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"Aging Power Grid on Overload As U.S. Demands More Electricity"

"The United States doesn’t yet face the critical shortage of power that has left more than 600 million people in India without electricity this week. But the U.S. grid is aging and stretched to capacity. More often the victim of decrepitude than the forces of nature, it is beginning to falter. Experts fear failures that caused blackouts in New York, Boston and San Diego may become more common as the voracious demand for power continues to grow. They say it will take a multibillion-dollar investment to avoid them."

Source: Wash Post, 08/02/2012

Renewable Tax Break May Bring Romney Trouble in Windy Swing States

"Democrats, environmentalists and clean energy backers hope GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's solidified opposition to a key wind energy tax break helps motivate voters in closely contested, windy states to tip the election toward President Obama."

Source: E&E Daily, 08/02/2012

Lines Now Drawn on Wind Tax Credit: Romney Opposes It, Obama Favors It

"The lines are now drawn on a political hot button in Iowa: a lucrative tax break for wind energy. Mitt Romney is against it, President Barack Obama favors it — opposing stances that could have political and economic implications in Iowa, which has more wind energy jobs than any other state in the nation."

Source: Des Moines Register, 08/01/2012

"Wisconsin Oil Spill: Feds Block Enbridge From Re-Opening Pipeline"

"MADISON, Wis. -- Federal transportation officials have ordered a Houston-based energy transportation company not to re-open a pipeline after it ruptured and leaked oil into a Wisconsin field."

Source: AP, 08/01/2012

"Electricity Grids Fail Across Half of India"

"NEW DELHI -- India's energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity in one of the world's biggest-ever blackouts."

Source: AP, 07/31/2012

"Sierra Club Targets GOP Lawmakers for Opposing Wind Energy Tax Credit"

"An environmental group launched ads Monday targeting three GOP lawmakers for failing to push for an extension of a tax credit for wind energy producers, charging them with killing green energy jobs."

Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 07/31/2012

"First Nations Hold the Cards in Northern Gateway Battle with Enbridge"

"A single holdout could mean indefinite delay. The situation shows how difficult it will be to export Alberta oil sands to Asia."

Source: InsideClimate News, 07/31/2012

Farmers Urge Obama Admin To Suspend Ethanol Quota Amid Drought

"EPA's requirements for corn ethanol will drive food prices even higher after an already distressed harvest, growers warn."

Source: Guardian, 07/31/2012

"Is the Natural Gas Industry Buying Academics?"

"Last week the University of Texas provost announced he would re-examine a report by a UT professor that said fracking was safe for groundwater after the revelation that the professor pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Texas natural gas developer. It's the latest fusillade in the ongoing battle over the basic facts of fracking in America."

Source: Mother Jones, 07/30/2012

"Keystone Pipeline Advances"

"TransCanada, the company seeking to build the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline from oil sands formations in Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries, received the final go-ahead from the federal government on Friday for the southern leg of the project."

Source: Green/NYT, 07/30/2012

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