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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Hits Four Million Year High
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average of 419 parts per million (ppm), the highest level since accurate measurements began 63 years ago, ...
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Denmark to Invest Millions in Wind, Wave, Hydro, Solar Power
A Danish aid plan to support electricity production from renewable sources has won the approval of the European Commission. Denmark will invest €400 million (nearly US$481 million) to support renewables such as onshore and offshore wind ...
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Biden Invites 40 World Leaders to Climate Summit
President Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders to participate in a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate he will host on Earth Day April 22 and on the following day April 23, fulfilling a promise he made during his first week in office. The virtual ...
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Russian Tanker First to Sail Arctic Sea Route in Winter
The Arctic’s icy Northern Sea Route is melting, allowing the Russian icebreaking LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie to complete her experimental round trip voyage across the Arctic in winter. For the first time in history, due to climate ...
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‘Don’t Nuke the Climate,’ Groups Warn Paris Negotiators
June 17, 2015 (ENS) – Clean energy groups from around the world Tuesday launched an anti-nuclear petition to world leaders in support of a “nuclear-free, carbon-free path” at the United Nations climate summit in Paris in December. ...
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Product carbon labeling takes shape in South Korea
The South Korean government has decided that selected products will carry labels in the marketplace to show the size of their carbon footprints. During the testing phase, just 10 products will get carbon labels, but if the program is successful, it ...
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UC-San Diego will generate 10% of its own power
The University of California-San Diego calls itself `one of the nation`s greenest college campuses,` and to enhance that status, the university has begun to install the components of a multi-faceted sustainable energy program. The university will ...
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Pennsylvania`s new US$650m clean energy fund
A new US$650 million fund that will save families and small businesses money on their energy bills by supporting investments in energy conservation and efficiency was signed into law last Wednesday by Governor Edward Rendell. Households and small ...
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Georgia judge pulls coal power permit on climate concerns
A Fulton County Superior Court judge has issued a decision that blocks construction of the first coal-burning power plant proposed in Georgia in more than 20 years. The judge ruled that the new plant must limit its emissions of the heat-trapping gas ...
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First US sale of offshore wind power signed
The first offshore wind farm to be developed in the United States has already sold one-third of the power that will be generated during its first 25 years of operation before a turbine is even placed in the water. Delmarva Power agreed Monday to ...
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Law allows New Yorkers to sell more green power to utilities
New York Governor David Paterson has announced an agreement with the Legislature on energy legislation that will authorize increased development of renewable energy with a process called net metering. Net metering allows electricity customers with ...
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Two die in European truck drivers` fuel price protest
Two truck drivers were killed in fuel price protest actions in Spain and Portugal last week as governments across Europe struggle to contain strikes by thousands of truckers, fishermen and railway workers over soaring fuel prices. In Portugal, a ...
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Biggest US biodiesel plant opens in Houston
A former waste oil and chemical refinery has been transformed over the past year into a zero emissions biodiesel production plant in Houston. When GreenHunter Energy opened the $70 million biodiesel refinery and glycerin distillery Monday, Texas ...
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Obama wins; Clinton stands firm - both pledge a greener America
The Democratic primary season officially ended Tuesday night as Senator Barack Obama declared victory before a jubilant crowd of some 17,000 at a rally at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul. `This is America, this is our moment. This is our ...
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Progress Energy wins US$82m in spent nuclear fuel ruling
The US Court of Federal Claims has ruled that Progress Energy should be paid US$82.8 million for costs incurred as a result of the federal government`s failure to accept spent nuclear fuel from the utility. The award covers the costs incurred by ...
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Queen Elizabeth buys world`s largest offshore wind turbine
Britain`s Queen Elizabeth is investing in the world`s largest offshore wind turbine and also in the development of offshore windfarms in Scottish waters, her property company The Crown Estate announced on Wednesday. On April 17, The Crown Estate ...
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UN rapporteur says biofuel production `criminal path` to global food crisis
The United States and the European Union have taken a `criminal path` by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said this week. ...
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US government grants Los Angeles US$213m to cut traffic congestion
A plan to cut highway traffic jams and provide better bus transit services is eligible for more than $213 million in federal congestion reduction grants, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters said during a visit to this car-dependent city ...
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Kyoto City launches green power certification system
The city of Kyoto, famous as the place where the world`s first climate change treaty requiring greenhouse gas reductions was agreed, has developed a way to reduce its own greenhouse gases. The Miyako Agenda21 Forum, an environmental partnership ...
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Renewable energy industry hot in latest global status report
The renewable energy industry is rising from obscurity into the mainstream of the energy sector, the latest global assessment reveals, although public perception of the industry has not kept pace with the reality. The renewable energy sector ...