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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs into law a mandate from the The California Air Resources Board requiring approximately 14 municipal landfills to install equipment capable of capturing methane gas.

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Climatologist James Hansen and actress Daryl Hannah were among those arrested yesterday for protesting mountaintop removal strip mining in West Virginia

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Progress is made with difficult issues facing the Major Economies Forum on energy, development, and climate

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A brief summary of Waxman-Markey energy and climate legislation. Now passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, will it pass Congress intact this year?

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Australia opts to delay its emissions trading program due to economic concerns. Delay’s are likely to cost money and leave industry with no clear signal on how to approach investments on CO2 reductions.

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The Canadian government’s Agri-Opportunities program is getting behind a community-driven project that aims to turn 50 different kinds and 40,000 metric tons of agricultural waste into clean, renewable heat and power, as well as organic fertilizer.

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Reno, Nevada-based Ormat Technologies secures $42 million in debt financing to carry on with expansion plans at the Lake Amatitlan geothermal power plant in Guatemala.

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The oil industry special interests groups have spent nearly $200 million dollars for TV ads since Barack Obama took office on January 20th, according to Politico.com

Avaaz.org, a human rights and sustainability advocacy organization, has produced the followed ad to help bring to light the high-priced propaganda campaign designed to confuse the public and prevent positive action on climate and energy policy.

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A Massachusetts-based wind power company is searching for a site for a new wind turbine factory in New England–to be the first of its kind in the US–in the wake of concluding an exclusive licensing agreement with a Danish manufacturer of “queen-sized” wind turbines.

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Forests, considered to be a major partner in fighting greenhouse gases, are now at the center of a new study being released to the United Nations Forum on Forestry over the next two weeks. The United Nations Forum on Forestry will meet April 20 – May 1 at UN Headquarters in New York City to discuss various forest related issues.