never be so cheap again

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 149
  From Telegraph UKBiofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors this year, or 12pc of the global crop.The world’s grain stocks have dropped from four to 2.6 months cover since 2000, despite [...]
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• Food will never be so cheap again

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 149
  From Telegraph UK Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors this year, or 12pc of the global crop. The world’s grain stocks have dropped from four to 2.6 months cover since 2000, ...
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• Nuclear Power Debate: 350 Movers, Pragmatic Greens & Fearful Opponents

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By Joe Walsh First, take a deep breath. It is difficult to do when it is your life and career day-in and day-out, but every once in a while, all of us moving in the clean tech space should stop and reflect on the breakneck pace at which everything around us is moving: technology, regulation, public awareness. Sure, ...
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