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The George Bush Intercontinental Airport will reduce emissions by 60 percent by replacing its gas-powered steam energy system with new solar panels, heaters and chillers.<br />
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Eight big-name airlines such as Southwest, United and American will begin fueling ground service equipment at the Los Angeles International Airport with synthetic biodiesel in 2012.
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The U.S Navy has enlisted Johnson Controls Inc. in a $34.1 million energy efficiency and conservation project at the naval base in Guam.
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The U.K.'s Low Carbon Transition Plan released Wednesday secures wide-ranging praise as the government outlines how it plans to deliver deep emission cuts of 34 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
by James Murray
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While the industrialized world is struggling to cut its emissions, and is gearing up to negotiate a new international climate treaty in Copenhagen this December, it is simultaneously bankrolling the construction of thousands upon thousands of megawatts of new coal-fired power in developing countries.
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Farm state politicians, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have sold biofuels to rest of us as a way to revive rural America, attack the problem of global warming and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. In response, investors and taxpayers have poured many millions of dollars into corn ethanol. But returns have been skimpy, says a new report.
by Marc Gunther
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A new Climate Group report predicts that scaling up energy efficiency, renewable energy and deforestation prevention can deliver 70 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed by 2020.
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In the search for a clean, planet-friendly fuel, the startup Qteros has discovered and refined a microbe it calls the Q Microbe that turns biomass -- switchgrass, wood chips, grass, corn stover or even municipal liquid waste -- into ethanol.
by Marc Gunther
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Sunil Paul thinks big. He also is well-connected in D.C. and has an exquisite sense of timing. He released his report Gigaton Throwdown in the company of green jobs czar Van Jones and key players from Energy Secretary Steve Chu’s brain trust on the eve of the House vote on the climate bill.
by Marc Gunther
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What would it take to aggressively scale up clean energy to have a major impact on jobs, energy independence and climate change over the next 10 years? The Gigaton Throwdown report asks just that -- and offers answer to the question.
by Joel Makower
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Two new reports on the impacts of moving to a low-carbon economy show putting money toward energy efficiency, building retrofits and renewable energy projects can create 1.7 million new jobs, significantly more than the same investment in fossil fuel industries.
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Although the U.S. Congress's new climate change bill may yet result in the kind of emissions cuts we need to stem the tide of severe global warming, its lack of market-based policies could hinder what would otherwise be much-needed progress and innovation.
by Marc Gunther
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New partnerships with utilities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and Norway have boosted Dell's worldwide renewable energy power sourcing to 26 percent, the company said.
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The networking giant yesterday outlined a new IT solution to make the country's electrical infrastructure more energy efficient and responsive while creating thousands of new jobs.
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Three more companies have joined the BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy) coalition of companies advocating for stronger climate and energy legislation in the United States.
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The world's biggest oil companies are not only not investing heavily in alternative energy sources yet, but some are actively scaling back their green programs, according to a new report in the New York Times.
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Coskata, a much-touted biofuels company, is stalled. So too is Compact Power, a U.S. maker of lithium-ion batteries. Why? Partly because of the global economic meltdown. Partly because both depend on General Motors.
by Marc Gunther
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The global economy may be in the tank but that isn't stopping countries around the world from proposing billions in stimulus dollars aimed at green and climate change-related initiatives, according to Deutsche Bank.
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The six-year deal gets Npower on board with a plan to provide the retailer with 2.6 terawatt-hours of renewable energy, and provides incentives to English farmers to install renewable energy projects.
by James Murray
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San Francisco is embarking on a pilot project to turn brown waste grease, known as FOG, into biofuel with help from $1.2 million in state and federal grants that will fund a public-private partnership with Philadelphia company BlackGold Biofuels and engineering firm URS Corp.
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After years of rhetoric about smart grids, cleantech and green collar jobs that yielded little change, President Obama's stimulus bill has a New Deal-like set of incentives to build our green infrastructure. The bill provides tangible investments that when implemented will have ripple effects through the economy.
by Tim Mohin
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The European Commission last week announced proposals for a huge investment in energy infrastructure over the next two years, including ring-fencing €1.25bn (US$1.63 billion) for investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) and €500m (US$650.7 million) for offshore wind development.
by Tom Young
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As the World Future Energy Summit comes to a close, Marc Gunther writes of Abu Dhabi's green vision -- and how the emirate, whose vast wealth is based on oil, is focused a path toward a sustainable future.
by Marc Gunther
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Sainsbury's, Britain's third-largest supermarket chain, kicks off a major biofuel initiative in Scotland and vows to stop sending all its U.K. food waste to landfill by summer.
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In a move meant to further its efforts toward environmental sustainability, Ferrari unveiled a photovoltaic system earlier this week on the roof of its Engine Mechanical Machining Facility in Maranello, Italy.