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• American President-elect Barack Obama vows to combat climate change. UN...
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Have you ever wondered why wind farms are built where they are? No? I didn't either. I just assumed, naively perhaps, that they looked for spots that were really windy. Apparently though, there are a lot of variables to consider. Wind patterns follow trends. Some trends last for days, or weeks, while others run into years and even decades. These trends overlap and...
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First it was deformed frogs. Then it was bees, dying of a mysterious illness called Colony Collapse Disorder. Now, reports from environmental scientists warn of the deaths of thousands of bats along the east coast of the United States, in a plague researchers are dubbing ‘white-nose fungus'.

Early in 2007, residents...
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Last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced plans to make more than 190 million acres of federal land available for geothermal energy development based on the findings in the Final Programmatic Environmental...
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The San Joaquin Valley, that great swath of land in California's interior, is often referred to as the ‘agricultural center of the world'. One of the most productive agricultural areas, it produces everything from fruit, vegetables, cotton, nuts, beans, dairy products, and wine. Go into the grocery store and you will see the labors of...
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It has not been a good couple of weeks for Detroit auto makers. Congress turned them away (to return to the private jets in which they arrived) until they can demonstrate how they will become viable companies, Ford CEO Alan Mulally had to face Congressional questioning of his $22...
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No sooner was the Great Lakes Basin Compact approved in October of 2008 than wind turbine consortiums and manufacturers started talking about the potential of Great Lakes wind to deliver massive amounts of clean energy to the Upper Midwest.

Their hopes and statistics are based on several...
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by Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel of the Constitutional Accountability Center

This week Sunflower Electric Power Company  took its ongoing battle with the State of Kansas to federal court, filing a lawsuit...
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