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A powerful revival.
The first new hydroelectric power plant in the East in 20 years would double a Susquehanna dam's electrical output, providing another 100,000 homes in the region with pollution-free electricity.
Baltimore Sun.
15 June 2008
Starting to think outside the jar.
Attempts are under way to make glassmaking, an old, stable technology that requires lots of material and energy, greener.
New York Times.
15 June 2008
Ecotowns: for and against.
Ten new clean, green ‘eco-towns’ will be built by 2020. And pigs might fly, say critics. They argue that the government is bulldozing through a programme that will create the slum estates of the future.
London Times.
15 June 2008
Hearings to debate impact of solar farms on threatened species.
State and federal agencies have their hands full with an onslaught of applications from companies eyeing the Southern California desert for its solar power potential.
Riverside Press-Enterprise.
15 June 2008
More parched communities ponder desalination solution.
Massive pumps suck 25 million gallons of sea water from Tampa Bay every day, squeezing out the salt as the water travels through microscopic holes in 10,000 filters.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
15 June 2008
An amphibious assault.
Around the world, frogs and toads are falling victim to a loss of habitat, pesticides, pollution and an insidious, quick-acting fungus. And now they are going extinct faster than any other animals since the dinosaurs.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
15 June 2008
Disaster-prone deltas next climate risk-ecologist.
Some of the world's most productive and populous places -- river deltas from the Mekong to the Mississippi -- are ripe for disasters made worse by climate change, an ecological catastrophe expert said.
Reuters.
15 June 2008
Environmental group ties floods to global warming.
The disastrous floods that ravaged southern Wisconsin this week are consistent with global warming predictions by Clean Wisconsin in a January 2007 report.
Madison Capital Times.
15 June 2008
City Hall passes plan to 'green' fleet of vehicles.
Set against the backdrop of the soaring cost of gasoline and rising oil prices, city council approved last week its first-ever plan to green its corporate fleet of vehicles.
Burlington Post.
15 June 2008
Cameron: We must lead the way in tidal energy.
Britain will put "rocket boosters" behind developing tide and wave energy under a future Conservative government, David Cameron is to promise tomorrow.
London Independent.
15 June 2008
Cargo ships told to go green by slowing down.
Lumbering across the world's oceans at a leisurely pace, they seem relatively blameless compared with planes or lorries. But the role of cargo ships in exacerbating climate change is about to come under scrutiny. The solution? Slow down.
London Observer.
15 June 2008
Giant coal-fired power plant gets green subsidies.
A giant Indian company that has bought up famous British firms such as Jaguar, Land Rover and Tetley Tea is to get hundreds of millions of pounds in “green” subsidies to build one of the world’s biggest coal-fired power stations.
London Times.
15 June 2008
State coal projects hampered.
Illinois needs a lot of electricity, and the state also has a lot of coal to burn.
Bloomington Pantagraph.
15 June 2008
China top carbon emitter, Beijing under pressure.
China's ranking as top emitter of the main planet-warming gas, carbon dioxide, seemed confirmed by a Dutch report, putting more pressure on Beijing to come up with their own figures, experts said.
Reuters.
15 June 2008
Duke to perform test on air-emission controls at Cliffside.
Duke Energy Corp. says it will voluntarily assess the air-emission controls and the reductions they make in hazardous emissions at the coal unit under construction at the company's Cliffside Steam Station.
Charlotte Business Journal.
15 June 2008
G8 concerned about rising oil prices.
Soaring oil and food prices are emerging as serious threats to global economic growth, finance ministers from the world's top industrialized nations said Saturday, while vowing to work together to address the problem.
Associated Press.
15 June 2008
Canada under pressure to fund green initiative.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is under pressure this weekend to contribute a sizable portion of his shrinking budget surplus to an international fund meant to help poorer countries buy green technology.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
15 June 2008
Ameren to seek license for new nuclear plant.
Union Electric Co. withdrew plans for a second nuclear reactor in Callaway County in October 1982, but a new generation of executives is back 25 years later with plans for another plant.
Associated Press.
15 June 2008
Touring a coal mine.
Mississippi Power escorted the Meridian Star on a tour of a surface coal mine in Ackerman, hoping to show off the reclamation efforts of the coal mining company and explaining the new "clean coal" technology that Mississippi Power plans to implement in Kemper County.
Meridian Star.
15 June 2008
Pumping gas underground could provide extra crude.
Oil companies are developing a range of new technologies for extracting crude oil - the source of petrol and diesel - from the ground. One key technique involves the use of gas which is pumped into the ground at a depleted field to force out lingering oil deposits.
London Observer.
15 June 2008
Beaumont group wants to turn waste-produced methane into fuel.
In a unique operation, several organizations are in the planning stage to create a system which would collect methane gas from a landfill and convert it to hydrogen to fuel city vehicles.
Beaumont Enterprise.
15 June 2008
Seeds of biofuel about to take off, fueling jumbo jet.
If all goes well this summer, an Air New Zealand jumbo jet will take off from Auckland this fall powered by fuel refined from the seed of a fast-growing weed.
Baltimore Sun.
15 June 2008
Companies get OK to annoy polar bears.
Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
Associated Press.
15 June 2008
Undersea mission to restore coral reef.
Scientists are conducting an eight day undersea mission to determine why some species of coral survive transplanting after a disturbance, while other species die, which could lead to improved coral reef restoration.
Zee News.
15 June 2008
Battling for oil: Shades of old West in yellow grease wars.
Waste vegetable oil, that greasy stuff restaurants discard from fry cookers into 55-gallon drums or recycling bins, is becoming a pawn in an increasingly competitive market, with pickup services working to defend their rights to claim waste oil.
Manchester Union Leader.
15 June 2008
The debate continues: Environmental community remains unmoved by project changes.
When the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities announced its coal-fired power plant would be equipped with carbon capture and storage technology, environmental groups immediately renewed objections.
Jamestown New-Standard.
15 June 2008
NJ weighs bill to encourage alternative energy on farms.
New Jersey is contemplating defining solar and wind energy generation as agricultural activity.
Associated Press.
15 June 2008
