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A Rare Bipartisan Clean Energy Bill Is Ready for Passage
2013-05-13 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Congressional lawmakers from both parties are taking a step to catalyze the nation's clean energy economy: After 32 years of restricting a crucial investment tool to expanding fossil fuels, they're pushing to open it to renewables. Legislation is moving through both houses to tweak the tax code to let clean energy developers form a master limited partnership, or MLP, a type of publicly traded company structure not subject to corporate taxes. For three decades, coal, oil and gas companies have used...
BIO Urges Congress to Include Renewable Chemicals in Farm Bill Energy Title Programs
2013-05-03 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
BIO wrote leaders of House and Senate Agricultural Committees to urge reauthorization and mandatory funding of Farm Bill Energy Title programs and eligibility for renewable chemicals. Praising previous bipartisan support, BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood said supporting these programs "will drive the development of a 21st Century bio-based economy, create high-quality rural jobs, spur economic growth, revive America’s manufacturing sector, and improve environmental health." This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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United Kingdom: Energy Bill 'should be amended to protect community energy schemes'
2013-05-01 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Community owned renewable energy has received remarkable levels of vocal support from ministers and shadow ministers alike as the Energy Bill has progressed through parliament. However, it currently contains no supportive policy measures and, as it stands, represents a huge threat to this vibrant and rapidly growing sector. Currently, the Energy Bill threatens to prevent larger community schemes over 5MW, such as the Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative in Oxfordshire and the Lochcarnan Community Wind...
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NEMA Praises Introduction of Bill to Promote Energy Storage Technologies
2013-04-11 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
NEMA endorsed HR 1465, STORAGE 2013, which promotes adoption of state-of-the-art energy storage technologies, calling this legislation "carefully crafted" in its regard for entire range of energy storage technologies. "Energy storage is a key enabler of the Smart Grid and is transforming the way we think about electricity," said NEMA President and CEO Evan R. Gaddis, who also noted that this bill provides opportunity to make U.S. the "center of energy storage development and production." This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Vermont green energy bill advances but is scaled down
2013-03-27 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Foes of mountaintop wind power in Vermont were dealt a setback Tuesday when a bill calling for more study of large-scale renewable energy development was significantly reduced in scope. Though the bill won preliminary approval in the Senate, it was only after provision calling for a slowdown of such development was scaled back, then removed completely. People on both sides of the debate said the legislation pitted one environmental good against another: protecting Vermonts pristine landscapes...
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