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The revised climate bill was revealed to Congress this morning, just one day after Senate hearing that grilled the CEOs of companies tied to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Now called the "American Power Act", the climate bill has retained provisions for expanded offshore drilling, but included opt...
HYANNIS, Massachusetts, May 4, 2010 (ENS) - A stack of lawsuits is piling up against the federal government in response to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's April 28 decision to approve the Cape Wind project, America's first offshore wind farm.
After nearly 10 years of permitting battles, Cape Wind...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now about nine miles off the coast of Louisiana. Despite the fact that the slick has taken longer than expected to reach shore, it has tripled in size over the weekend, now covering hundreds of square miles of ocean. President Obama flew to New Orleans and traveled...
BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 28, 2010 (ENS) - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved Cape Wind, America's first offshore wind farm on 25-square-miles of federal submerged lands in Nantucket Sound off the Massachusetts coast. But the developer of the $1 billion wind farm must redu...
FORT MADISON, Iowa, April 28, 2010 (ENS) - President Barack Obama got a closeup look at the positive effect his economic stimulus funding package has had on the emerging U.S. wind energy industry in the wind-rich heartland on Tuesday.
Siemens Energy hosted the President at its newly expanded wind tu...
BRASILIA, Brazil, April 21, 2010 (ENS) - The bidding Tuesday for electricity generated by Brazil's planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest was marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into...
The Environmental Defense Fund dropped its opposition to a $3.5 billion coal plant in exchange for a commitment that the plant's operator will limit carbon dioxide emissions and water usage. The Trailblazer Energy Center, located in West Texas, is large enough to power hundreds of homes and is expec...
DENVER, Colorado, April 20, 2010 (ENS) - Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Monday signed into law the Colorado Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act, legislation that requires the utility Xcel to cut nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 80 percent from several Front Range coal plants by the end of 2017, most likely soo...
WASHINGTON, DC, April 15, 2010 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy today jointly announced changes to the Energy Star® product certification process to ensure that only products actually meeting the Energy Star requirements can receive an Energy Star label....
DURHAM, North Carolina, April 13, 2010 (ENS) - Energy-efficiency measures in the southern United States could save consumers $41 billion on their energy bills, open 380,000 new jobs, and save 8.6 billion gallons of water over the next 10 years, finds research from Duke University and the Georgia Ins...
