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"100 World Lawmakers Agree to Take Climate Action Now"

"COPENHAGEN -- Legislators from 16 of the world's major economies and most major political parties have agreed on key guiding principles to enact climate change legislation in their home countries that will drive the move to a global low carbon economy. Meeting this weekend, the lawmakers agreed to act right now in their own legislative bodies, even before the key UN climate deal in Copenhagen, now just six weeks away."

Source: ENS, 10/27/2009

"Obama Plans Big Smart Grid Announcement"

"President Barack Obama will announce the largest investment of economic stimulus funds in clean energy during a visit to Florida, an Obama administration official said on Monday."

Source: Reuters, 10/27/2009

This AM: "Senate Panel Kicks off Climate Bill Drive"

"A Senate committee on Tuesday launches three long days of hearings on a Democratic climate bill in a bid to further convince an international summit in December that Washington is serious about tackling global warming."

Source: Reuters, 10/27/2009

"Energy Dept. Aid for Scientists on the Edge"

"The federal Energy Department will make good on a pledge for a bolder technology strategy on Monday, awarding research grants for ideas like bacteria that will make gasoline, enzymes that will capture carbon dioxide to counter global warming and batteries so cheap that they will allow the use of solar power all night long."

Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2009

"Pennsylvania Tapped, Drillers Not"

Gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation of Pennsylvania is bringing an economic boom there -- even as oil and gas drilling has fallen dramatically nationwide. But the gas is tax-exempt in Pennsylvania.

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/26/2009

"Obama Presses Case for Renewable Energy"

"Taking aim at business interests that have lobbied against an energy and climate bill moving through Congress, President Obama urged lawmakers on Friday to rally around the push toward using more renewable energy."

Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2009

"House Votes To Pass Solar Roadmap Bill by 3-1 Margin."

The House Thursday passed the Solar Technology Roadmap Act, which authorizes more than $2 billion to strengthen and coordinate research and development of solar power projects. Projects would be picked by an 11-member panel chosen by the Energy Secretary.

Source: Phoenix Sun, 10/23/2009

"'Crude,' the Film, Explores Oil Giants' Crude Conduct in Ecuador"

"The acclaimed documentary film 'Crude,' which details the 16-year struggle of indigenous peoples in Ecuador's Amazon to hold Chevron legally accountable for contamination of a huge rainforest area, opens in Washington, DC on Friday during intense scrutiny of a $27 billion liability lawsuit against the oil giant."

Source: ENS, 10/23/2009

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