"Groups Seek Delay In Westinghouse Reactor Approval"
"Environmental groups, on Thursday, again asked the U.S. nuclear regulator to delay approval of Westinghouse Electric's AP1000 reactor design."
Source: Reuters, 06/17/2011
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"Congress Panel Approves Bill To Fast-Track Keystone XL Pipeline"
"[A House subcommittee] took a first step on Wednesday to fast-track a controversial Alberta tar sands pipeline, ordering Barack Obama to reach a decision on the project by 1 November."
Source: Guardian, 06/16/2011
"Did 'No. 1' Climate Change Denier Fake His Résumé?"
"Sometimes it seems hard to believe how much skepticism still exists about climate change, with the scientific community in near-unanimous agreement that yes, it's happening and yes, it's our fault. But as Minnesota State Senator Michael Jungbauer reminded us yesterday, most of that dissent comes from people who are more or less clueless about the science."
Source: Mother Jones, 06/16/2011
"Climate Change Link to Fires Ignites Senate Committee"
"Climate change crept into the discussion of fire management at a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing yesterday, despite Republicans' tiptoeing around the issue."
Source: ClimateWire, 06/16/2011
"Senate Rejects Effort to Cut Ethanol Subsidy"
"A Senate effort to take away ethanol subsidies came up short Tuesday but exposed weakened support for a $6 billion tax break, suggesting that the incentive could be eliminated."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 06/15/2011
"U.S. Is Falling Behind in the Business of 'Green'"
"With Congress deeply divided over whether climate change is real or if the country should use less fossil fuel, efforts in the United States have paled in comparison [to enterprises in countries ranging from the U.K. to China aimed at reducing carbon emissions]. That slow start is ceding job growth and profits to companies overseas that now profitably export their goods and expertise to the United States."
Source: NY Times, 06/14/2011
Obama Launches Campaign to Help States, Utilities Deploy Smart Grid
"Obama administration officials, joined by electric power industry executives and state regulators, will unveil a new campaign [Monday] to push deployment of smart grid and clean energy technologies."
Source: ClimateWire, 06/14/2011
"E.P.A. Delays Rule on Power Plant Emissions"
"The Environmental Protection Agency, facing intense opposition from Congressional Republicans and industry over a broad range of new air quality regulations, said Monday that it was delaying by two months the release of a proposed rule on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major pollution sources."
Source: Green (NYT), 06/14/2011
"Italians Vote to Abandon Nuclear Energy"
"Italians voted to abandon nuclear power for the foreseeable future, turning out in droves to cast ballots in a packet of referenda whose outcome is a sign of growing popular discontent toward Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 06/14/2011
"Obama Pushes for More Cleantech, Green Jobs and Training"
"Facing heavy criticism for a sluggish economic recovery, U.S. President Barack Obama brought his talk about the importance of growing more green jobs to a thriving LED factory in North Carolina Monday."
Source: GreenBiz.com, 06/14/2011
