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1. EPA to Phase in CO2 emissions permits/BACT for mid-sized sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

The Obama administration will give small businesses a break on coming carbon dioxide emissions rules but big emitters like coal-fired power plants will face a crack-down, U.S. Environmental Protection ...

2. Hurricanes’ effects on ocean temperature revisited
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... passes over an ocean, its powerful winds stir and mix the warm surface water with the colder, deeper water. This mixing results in warm water being forced down into the deep ocean and cold water being ...

3. In Profile: Alex Slocum
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... attached to the seafloor beneath the floating windmills — that pump out water when the windmill is producing excess power and then allow water to flow back in, through a generating turbine, when power ...

4. Wartsila and Hitachi Zosen Sign Agreement On Fuel Cell Based Power Plant Solutions in Japan
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Wartsila and Hitachi Zosen have signed a business development agreement to develop and market fuel cell based power solutions for ... ...

5. Qatar, Germany set up solar power joint venture (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A state-run foundation in the natural gas-rich state of Qatar says it is setting up a joint venture plant with Germany's SolarWorld to produce the main ingredient in solar panels.

6. British scientist in climate row admits 'awful' emails (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

7. In Vermont, unease over aging, leaky nuke plant (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Voters in Waitsfield and 15 other Vermont towns are using their annual town meetings on Tuesday to weigh-in on the continued operation of a nuclear power plant leaking a radioactive substance. ...

8. ENERGY: Coal-Fired Power on the Way Out?
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

The past two years have witnessed the emergence of a powerful movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States. ...

9. Entergy Corp. runs into hurdles with spinoff plan (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Power provider Entergy Corp.'s proposal to spin off its wholesale nuclear power plants into a separate company has run into snags long past the time it had hoped to close the deal. ...

10. Summary Box: Costs obstacle to nuclear renaissance (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - THE COMEBACK: The Vermont Senate's decision to block a license renewal for a nuclear plant shows that the rebirth of nuclear power in the U.S. will encounter some bumps along the way. ...

11. Costs, plant age obstacles to nuclear renaissance (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - The renaissance of nuclear power in the U.S. appears inevitable. It just may not happen as smoothly as the Obama administration and others hope. ...

12. Cell-inspired electronics
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... about 10 million energy-consuming chemical reactions, which altogether require about one picowatt (one millionth millionth of a watt) of power. MIT's Rahul Sarpeshkar is now applying architectural principles ...

13. DOE Awards Nearly $1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has awarded a conditional loan guarantee for nearly $1.4 billion to BrightSource Energy for three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants in southeastern California. Pending regulatory approval, ...

14. DOE Awards Nearly $1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has awarded a conditional loan guarantee for nearly $1.4 billion to BrightSource Energy for three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants in southeastern California. Pending regulatory approval, ...

15. Bloom Energy Receives Barrage of Publicity for New Fuel Cell
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Bloom Energy, who revealed their 'Bloom Box' SOFC energy server power plant earlier this week, has seen unprecedented publicity across ... ...

16. Vermont Senate wants Entergy reactor shut in 2012 (Reuters)
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Reuters - The Vermont Senate on Wednesday voted to close an Entergy Corp nuclear power plant in 2012, citing discovery last month of a leak releasing radioactive tritium into the groundwater. ...

17. Chevron to build solar plant at NM tailings site (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A subsidiary of oil giant Chevron Corp. plans to build what New Mexico officials say will be the largest solar power plant in the nation that uses lenses to focus sunlight onto solar cells. ...

18. Chevron to build solar plant in New Mexico (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Chevron Corp. said Tuesday it will build a solar power plant near a mine that a subsidiary operates in New Mexico. ...

19. Asia-produced ozone making its way to U.S., study finds (McClatchy Newspapers)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A new study further bolsters concerns that pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean from China and other rapidly developing Asian nations may swamp efforts to ...

20. DNR: More Wis. power plants violate Clean Air Act (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - At least five more state-run power plants are not in compliance with federal clean air regulations and need to install tighter pollution controls, Gov. Jim Doyle's administration acknowledged Fri ...

21. Power from motion and vibrations
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

This is the second of a series about MIT research on harnessing micro-sources of power (part one can be read here). The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which traverses hundreds of miles of some of the most ...

22. To date 25,000t of CO2 Emissions Avoided by Photovoltaic Plants Arsol-1 and Arsol Toledo
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... highly efficient clean energy with a total of 15 MW of power. ...

23. Inside cleantech Europe: That was the week that was!
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Solar power plant operator SunRay Renewable Energy is acquired for £277M, while the largest VC deal of the week goes to a smart grid tech company. ...

24. San Antonio utility reaches nuke plant settlement (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A consortium working to double the generating capacity of the South Texas nuclear power plant has agreed to buy up much of the San Antonio city-owned utility's stake in the project, both sides announced ...

25. Business groups challenge EPA on greenhouse gases (AP)
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AP - Several prominent business groups have joined a growing list of organizations and states challenging the federal government's finding that climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories ...

26. Manchin argues against coal ash regulation (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate coal ash from power plants as hazardous waste. ...

27. Fed loan guarantees may boost nuclear power return (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - More than $8 billion in new federal loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia could be the first step toward a nuclear renaissance in the United States, three decades after the Three ...

28. Business groups challenge EPA on greenhouse gases (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Several prominent business groups have joined a growing list of organizations and states challenging the federal government's finding that climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories ...

29. Manchin argues against coal ash regulation (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate coal ash from power plants as hazardous waste. ...

30. Fed loan guarantees may boost nuclear power return (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - More than $8 billion in new federal loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia could be the first step toward a nuclear renaissance in the United States, three decades after the Three ...