Topic: Alternative Energy
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday said the Senate would return for a "mopping up" session after the November election, and that he hoped to find support for a national renewable energy standard by year end. Reid, ...
Former White House adviser Podesta touts advantages of renewable energy at Las Vegas 'summit'Some supporters wore green hard hats and waved signs Tuesday equating clean energy and green jobs as industry leaders, policy experts, investors and public officials began a national "summit" ...
Aggressive approach is needed for the nation to develop renewable energyA nonpartisan think tank Wednesday outlined an ambitious plan to boost renewable energy development in America and placed Nevada and the West in the center of it.The Brookings Institution proposes the federal ...
Angle: Guinn the culprit in ' 03 tax hike, not SandovalOn the campaign trail, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has been trumpeting her appeal of a 2003 Nevada Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for the Legislature to pass a tax ...
In 19th-century America, the government awarded land grants to start what would become the transcontinental railroad and establish universities such as Rutgers and Michigan State.Now, Brookings Mountain West, a research group, is calling for a similarly ambitious effort based on the model ...
AP IMPACT: Solar energy on public lands plagued by bureaucratic delays, apparent speculationNot a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar ...
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Electric utility Exelon Corp said it agreed to buy John Deere Renewables, the wind energy business of Deere & Co, for about $860 million to generate more power from renewable sources of energy. Exelon, the largest U.S. nuclear power ...
Texas-based biofuel company plans to build its first 3 plants in MississippiTexas-based KiOR, a company with plans to produce a crude oil substitute from wood chips and other biomass, will locate its first three facilities in Mississippi. Gov. Haley Barbour and KiOR ...
Yingli Green reports 2nd-quarter profit as photovoltaic module sales climbChina-based solar cell maker Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. said Thursday that it earned a profit in the second quarter as revenue from sales of its photovoltaic modules jumped. Yingli earned 217.8 million ...
Greenpeace touts renewable energy initiative to create jobs, solve SAfrica's energy problemsSouth Africa has renewable resources that can provide solutions to the country's energy problems and create jobs — while fighting global warming, Greenpeace officials said Wednesday. "Greenpeace's estimate that 78,000 green ...
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