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Bankrolling Energy Exports Creates Rift Between Fossil Fuels And Green Power
2014-08-03 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: With boundaries generally falling, U.S. firms are trying to sell their wares around the globe. But just how that expansion is financed is up for question -- with a movement now afoot that seeks to extract the U.S. government from the equation. At issue is whether the Export-Import Bank, developed in 1934, should supplant private lending sources and make loans to exporters. As such, funding to keep the bank afloat is set to cease on September 30, 2014. Congress could act to keep the bank alive...
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Australia launches 'Green Army' for environment
2014-08-02 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia on Saturday launched its 'Green Army' which plans to recruit up to 15,000 young people for projects to conserve and rehabilitate the environment -- the biggest land care mobilisation in the nation's history. Under the scheme, teams of young people will do work such as planting trees, restoring koala habitats, cleaning up creeks and rivers, conserving cultural heritage sites and monitoring threatened species. "The Green Army is on the march from today," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told...
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United Kingdom: Biogas: can a green energy source be environmentally damaging?
2014-08-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: British biogas is not taking off as fast as some in the industry had hoped and the government stands accused of stunting its growth. As part of wider changes to its sustainable energy plans, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) launched a snap consultation over its subsidies for biogas plants at the end of May. "When we first introduced the 'one size fits all' [tariff] in November 2011 there were no full-scale biomethane-to-grid plants in operation," it said. Since then, DECC...
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Green garments: Industry initiatives abound
2014-08-01 12:45:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
In the past year, several developments - both new and built on previous initiatives - have emerged, suggesting the apparel and textile industry is continuing to move towards a more sustainable supply chain.
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Yingli Green Energy, AMB Energia to develop 30 MW of solar power projects in Poland
2014-08-01 01:00:00| Power Technology
Yingli Green Energy International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, has signed a collaboration agreement with AMB Energia Wytwarzanie (AMB Energia), a subsidiary of AMB Energia, for the development of 30MW of solar po
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