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Enviros File Suit To Block Tar Sands Pipeline

"Less than two weeks after the State Department gave the go-ahead for a major new pipeline to carry Alberta oil sands crude into the United States, a network of environmental and Native American groups filed a lawsuit to stop it."

Source: NYTimes, 09/04/2009

"Clean Split: Duke Energy Leaves Clean-Coal Group"

"Duke Energy’s departure from the star-crossed American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity seems to have less to do with the viability of clean coal than with the viability of the groups that promote it."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 09/03/2009

"Google-Backed Geothermal Company Suspends Test Project"

"Geothermal startup AltaRock Energy Inc on Wednesday said it has suspended its demonstration project in California due to geologic anomalies."

Source: Reuters, 09/03/2009

"BP Finds Giant Oil Field Deep in Gulf of Mexico"

"BP announced on Wednesday the discovery of what it characterized as a giant oil field several miles under the Gulf of Mexico, but it may take years to assess how much crude can actually be recovered."

Source: NYTimes, 09/03/2009

Speculators Now Dominate Oil Futures Market: Study

A new study using CFTC data shows that speculators have come to dominate the oil futures market since Congress eased commodity regulations in 2000.

Source: SPX, 09/03/2009

"More Delays at Finnish Nuclear Plant"

"Areva, a French nuclear construction company, said this week that its project to build the world's most powerful reactor remained mired in delays and was over-budget by 2.3 billion euros, or about $3.3 billion."

Source: NYTimes, 09/03/2009

"As Hybrid Cars Gobble Rare Metals, Shortage Looms"

"The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements .... That makes Toyota's market-leading gasoline-electric hybrid car and other similar vehicles vulnerable to a supply crunch predicted by experts as China, the world's dominant rare earths producer, limits exports while global demand swells."

Source: Reuters, 09/02/2009

"Europe’s Ban on Old-Style Bulbs Begins"

"Restrictions on the sale of incandescent bulbs begin going into effect across most of Europe on Tuesday in the continent’s latest effort to get people to save energy and combat global warming."

Source: NYTimes, 09/01/2009

"Climate Change Bill Encounters New Senate Delay"

"U.S. Senate Democrats announced on Monday a new delay on climate change legislation, which could make it more difficult for President Barack Obama to win progress on that front before a global environmental summit in December."

Source: Reuters, 09/01/2009

"Nuclear Sites Fear They're the Alternative To Yucca Mountain"

With the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository now dead, "local leaders and lawmakers from the sites where the waste is now stored, however, are increasingly concerned that the Energy Department will leave it in place, even though that might violate legally binding cleanup agreements."

Source: McClatchy, 08/31/2009

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