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"Economy Sandbags Plans for Nuclear Reactors"

Plans for one of the first new nuclear power reactors in decades -- a third unit at Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, were put on hold by Constellation Energy. The Energy Department said the project is so risky that Constellation must pay high fees if it wants the U.S. taxpayers to guarantee construction loans. But those subsidies were not high enough for Constellation. The demise of its poster child raised questions about the so-called "nuclear renaissance."

Source: NYTimes, 10/11/2010

"Department of Energy Agrees To Hanford Cleanup Deadline"

"The Department of Energy and Washington State Department of Ecology have reached agreement on a consent decree that sets new court-enforced deadlines for emptying Hanford tanks of radioactive waste and treating the waste."

Source: Tri-City Herald, 10/08/2010

"Californians See Green in Climate Law: Poll"

"California voters are remaining true to one stereotype -- their commitment to the environment. A measure to suspend the state's vanguard climate change law is heading for failure, by a margin of 49 percent to 37 percent, because voters see the law doing more economic good than harm, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday showed."

Source: Reuters, 10/08/2010

"Cape Wind, Government Sign Nation's First Offshore Wind Farm Lease"

"U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Cape Wind President Jim Gordon signed the first lease for an offshore wind farm in the federal waters of the United States this morning at the American Wind Energy Association's Offshore Wind Conference in Atlantic City."

Source: ENS, 10/07/2010

"Solar Panels Returning To White House Roof"

"The solar panels are coming back! A month after environmentalist Bill McKibben brought one of the original Carter-era solar panels to Washington, the White House said it is putting new panels on the White House residence."

Source: Wash Post, 10/06/2010

"Power Plant's Smoke a Bad Habit"

"For more than six years, a power plant that towers over Chicago's Southeast Side repeatedly has belched out smoke so thick it violates air pollution laws and aggravates respiratory illnesses for residents nearby."

Source: Southtown Star, 10/06/2010

"The U.S. Smart Grid Is Shaping Up to Be Dangerously Insecure"

"Achieving greater efficiency and control requires hooking almost every aspect of the electricity grid up to the Internet, making it more vulnerable to cyber attacks."

Source: Scientfic American, 10/06/2010

"Oil Industry Has Yet To Adopt Lessons of BP Spill"

"Oil industry and government officials could get caught flat-footed again by another deep-water blowout in the coming months because they have yet to incorporate many of the lessons learned during the BP disaster, experts inside and outside the business tell The Associated Press."

Source: AP, 10/05/2010

"U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels"

"With insurgents increasingly attacking the American fuel supply convoys that lumber across the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, the military is pushing aggressively to develop, test and deploy renewable energy to decrease its need to transport fossil fuels."

Source: NYTimes, 10/05/2010

"Plan to Expand Rail Service Imperiled at State Level"

"Republicans running for governor in a handful of states could block, or significantly delay, one of President Obama’s signature initiatives: his plan to expand the passenger rail system and to develop the nation’s first bullet-train service."

Source: NYTimes, 10/05/2010

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