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Energy Commission poised to boost building energy standards
SACRAMENTO -- California homes and buildings are about to become a lot more energy efficient, if state regulators, as expected, approve new building standards. The Energy Commission has scheduled for Thursday a last debate and vote on triennial, 2013...
Tags: Global Warming, Politics, Weather, House Building, Environmental Issues
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Obama urges Congress to extend clean-energy tax credits
NEWTON, Iowa — From a wind-power factory in this battleground state, President Obama urged Congress to extend tax credits he said would save jobs in the field of clean-energy production.
Obama said continuing the production tax credit would save...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Energy, Environmental Issues, Wind Power
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Utility regulators more than double California's solar power goal
SACRAMENTO — California is poised to more than double its targeted electricity output from rooftop solar panels. The state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday tweaked its rules to authorize an increase in the number of residential, commercial...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Solar Energy
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Has blazing a trail in solar energy cost California too much?
That ray of light you see peeking through all the clouds darkening California's future? That's the sun. More specifically, solar power, in which California is the hands-down national leader. The state's installed solar generating capacity of about 1.2...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Judges, Justice System, Jerry Brown
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Solar eclipse 2012: Snow, clouds threaten eclipse on Mount Fuji in Japan
L.A. NOWClouds were threatening a view of the eclipse on top of Mount Fuji in Japan. A crew of climbers at the peak, sponsored by Panasonic featuring its solar power technology, was battling fierce winds and snow atop the 12,388-foot peak....... -
U.S. imposes stiff tariffs on Chinese for 'dumping' solar panels
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has decided to slap tariffs of 31% and higher on solar panels imported from China for “dumping” them in the American market, the Commerce Department announced Thursday in a widely anticipated decision expected to have...
Tags: Renewable Energy, China, Environmental Issues, Energy, Business
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Kelly Thomas: Defense demands proof police killed homeless man
L.A. NOWAn attorney representing two Fullerton police officers charged in the death of a mentally ill homeless man challenged a trauma surgeon Tuesday to review the graphic video of Kelly Thomas’ beating and pinpoint the moment when a police officer might... -
U.S. orders tariffs on Chinese solar panels
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration ordered tariffs of 31% and higher on solar panels imported from China, escalating a simmering trade dispute with China over a case that has sharply divided American interests in the growing clean-energy...
Tags: Republican Party, Energy and Resource Industries, Renewable Energy, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Environmental Issues
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Solar project in desert gets boost from California Legislature
Despite strong opposition from environmentalists, the state Assembly on Thursday approved controversial legislation that allows a solar energy developer to bypass local agencies in seeking to build a large-scale power plant in a valley that is home to...
Tags: Politics, Companies and Corporations, Renewable Energy, Energy, Environmental Issues
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Solar-powered catamaran goes around the world in 584 days
In the spring of 2004 Raphael Domjan, a Swiss electrical engineer, conceived of a borderline insane idea -- to travel around the world aboard a ship powered entirely by solar energy. It would be an adventure and a statement. If he could do it, he would...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Mark Zuckerberg, Solar Energy
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Solar standoff in the Mojave
Developers in the Mojave Desert last month were so keen on going forward with their project that they didn't consult with Native Americans about the ancient objects that might lie underground or conduct the required archaeological work in a thorough way....
Tags: Genesis (music group), Archaeology, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Arts and Culture
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Public split over elimination of U.S. energy subsidies, poll finds
The American public is divided about whether to eliminate federal subsidies for any form of energy and is giving less support to nuclear power and U.S. funding of renewable energy, a new poll has found.
Fifty-four percent of respondents opposed doing...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Renewable Energy, Parties and Movements, George Mason
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