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New EU rules on energy funding phase out subsidies for renewables

Posted by bjb41 on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 in Biofuels

Funding green energy will become harder under EU rules published on Wednesday designed to replace subsidies with market-based schemes, just when the Ukraine crisis has heightened the need for alternatives to imported fossil fuel. The executive European Commission said the guidelines, whic...

The Growth of Efficient Buildings

Posted by Aaron on Monday, 25 February 2013 in Green Design

The area of building efficiency affords tremendous opportunities for both economic growth and reduced environmental impacts. Buildings are the single largest emitters of greenhouse gases. According to a UNEP study titled “Towards a Green Economy,” homes and businesses are responsible for 40 percent ...

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Obama's Climate Change Promises

Posted by rackfokus on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 in Sustainable Development

As President Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office for the second time, he has promised that climate change will be a priority in his second term. The chances that significant climate action will actually happen, however, remain slim, policy experts say. "I always have hope, but it is so...

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Pressure Mounts on BP as Obama pushes for "Next Steps"

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 13 May 2010 in Oil Spill

(Reuters) - Political pressure mounted on Friday for BP to show progress plugging a massive oil leak while residents of coastal Florida, Mississippi and Alabama learned the growing pool of oil from the leak would not strike their beaches until late on Saturday. The drifting sea of oil could...