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"Where's the Next Boom? Maybe in `Cleantech'"

"Silicon Valley investors are pointing to something called cleantech -- alternative energy, more efficient power distribution and new ways to store electricity, all with minimal impact to the environment -- as a candidate for the next boom."

Source: AP, 10/07/2009

"Arab Gulf Officials Deny Plan To Ditch USD Oil Trade"

"Arab officials in the Persian Gulf strongly denied Tuesday a report that they're in secret talks to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies to price oil."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 10/06/2009

"Interior Bid for Supreme Court Hearing on $19B Royalties Case Fails"

"The Supreme Court won't review an appellate decision blocking the Interior Department from ending royalty waivers at times of high oil and gas prices for deepwater energy producers in the Gulf of Mexico."

Source: Greenwire, 10/06/2009

"U.S. National Parks Vulnerable as Planet Heats Up"

"'Climate disruption is the greatest threat ever to America's national parks,' warns Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and principal author of a new report released Thursday that identifies the 25 U.S. national parks, lakeshores, seashores and monuments most at risk of global warming."

Source: ENS, 10/05/2009

"Obama Aide Concedes Climate Law Must Wait"

"President Obama’s top climate and energy official said Friday that there was virtually no chance Congress would have a climate and energy bill ready for him to sign before negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in December in Copenhagen."

Source: NYTimes, 10/05/2009

"Spills, Looming Regulations Spur Natural Gas Industry Toward Disclosure"

"The natural gas industry is moving to disclose information about chemicals used in controversial extraction technologies in the wake of spills at drilling sites in Pennsylvania and as New York is proposing new regulations."

Source: NYTimes, 10/02/2009

General Electric Disavows Chamber of Commerce on Climate

General Electric is the latest company to complain about the policies of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in opposition to climate change legislation. “The Chamber does not speak for us on climate legislation, but we are still a member,” said GE spokesman Peter O'Toole.

Source: Mother Nature Network, 10/02/2009

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"Where's the Next Boom? Maybe in `Cleantech'"

"Arab Gulf Officials Deny Plan To Ditch USD Oil Trade"

"Interior Bid for Supreme Court Hearing on $19B Royalties Case Fails"

"U.S. National Parks Vulnerable as Planet Heats Up"

"Obama Aide Concedes Climate Law Must Wait"

"Spills, Looming Regulations Spur Natural Gas Industry Toward Disclosure"

General Electric Disavows Chamber of Commerce on Climate

"PV Module Production Doubles in 2008"

"Boxer, Kerry Launch Campaign to Pass Senate Cap-And-Trade Bill"

"New Brunswick Power to Close Coal-Fired Plant and Strip Mine"

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