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"Tiny Spanish Island Nears Its Goal: 100 Percent Renewable Energy"

"It actually takes quite a lot of fossil fuel power to reach the tiny Spanish island of El Hierro. You have to catch a commercial jet flight, a propeller plane and then a ferry to reach what was once the end of the known world, before Columbus set sail."

Source: NPR, 09/30/2014

"A Rising Tide of Contaminants"

"Deborah Swackhamer, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota, decided last year to investigate the chemistry of the nearby Zumbro River. She and her colleagues were not surprised to find traces of pesticides in the water."

Source: NY Times, 09/29/2014

"Pennyslvania DEP Admits Drilling Probe Error"

"The state Department of Environmental Protection might have used incomplete and inaccurate test information to decide whether chemicals leaking from a Marcellus Shale wastewater impoundment and a drill cuttings pit contaminated a water well and springs in Washington County."

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 09/29/2014

"Solar Advocates Fight Utilities Over Grid Access"

"The solar power business is growing quickly in the U.S. More than 500,000 homeowners and businesses installed solar panels in just the first half of this year, according to a Solar Energy Industries Association report."

Source: NPR, 09/29/2014

"Six Energy Firms to Sign Pact to Cut Methane Emissions"

"NEW YORK -- Six international energy companies have agreed to work to reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in partnership with more than a dozen national governments through a new United Nations framework, according to executives and officials familiar with the program."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 09/23/2014

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