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AP
AP
South Korea Wednesday unveiled a five-year plan to spend $36 billion developing renewable energy as its next economic growth engine.
AFP
The place where the ocean’s cold deep water blends with the warmer water of the upper ocean is on the move due to climate change, new research reveals.
LiveScience
Two months after a judge found flaws in the government’s environmental assessment of oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea, federal regulators released a revised analysis that was immediately denounced by environmental and Alaska Native groups.
AP
GE wants to make solar power as big a business for it as wind power is today — and it’s starting to look to thin-film solar technology to do it.
GigaOm
The death of cap and trade doesn’t have to mean the death of climate policy. The alternative revolves around much more, and much better organized, financing for clean energy research.
New York Times
The Obama administration is lifting the six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill, officials said Tuesday.
AP
Drivers have seen gas pump prices jump by nearly a dime a gallon in the past week because of a rally in prices for oil and corn, from which the gas additive ethanol is made.
AP
Guardian
Trans-Elect, a developer of transmission lines, will unveil a plan on Tuesday to build a high-voltage cable to carry power from future offshore wind farms to U.S. East Coast.
Reuters
A new poll shows that the president would lead the former Alaska governor by 16 points.
Politico
The head of Royal Dutch Shell says that his company would never have made the mistakes that led to BP’s devastating Gulf spill.
AP
Representatives of four Marcellus Shale firms offered ideas for structuring a state severance tax on natural gas production during a meeting Monday with Gov. Ed Rendell, but a legislative compromise on the issue remained elusive.
The Citizens Voice
The amount of money that the World Bank is lending for fossil fuel energy projects – coal in particular – is rising faster than ever, even though it said only two years ago in a policy document that climate change posed one of the greatest threats to poor countries.
New York Times
As the country struggles to retain its global competitiveness while retaining its current energy production levels, the Australian Parliament has decided to put a price on coal emissions.
Int'l Business Times
The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including large parts of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a new study finds.
LiveScience
Experts should be able to provide reliable seasonal climate forecasts on temperatures and rainfall levels a year in advance within a decade, a senior UN scientist said on Monday.
Reuters
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