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Can California meet its ambitious greenhouse gas goals?
2015-08-23 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When President Obama announced his controversial and ambitious Clean Power Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, Californians gave a collective yawn. The president's goal of generating 28% of the nation's electricity from renewable resources by 2030 paled next to California's push, which began nearly a decade ago, to fuel 33% of its electrical needs with solar, wind and other renewables by 2020. The state's commitment to a serious climate change policy began in 2006 with the...
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Diesel prices, now less than gas at the pump, likely to rise into the fall harvest
2015-08-22 14:42:48| Agriculture - Topix.net
The price of diesel fuel is poised to jump this fall, just as Midwest farmers need more fuel for harvest, a CHS energy analyst says. The warning from Tony Headrick, energy market analyst for CHS Hedging in Inver Grove Heights, comes as gasoline prices are falling after a large Indiana oil refinery recovers from an unexpected major outage that spiked gas prices as far away as Minnesota.
Tennessee Valley Authority to use more gas, renewable power
2015-08-21 23:39:39| Energy - Topix.net
The country's largest public utility will rely more on natural gas, renewable energy and even energy efficiency in the future. The Tennessee Valley Authority 's board of directors Friday unanimously approved an Integrated Resource Plan that will serve as a roadmap for how the utility meets its customers' energy needs over the next 20 years.
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Weekly US oil and natural gas rig count up by 1 to 885
2015-08-21 21:46:57| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
" Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. this week increased by one to 885. Houston-based Baker Hughes said Friday 674 rigs were seeking oil and 211 explored for natural gas.
Coal, oil, gas: None shall pass
2015-08-21 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald Independent: Retired professional photographer Rick Rappaport was standing in 6 inches of water on the overcrowded floating dock, watching the drama unfold before him. The Fennica, a massive Shell icebreaker ship, was inching down Oregon`s Willamette River en route to Alaska. It threaded between Greenpeace climbers who`d suspended themselves on ropes from the St. John`s Bridge like 13 human-sized chrysalises, their yellow and red wing-like banners fluttering in the hot breeze. Beneath them, kayakers were...
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