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The ten most polluted places in the world.

This is a story about a third generation dairy farmer facing a critical choice: continue raising his herd of dairy cows practicing conventional farming, or switch over to an organic dairy operation.

This hearing explores the degree to which nuclear power could provide a solution for addressing climate change.The contemplated future role of nuclear power in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions will require a monumental capital investment, many years if not decades of planning and construction, extensive international coordination, and substantial assumption of risk by the general public and by investors.

This hearing explores the competitiveness of U.S. industry after planned passage of a cap-and-trade program to control greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change. It also explores how to encourage maximum participation of developing countries in global climate change control.

The ethanol industry isn’t the only group up in arms about pervasive negative reporting on biofuels (see yesterday’s post: Ethanol Industry: Jobs Are Better Than Food?).

Two soybean growers’ groups have suspended $1.5 million in funding from the University of Minnesota, due to research showing that biofuels could worsen global warming.

The purpose of the oversight hearing is to receive testimony on the energy market effects of the recently-passed renewable fuel standard and the potential harm that standard might cause to the biofuels industry.

Sustainability is a core part of fashion’s future and in the last decade, ecological and ethical concerns have moved from the fringes of the fashion and textile industry towards its heart...

James Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality, discusses Bush administration's efforts to advance international climatechange policy as well as an initiative to remove tariff barriers for import and export of clean energy technologies.

US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez talks about the economic opportunities from deploying low-carbon energy technologies, including the growth potential from unleashing the economy from energy constraints.

The Sustainability Yearbook is the world’s most comprehensive reference work for assessing exchange-listed companies according to their economic, ecological and societal success factors. Only the best 15% of the companies in 57 industry sectors are included in the Yearbook...

Ecolabels are everywhere from Wal- Mart ’s “seafood aisle” to my local grocery store. But, what do these labels really mean? Ecolabelling.org - your source on the background of over 285 ecolabels around the world - makes it easier to answer these questions and more by sharing a global database of who’s deciding what’s green.

An environmental “stealth tax” on business could raise hundreds of million of pounds for the taxman over the next five years through the auction of a large chunk of the next round of carbon emission permits.

The House Committee on Science and Technology advanced two bills for consideration by the full House. Energy storage technologies and industrial energy efficiency research and development were the focus of separate bills before the Committee. The Committee also passed H.R. 3775, the Industrial Energy Efficiency Research and Development Act of 2007.

Four top VCs reveal where they were placing their cleantech bets at GoingGreen. Topping the list were energy efficiency, utility scale projects,building materials and transport.

The Subcommittee on Energy and Environment holds a hearing on the Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP), and prospects
for improving the energy efficiency and environmental performance of the country's most energy-intensive manufacturing processes
through technological advancement and industrial process assessments.