Executive Departures at Clean Energy Firms

Source Blogs NYTimes by TODD WOODY on Friday, March 12, 2010

Executive Departures at Clean Energy Firms

Green Business - In the last week, the president of SolarReserve and the chief executives of Clipper Windpower and Aurora Biofuels have stepped down.

Five Countries Fall Behind on European Renewable Energy Goals

Source Blogs NYTimes by JAMES KANTER on Friday, March 12, 2010

Green Business - The European Commission said on Thursday that five countries were failing to meet goals for renewable energy but that they could make up their quotas by buying electricity from North Africa and the Balkans.

Home Efficiency Program Poised for Growth

Home Efficiency Program Poised for Growth

Source Blogs NYTimes by KATE GALBRAITH on Friday, March 12, 2010

Green Business - A program to encourage homeowners to add solar panels and make their houses more energy efficient through higher property taxes aims to scale up.

Ontario's Clean Water Tech Cluster

Ontario's Clean Water Tech Cluster

Source Blogs NYTimes by JOHN LORINC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

Green Business - Ontario's Liberal government, citing growing water demand and limited supplies, is angling to make the province a clean-watertechnologypowerhouse.

A Different Route to Corn-Based Fuel

Source Blogs NYTimes by MATTHEW L. WALD on Thursday, March 11, 2010

Green Business - A Colorado company says ethanol is fine, but isobutanol is better.

Developers Lament Loss of Federal Wind Subsidies in Canada

Developers Lament Loss of Federal Wind Subsidies in Canada

Source Blogs NYTimes by LARS KROLDRUP on Thursday, March 11, 2010

Green Business - "The failure to extend and expand the ecoENERGY program will slow wind energy development and reduce our ability to compete with the United States," a wind industry representative said.

California Utility Regulators Not Quite Ready for Fuel Cells

California Utility Regulators Not Quite Ready for Fuel Cells

Source Blogs NYTimes by TODD WOODY on Thursday, March 11, 2010

Green Business - While Google, Wal-Mart and other corporations have embraced fuel cells, California regulators have turned down requests from the state's two biggest utilities to install the technology.

Increasing Yields and Decreasing Fertilizer Waste on Subsistence Farms

Increasing Yields and Decreasing Fertilizer Waste on Subsistence Farms

Source Blogs NYTimes by JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Green Business - A new agriculturaltechnologythat cuts nitrogen fertilizer waste in half while boosting rice yields is spreading quickly in Bangladesh and other poor nations.

Alberta's Tar Sands and the Dead Duck Trial

Alberta's Tar Sands and the Dead Duck Trial

Source Blogs NYTimes by JOHN LORINC on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Green Business - Syncrude, the Canadian oil sands giant, is defending itself against criminal charges for the deaths of thousands of birds in one of its tailings ponds.

California to Regulate 'Most Potent' Greenhouse Gas

California to Regulate 'Most Potent' Greenhouse Gas

Source Blogs NYTimes by JIM WITKIN on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Green Business - Starting in 2011, California will regulate emissions from electric utility equipment of the gas sulfur hexafluoride -- or SF6 -- which is used in high voltage transmission systems in circuit breakers, switches and insulation.

Debating the Nuclear Waste Problem

Debating the Nuclear Waste Problem

Source Blogs NYTimes by MATTHEW L. WALD on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Green Business - Speaking at a nuclear energy conference in Washington Tuesday, representatives of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission suggested that a new, long-term policy on nuclear waste storage was sorely needed.

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