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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
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Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration’s answers to climate change. The 2011 budget, released this week, promised new loans for the construction of nuclear power plants, and on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House, and other departments detailed steps to encourage ethanol and clean coal production.
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House Ag committee chair Collin Peterson vows to sink the Waxman-Markey climate change bill.
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The Obama administration creates the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to help set new standards for the biofuels industry.
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The Europeans seem confident they’re at a competitive advantage in the current climate and economic crisis because they’ve been playing by the (environmental) book for the past decade.
Brussels has just adopted an Energy and Climate Package (pdf) that insiders boast will set the scene for a “new global industrial revolution”. Those are the very words the European Energy commissioner used to describe the new laws which were passed April 6. Curious what this is all about?
Continue Reading Will Europe Become Energy Independent in a Generation?
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Algae-to-biofuels pioneer OriginOil announced a breakthrough process that extracts and separates a biofuel oil from the algae that produce it and the watery medium in which they grow.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University believe Duckweed will be a key to sustainable biofuel ethanol production.
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A review of the proceeding of the pre-conference briefing of the Algae Biofuel World Summit in San Francisco
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Day Two from the International Scientific Congress in Copenhagen projects up to 40% of global electricity supply will come from renewable energy.
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Energy security is on everyone’s mind but there’s increasing skepticism that ethanol contributes positively toward that goal. Various environmental organizations are voicing strong objections against the generous subsidies the sector is receiving.
Continue Reading Environmental Organizations Call For End To Ethanol Subsidies
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U.S. scientists say they can turn E.coli, a strain of bacteria present in the human digestive tract, into a fuel that is twice or three times more efficient than ethanol. The scientists, attached to the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to create a strain for the first time that generates alcohol with five carbon atoms per molecule instead of the regular two or three. That´s important because the larger, longer chain molecules contain more energy, something of a “holy grail” for the fuel industry.
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