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The U.S. Department of Energy said Friday that it has made $62 million available to 13 companies to test equipment and materials, such as molten salts, to add storage to solar power systems.
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- Since President Barack Obama took office, Americans have grown more satisfied with the overall quality of the environment in the United States, according to the latest Gallup Poll.
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- The US Senate approved a massive job-creation bill on Wednesday that restores a $1 a gallon biodiesel tax credit for 2010 that had expired at the end of last year.
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- President Barack Obama met with 14 senators from both parties at the White House on Tuesday as his administration stepped up efforts to win bipartisan support for a comprehensive climate and energy bi...
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- Bipartisan legislation that promises the largest federal investment ever to clean up the Great Lakes - $650 million annually for the next five years - has been introduced in the Senate and in the Hous...
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- Senator John Kerry said a bipartisan climate change bill would emerge soon in the U.S. Senate, contradicting what he called the "conventional wisdom" that the legislation was dead this election year.
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- A panel of eminent U.S. and European scientists has confirmed the widespread scientific consensus that the Earth's climate is warming due to human activities.
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- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a formal petition in federal court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gases endanger public ...
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 After almost a decade of federal study and analysis, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) approved the Cape Wind project, allowing the first U.S. offshore wind farm to move ahead.
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 The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that Seattle City Light, Seattle's publicly owned power utility, has been selected to lead a national effort to guide municipalities in evaluating light emitting diode (LED) street lights.
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 A record 10,010 megawatts of new wind capacity was installed in the United States last year, accounting for 39 percent of new electrical generation, the American Wind Energy Association said in its annual report. |
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 U.S. passenger vehicles will emit fewer greenhouse gasses and consume less fuel under new national standards finalized Thursday by the Obama Administration in an effort to address climate change and oil dependence. |
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 The Obama administration plans to dramatically expand U.S. offshore oil and gas drilling, potentially opening up large swaths of the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to a practice that has been largely banned for more than 20 years. |
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 A record-high 74 percent of Americans surveyed in a new national poll support nuclear energy and a similar majority of 70 percent says the United States should "definitely build more" nuclear energy facilities. |
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 American drinking water has become polluted with a cocktail of new chemicals over the last 50 years, including some that are known to cause cancer and others that are suspected of it. |
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