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Romney gets backing of Rice, Shultz at Calif. fund-raiser
Mitt Romney was endorsed by former secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and George Shultz at a fund-raiser here Wednesday night, with both arguing that Romney is best suited to right the nation’s economy and standing in the world. Shultz noted...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Solyndra LLC, Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Wind farms considering detection systems to prevent bird deaths
MOJAVE — Just before daybreak, a group of naturalists don parkas to blunt the frosty wind blowing down a narrow canyon in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles. They mount spotting scopes and cameras on tripods, and wait.
"Showtime," one...Tags: Criminal Laws, Wind Power, Natural Resources, Renewable Energy, Laws
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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, Credit and Debt, Energy Saving, Energy, Taxation
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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: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues
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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: Alternative Energy, Lawyers, Energy Saving, Judges, Jerry Brown
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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, Credit and Debt, Energy Saving, Sales, China
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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: Alternative Energy, Business, China, Renewable Energy, Energy
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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, Lobbying, Energy Saving, Energy
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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: Alternative Energy, Mark Zuckerberg, Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues
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Letters: Solar power's 'fast track'
Re "Solar standoff in the Mojave," Editorial, May 1 The Times is correct about the Genesis Solar Project when it writes, "Solar power is a vital part of the move to clean, renewable energy as well as greater independence from foreign oil." Genesis will...Tags: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Genesis (music group), Environmental Issues
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Germany's nuclear power phaseout turns off environmentalists
KLEINENSIEL, Germany — When the German government shut down half the country's nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, followed two months later by a pledge to abandon nuclear power within a decade, environmentalists cheered. A year...
Tags: Energy Saving, Sales, Natural Resources, Germany, Energy
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Sierra Club targets Puget Sound Energy in Beyond Coal campaign
The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, working in concert with a number of environmental and energy activists and researchers in Washington and Montana, announced Thursday a new push to get Puget Sound Energy to stop buying power from coal-fired...
Tags: Politics, Washington State University, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Saving, Wind Power
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