"Obama Admin Releases Initial 'Smart Grid' Standards"
"The Commerce Department unveiled the first 77 'smart grid' standards today aimed at removing a major barrier to the implementation of digital grid technologies."
Source: NYTimes, 09/25/2009
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"Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill Expected Next Wednesday"
"After weeks of waiting, it now looks like the Senate will see a climate bill next week after all. At an event in Pittsburgh ahead of the G20 summit, bill cosponsor John Kerry (D-Mass.) announced that the bill will be released next Wednesday."
Source: Mother Jones, 09/25/2009
"G20 Agrees To Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Draft"
"The Group of 20 will agree to phase out subsidies on oil and other fossil fuels in the 'medium term,' but will not set a firm timetable for the move aimed at combating global warming, a draft statement said."
Source: Reuters, 09/25/2009
"Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries"
"The oil industry has been on a hot streak this year, thanks to a series of major discoveries that have rekindled a sense of excitement across the petroleum sector, despite falling prices and a tough economy."
Source: NYTimes, 09/24/2009
Plug-in Maker Gets $529-Million Loan from Obama Administration
"In its latest bid to help finance the car of tomorrow, the Obama administration said it would lend more than $500 million to Irvine-based Fisker Automotive Inc. to develop a pair of plug-in hybrids."
Source: LA Times, 09/23/2009
"White House Rolls Out Auto Fuel Economy, Emissions Standard"
"The Obama administration ... released details of its national suite of auto standards that would mandate increased fuel economy and impose the first-ever greenhouse gas standard on the nation's cars and trucks."
Source: Greenwire, 09/23/2009
PG&E Leaves Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Issue
"Pacific Gas & Electric, the big California utility, has pulled out of the United States Chamber of Commerce over what its chairman, Peter Darbee, termed 'fundamental differences' over the climate change issue."
Source: NYTimes, 09/23/2009
"China and U.S. Try To Jumpstart U.N. Climate Talks"
"China laid out a plan to curb carbon emissions by 2020 and U.S. President Barack Obama called on all nations to act now to tackle global warming, as world leaders tried to inject momentum into climate change talks."
Source: Reuters, 09/23/2009
"Refitted to Bury Emissions, Plant Draws Attention"
"NEW HAVEN, W.Va. -- Poking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here are two wells that look much like those that draw natural gas to the surface. But these are about to do something new: inject a power plant's carbon dioxide into the earth."
Source: NYTimes, 09/22/2009
"California Solar Power Tower Withdrawn in Favor of Monument"
"Solar energy developer BrightSource Energy, Inc. has withdrawn plans for a 5,000 acre solar thermal facility to be located in the Broadwell Valley in California's Mojave Desert."
Source: ENS, 09/22/2009
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