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Sunday 19 April 2009
China's Banks Ease Foreign Energy Deals Wall Street Journal By RICK CAREW HONG KONG -- China is making a push to lock up energy reserves across the globe by offering much-needed credit to governments. Kazakhstan announced a $10 billion oil-for-loan deal with China Friday during its president's state visit to ... China inks oil deal with Kazakhstan |
Pa. researchers seek cold weather biodiesel crop Philadelphia Inquirer, PA Holden said he was excited by the potential of jatropha, and he was also happy to hear that switchgrass, another biofuel source, can be grown in abandoned strip mines. He suggested a federal mandate similar to the one Pennsylvania adopted last year to ... |
 PRESS TV | Energy Secretary Offers Dire Global Warming Prediction FOXNews ... in sea level and intensifying hurricanes, and Florida, Louisiana and even northern California could be overrun with rising water levels due to global warming triggered by carbon-based greenhouse gases, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Saturday. ... Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to Speak At Caltech Commencement US: Climate change washes islands off map Obama energy official warns island countries could disappear if ... |
Congress to pass energy bill this year: White House Reuters By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US lawmakers will pass major energy legislation, possibly including measures to address climate change, by the end of this year, a top White House official said on Sunday. "I do know this, at the end of this ... |
 The Southern Ledger | Solar Projects Face Challenge of Water Shortages RedOrbit, TX Water has been traditionally used as the most cost-efficient means for cooling large-scale solar energy plants. As many energy companies have responded to Washington's call to up the scale of the countries renewable energy sources, they find themselves ... Desert clash in West over solar potential, water |
 KVAL | States hope new business tax breaks revive economy The Associated Press _ Missouri: Tax credits for investors in new technology-based companies and for research in biotechnology, medicine and alternative energy. _ New Jersey: $3000 for each new employee companies hire. _ Nevada: Tax breaks for solar energy companies. ... Scrutiny grows on company tax breaks to gain jobs Scrutiny grows on company tax breaks to gain jobs |
 The Southern Ledger | "Clean Energy" is a Dirty Lie American Daily Review, Texas This is how Congress can restrict access to national energy sources???oil, natural gas, and coal???while claiming it wants the USA to be ???energy independent.??? The definition above comes from George Orwell's ???1984??? and describes ???double think??? in his ... Rick Holmes: Action on global warming - at last Lawmakers start work on far-reaching global warming bill |
Africa Will Have to Feed EU's Artificial Biofuels Demand Inter Press Service, Italy PARIS, Apr 19 (IPS) - Earlier in the decade, biofuels were hailed as the energy panacea, the silver bullet to solve oil shortages and abide by environmental concerns. The European Union recently took the lead in imposing the use of these liquid or ... |
State fines BG printer for pollution overflow The Columbian, WA BY ERIK ROBINSON The state Department of Ecology has filed a notice of penalty for $18000 against a Battle Ground printing company alleged to have discharged silver-bearing photochemicals, ink and solvent wastes into the sewer system. ... |
NovaCharge Partners With Native American Biofuels International Emediawire (press release), WA Tampa, FL (PRWEB) April 19, 2009 -- NovaCharge, a leader in the deployment of EV Charging infrastructure, today announced a reseller agreement with Native American Biofuels International (NABFI), a leading provider of environmentally friendly electric ... |
 Dallas Morning News | High-energy Fall Out Boy show offers glimpse of bigger things Dallas Morning News, TX By PRESTON JONES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News GRAND PRAIRIE ??? Fall Out Boy is like sonic Red Bull: kind of tasty, wildly popular in certain quarters of society and packed with energy. Fall Out Boy lead singer Patrick Stump sported a ... |
PRESS TV | US: Climate change washes islands off map PRESS TV, Iran US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has warned that climate change and rising level of oceans can wash some countries off the map. The American energy secretary is traveling with President Barack Obama to the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago for the ... Energy secretary: Islands could disappear |
Tear down the wall between us and nature Arizona Daily Star, AZ Rosenzweig, who founded the University of Arizona's department of ecology and evolutionary biology in 1975 and is director of the UA's Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, is a voice crying for some aspect of wildness in our more civilized settings. ... |
Tugboat Sinks, Spills Fuel On Lake Washington KIROtv.com, WA Bothell, Washington -- A Washington Department of Ecology spills response crew is overseeing the work of a contractor refloating a tugboat with 2000 gallons of diesel fuel on board that sank on the northeast end of Lake Washington. ... |
 Aiken Standard (subscription) | Learning to love the Earth Augusta Chronicle, GA At left, Cameron Strasser (left), 5, and sister Marcella, 6, check out a turtle at the Savannah River Ecology Lab exhibit. Saturday's festivities included a demonstration by the Aiken County HazMat Team, a performance by Fort Gordon's Signal Corps Band ... Hundreds around county observe Earth Day |
 BBC News | Summit of Americas' final declaration still at stake Xinhua, China On Saturday, Morales added in a press conference another criticism to the draft's text: "If the issue of biofuel is not reviewed, the government of Bolivia will not sign this document. Introducing biofuel policies means to privilege the machines over ... Video: Obama Sees Positive Signs From Venezuela, Cuba Americas summit concludes in 'new spirit of cooperation' |
Earth Week activities, fair offer lessons on ecology Quad City Times, IA It's because, said Dave Murcia, director of the Wapsi River Environmental Education Center, of its categorization on the continuum from common to extinct. The well-known slitherer is considered of special concern in Iowa because numbers are declining. ... |