Environment

Developers Lament Loss of Federal Wind Subsidies in Canada

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Wed, 2010/03/10 - 1:08pm
"The failure to extend and expand the ecoENERGY program will slow wind energy development and reduce our ability to compete with the United States," a wind industry representative said.
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California Utility Regulators Not Quite Ready for Fuel Cells

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Wed, 2010/03/10 - 10:31am
While Google, Wal-Mart and other corporations have embraced fuel cells, California regulators have turned down requests from the state's two biggest utilities to install the technology.
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Increasing Yields and Decreasing Fertilizer Waste on Subsistence Farms

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Wed, 2010/03/10 - 8:48am
A new agricultural technology that cuts nitrogen fertilizer waste in half while boosting rice yields is spreading quickly in Bangladesh and other poor nations.
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Alberta's Tar Sands and the Dead Duck Trial

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Wed, 2010/03/10 - 7:30am
Syncrude, the Canadian oil sands giant, is defending itself against criminal charges for the deaths of thousands of birds in one of its tailings ponds.
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California to Regulate 'Most Potent' Greenhouse Gas

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Wed, 2010/03/10 - 6:31am
Starting in 2011, California will regulate emissions from electric utility equipment of the gas sulfur hexafluoride -- or SF6 -- which is used in high voltage transmission systems in circuit breakers, switches and insulation.
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Condor Lays Egg in National Park

NYT - Environment - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 10:18pm
Biologists in central California reported finding the first such egg at Pinnacles National Monument in more than a century.

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China and India to Join Copenhagen Climate Change Accord

NYT - Environment - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 9:06pm
The countries are the last two major economic powers to agree with the aims of the nonbinding agreement.

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Debating the Nuclear Waste Problem

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 1:16pm
Speaking at a nuclear energy conference in Washington Tuesday, representatives of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission suggested that a new, long-term policy on nuclear waste storage was sorely needed.
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A Rough Rollout for Smart Meters in Texas

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 12:15pm
Hundreds of homeowners are complaining that their newly installed "smart" electric meters are inaccurately raising their electric bills.
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A Deal to Save the Everglades Could Rescue U.S. Sugar Instead

NYT - Environment - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 11:30am
Florida’s plan to reclaim the wetlands is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.

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Drought Has Venezuela Looking at Alternatives to Hydropower

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 10:00am
A severe drought is forcing the country -- which is heavily reliant on hydropower for its electricity needs -- to explore alternatives.
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Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates

NYT - Environment - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 9:16am
The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.

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Scientists Develop Highly Recyclable Plastic

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 9:00am
Researchers at I.B.M. and Stanford University said Tuesday that they have discovered a new way to make plastics that can be continuously recycled or developed for novel uses in health care and microelectronics.
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Congo Dam Projects Evolve and Draw Critics

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 8:16am
An Australian company appears ready to build a $3.5 billion hydroelectric plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo to power a $5 billion dollar aluminum smelter.
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Energy Department Defends Funding of Foreign-Owned Renewables Projects

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 6:35am
The Energy Department last week defended its distribution of stimulus funding to some foreign developers of renewable energy projects, saying the grants were creating American jobs.
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After Boom and Bust, Solar Power Has a Place in the Spanish Sun

NYT - Environment - Tue, 2010/03/09 - 5:19am
A national commitment to solar power transformed one community but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth.

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Observatory: Scientists Propose a More Efficient Way to Make Ethanol

NYT - Environment - Mon, 2010/03/08 - 10:25pm
Researchers said they found a way to break down lignocellulose, the basic structural material of all plants, to make fuel from crop waste.

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European Activists Sue Over Biofuels Studies

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Mon, 2010/03/08 - 5:00pm
The groups sued the European Commission for failing to release studies investigating the impact of biofuels on the environment. The commission says the legal action was premature.
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Counting 'Outsourced' Greenhouse Gas Emissions

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Mon, 2010/03/08 - 1:00pm
A new analysis aims to quantify how much of each nation's carbon dioxide consumption is produced locally and how much is "embedded" in imported goods.
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I.B.M. Opens Energy Lab in Beijing

NYT - Green Inc. Blog - Mon, 2010/03/08 - 11:21am
The technology giant aims to develop smart grid software for deployment in China -- and eventual expansion to the global market.
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