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KEYSTONE XL/TAR SANDS
House GOP clears highway bill with Keystone pipeline mandate, thwarts Obama (via The Hill)
TransCanada offers new Keystone XL pipeline route (via Omaha World-Herald)
RENEWABLES
Clean energy subsidies are vanishing – what should replace them? (via Washington Post)
Rivers flowing into ocean a power source? (via United Press International)
Solar energy blooms in India (via Earth2Tech)
Siemens figures out what to do with night wind (via CleanTechnica)
Danger from Three Gorges Dam may force 100,000 to move (via Seattle Times/AP)
Ontario leads Canada’s record-setting wind power expansion (via CleanTechnica)
Poll finds majority of UK public backs wind development (via Recharge)
COAL
US coal exports to China may double in 2012 (via Chicago Tribune/Reuters)
Can shareholder activism spur electric utilities to shift away from coal? (via Triple Pundit)
Oregon town weighs a future with an old energy source: coal (via New York Times)
NATURAL GAS/FRACKING
EPA finalizes first-ever air pollution rules for natural gas fracking (via The Hill)
Will Obama’s new rules make fracking better for the planet? (via Mother Jones)
Natural gas drilling spurs jobs in wildlife, software (via Wall Street Journal/AP)
Natural gas: the ‘atomic bomb’ of the energy debate (via Midwest Energy News)
For Chesapeake’s CEO, a complex web of loans (via Wall Street Journal)
New York State weighs 66,000 comments on pending fracking regulations (via InsideClimate News)
CLEAN TECH
Honda will recycle rare earth metals from old hybrid batteries (via Autoblog Green)
Nanosponge absorbs 100x its weight in oil, is guided with magnets (via TreeHugger)
CLIMATE/EMISSIONS
Investment giants urge EU to save emissions trading scheme (via BusinessGreen)
Climate coverage plummets 80% on broadcast networks from 2009 to 2011 (via Climate Progress)
TRANSPORTATION
Ford CEO: battery is third of electric car cost (via Wall Street Journal)
US latest to warn EU aviation emissions plan could undermine UN climate talks (via BusinessGreen)
OIL/GASOLINE
BP, plaintiffs ask judge to approve $7.8 billion oil-spill settlement (via The Hill)
Exxon, Rosneft to invest $500 billion in Arctic Ocean, Black Sea oil exploration (via Reuters)
Scientists: fish are sick where BP’s oil spill hit (via Miami Herald/AP)
The cost of new oil supply (via SmartPlanet)
EU’s green fuel ranking would cost little: report (via Reuters)
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
EnerNOC moves into demand response for natural gas (via Greentech Media)
Philips CEO: LED bulb prices must fall to ‘well below $10’ (via SmartPlanet)
Philips’ pricey LED bulb has impressive specs (via CNET)
GREEN BUSINESS
Sustainable banks outperform world’s largest banks by 51% (via Triple Pundit)
Pac-12 wins EPA college green power challenge (via Environmental Leader)
100 best corporate citizens revealed (via Environmental leader)
NUCLEAR
Nuclear energy accidents may become thing of past (via Forbes)
POLITICS
Obama endorsed by major environmental groups (via Washington Post)
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