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President Obama is preparing to pitch a big increase in government loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors. Is it enough to win over votes for a climate bill?

Deforestation made the country poor, and the destitution exasperates environmental degradation.

U.S. billionaire Ted Turner is taking a shine to solar power — again — and is teaming up with Atlanta-based utility Southern Company to develop renewable energy projects in the United States.

A national cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gasses might be in limbo, but that hasn’t stopped President Obama from announcing on Friday an emissions reduction target for federal operations. The president, fulfilling an executive order signed in October, said the federal government will reduce its emissions by 28 percent by 2020 over a 2008 baseline year. […]

Algae-powered vehicles within five yearsWestern Farm PressHuge amounts of algae are needed for large-scale biofuel production. Mass production takes two forms: growing it in open ponds or more complex and costly …

Some thoughts on recent Algae Biofuels Lifecycle AnalysisGREENandSAVE (blog)The study (unfortunately behind a pay wall, so I'm not posting graphs or tables) determined that algae biofuels production was more energy and water …

We had a blast at our smart grid bunker event this week, and we wanted to share the videos with any folks that weren’t able to tune into the live stream. Thank you to all of our thought-leader speakers — Andy Tang, PG&E Senior Director of the Smart Energy Web, Warren Weiss, Partner Foundation Capital, […]

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leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And that nation needs to be America.” “We are very pleased that Carol Browner will open the RETECH 2010 conference. Following the President’s State of the Union …

FREEHOLD, N.J., Jan. 29 — /PRNewswire/ — Trinity Solar, the largest solar integrator in New Jersey with over 950 solar electric systems installed to date, is proud to offer New Jersey’s homeowners new financing solutions to pay for their solar …

Trinity’s partnership with SunRun now allows homeowners to install solar for as little as $300 . SunRun’s financing programs substantially reduce a homeowner’s annual electric bill, now and in the future, and provide peace of mind through complete …

msnbc.comE. Coli now proves eco and economic friendly as the new source of biofuel …Boosh News (press release) (blog)So, with E.coli hitting the screen the biofuel production economics, efficiency and ease is sure going to set new records.Researchers…

Bacteria Engineered to Produce BiofuelDaily Californian"The fuels that we've been producing have better properties than biofuels people have produced in the past." Biofuel production with E. coli may be more …Biofuel advance made in Bay…

msnbc.comBiofuel advance made in Bay Area, researchers saySan Jose Mercury NewsThey succeeded in taking off the bacteria's internal controls over fatty acid, or biodiesel, production. The challenge now is going from laboratory flask to …Researche…

Arizona Public Service said Wednesday it is seeking proposals for two new renewable energy projects in Arizona, one for a new source of photovoltaic solar energy and the other for wind power. The request for proposals seeks projects of between 15 and …

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Suntech … Arizona under the new Renewable Energy Tax Incentive program, which provides refundable tax credits and property tax reductions for manufacturers. Suntech’s chief strategy officer, Steven Chan, says a factory in …