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Days of Promise Fade for Ethanol
2013-03-17 01:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Five years ago, rural America was giddy for ethanol. Backed by government subsidies and mandates, hundreds of ethanol plants rose among the golden fields of the Corn Belt, bringing jobs and business to small towns, providing farmers with a new market for their crops and generating billions of dollars in revenue for the producers of this corn-based fuel blend. Those days of promise and prosperity are vanishing. Nearly 10 percent of the nations ethanol plants have stopped production over the past...
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U.S. coal continues its slow fade to black
2013-01-08 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: As Ive been writing about with some frequency, the U.S. coal industry is on the decline. The reasons are familiar by now: the low price of natural gas, new EPA regulations, the relentless grassroots anti-coal movement, the rising costs of production, flat or falling electricity demand, the recession, and, this past year, an unseasonably warm winter. The result is unfolding before us: U.S. coal production is down 9 percent from 2011, according to preliminary numbers from the EIA. And coal folks...
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Android Jelly Bean gains, Gingerbread seeing a slow fade
2013-01-04 04:31:12| CNET News.com
Android 4.1 and 4.2 now run on 10 percent of the Android devices out there while Gingerbread fades -- a bit. [Read more]