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Stop fighting clean energy
2016-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Tribune: Some state legislators cant or wont come to grips with the reality that coal is not the fuel of the 21st century. Like all states, Pennsylvania is required to devise a Clean Power Plan in accordance with new federal regulations. The Wolf administration is doing so as federal appeals courts deal with challenges to the regulations. The federal standard calls for Pennsylvania to reduce carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 32 percent by 2030, with measurable progress by 2022. How to achieve that...
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The huge flaw in how Congress is approaching burning wood for energy
2016-06-17 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Along with 196 other countries around the world, the United States has made a number of ambitious climate commitments that experts say will depend heavily on the expansion of renewable energy and the increasingly stringent regulation of carbon output. But some potential new legislation, which critics claim relies on scientifically questionable assumptions, has scientists and environmentalists worried about taking a step backward when it comes to climate goals. The controversy centers on a specific...
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Clean energy for poorest starved of investment: researchers
2016-06-17 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Only a tiny fraction of climate change funding is going into small-scale solar, biogas and other off-grid systems that may be the best way to get power to the world's poorest, researchers say. That problem, evident in new figures from the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), points to a challenge for the main international organization promoting access to clean energy for everyone on the planet, which this week adopted a strategy to achieve that goal earlier...
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M&As this week: Tata Power Renewable Energy, Total, and Havells India
2016-06-17 01:00:00| Power Technology
Tata Power Renewable Energy has reached an agreement with Welspun Energy to acquire its subsidiary Welspun Renewables Energy (WREPL) for approximately Rs92.49bn ($1.378bn).
Quebec-Labradors First Nation Chiefs oppose TransCanada's Energy East pipeline
2016-06-17 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The First Nation Chiefs of Quebec-Labrador in Canada has passed a resolution that officially opposed the development of North American energy company TransCanada's Energy East Tar Sands pipeline.
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