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Whilst the power company E.ON make attempts to convince us they're "going green" (by actually asking YOU to go green) what one hand "gives" the other taketh away. Their latest campaign asks football fans to reduce their carbon footprint whilst they plot to belch out 200 times that amount of carbon every year with a new coal-fired power station!

Ben Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency, is interviewed about the linkages between energy, water and climate change. That includes, particularly, a regulation EPA has proposed aimed at protecting drinking water around the areas where carbon dioxide would be stored underground through future carbon sequestration technology.

New Zealand's isolated geographical location has lead to an energy portfolio that contains a large renewable energy mix. Electricity is generated mostly from hydro and geothermal energy. Wind is a growing energy resource. For transport, New Zealand relies on oil imports. No wonder that the New Zealanders are interested in exploring electric or fuel cell vehicles, with the electricity and hydrogen generated in New Zealand in an environmentally friendly way.

Using bureaucratic or legal means, such as zoning or water use, environmental groups have stopped 65 coal plants in the last three years. The LA Times explains its really a war about climate change, “Coal puts twice as much temperature-raising carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as natural gas, second to coal as the most common power plant fuel.“

Three advisers to the 2008 presidential candidates describe their respective candidate's energy, environmental and climate change policies should their candidate be elected president.

Province Introduces Emissions Tax on Coal; New Energy Conversion Program Part of Manitoba's Climate Change Action

India’s Tata Power group just gained financial backing from the International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank, for its “Ultra Mega” power plant.

If global warming is evident, that means that all nations should do a considerable effort to reverse the effects of our situation. Apparently India is not going in this direction. It has been said that a $4.2 billion coal-fired power plant is an upcoming project to respond to India’s enormous need for more and affordable electricity.

The same Washington Post newspaper that so courageously uncovered the Watergate assault on American values now investigates the way Vice-President Cheney secretly manipulates the enactment of environmental policies to make sure his supporters wring the last drop of water, coal, power and cash from the natural world Americans depend on. He reroutes rivers, fills in valleys, drills where the polar bear should roam - a little asthma or cancer never seems to have hurt anyone he ever met....

Despite all the talk about solar energy, it only generates a measly .1% of electricity i n the US. Meanwhile, national demand for electricity is growing by 2% annually. Considering that solar technology has been in use for decades, why is it not more w idespread?

Washington, DC - Donald Hodel, Chairman of Summit Power Group, Inc., says his firm will announce a full-scale coal gasification project with carbon capture.

Climate change campaigners marked the third annual "Fossil Fool's Day" on Tuesday with a series of protests around the world highlighting the need for us all to reduce the amount of carbon we burn.

A review of advances in solar panel technology and traditional polycrystalline silicon technology, with comments about advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Problems with the Chinese silicon production industry are mentioned, as are successes in Germany and Spain. Links and references are provided.

Ford Motor company announced today it would be offering a new range of alternative-fuel vehicles by early 2010, powered by what some think is the US’s only hope for energy independence: coal.

In preparation for the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) Policy and Technical Group Business Meetings to be held in Cape Town, South Africa on April 13-17, 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy provides a briefing to interested parties on current CSLF activities and the U.S. position on CSLF issues.