"Incinerator Plan Needs Help From Lawmakers"
"S.C. legislators are being asked to loosen state rules so a New Jersey company can build a $450 million garbage incinerator in jobs-hungry Chester County."
Source: The State, 02/16/2010
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"Rowdy Russia May Finally Clean up Its Dirty Front Yard"
Growing pollution in the Baltic Sea has been making it unswimmable and contaminating fish. Now Russia has sealed a deal to put a pipeline beneath the Baltic -- with big international repercussions.
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 02/16/2010
"Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car"
"SAN FRANCISCO -- If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations."
Source: NYTimes, 02/16/2010
"UK, Ethiopia To Head Climate Funding Effort"
"Britain and Ethiopia will head a new United Nations panel that aims to secure $100 billion every year by 2020 to help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 02/15/2010
"U.S. To Offer 37 Million Offshore Acres For Oil Drilling"
"The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday issued the final terms for leasing almost 37 million acres in the central Gulf of Mexico to energy companies so they can drill for oil and natural gas."
Source: Reuters, 02/15/2010
"Sen. Murkowski, Greenpeace Exchange Barbs Over EPA Regulations"
"Greenpeace and Sen. Lisa Murkowski's office are in a battle of words over her effort to block U.S. EPA from regulating greenhouse gases."
Source: Greenwire, 02/15/2010
"Known Lithium Deposits Can Cover Electric Car Boom"
"Hopes of an electric car boom are spurring companies to seek new lithium sources, but new finds may be lower quality and costlier to develop than established deposits able to meet demand for years to come."
Source: Reuters, 02/12/2010
"British Columbia Bans Mining, Drilling in Flathead River Valley"
"Mining and drilling for oil, gas and coal will be banned in the Canadian portion of the Flathead River Basin, under a new partnership with the state of Montana announced Tuesday in British Columbia's Speech from the Throne, an annual address that identifies the Province's legislative priorities for the coming year."
Source: ENS, 02/12/2010
"Arizona Quits Western Cap-and-Trade Program"
"Citing financial worries, the State of Arizona has backed out of a broad regional effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the West through a cap-and-trade system."
Source: NYTimes, 02/12/2010
Energy Firms Mount Lobby Push for Cap and Trade
"The U.S. Senate's stalled climate bill is getting a last big push from an unlikely ally -- a group of energy companies who say a carbon market will help them get financing for the next generation of energy production."
Source: Reuters, 02/12/2010
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