Sunday November 19th 2006, 10:32 pm
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Environmentalists concerned about global warming want the U.S. Supreme Court to turn up the heat on President George W. Bush.
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Nobel Laureates Back Case Pushing Bush to Act on Global Warming (Bloomberg.com)
Landfill gas will produce power.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 9:00 pm
Two new "waste-to-watts" projects in southern Delaware will use gas seeping up from landfills to light thousands of homes.
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Hot biofuel stocks may cool.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 9:00 pm
The global alternative-energy boom has driven up the prices of sugar, palm oil and other commodities that can be made into liquid biofuels.
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Daley’s 20% green-power goal for 2006? In reality, not 1 watt.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 8:00 pm
Five years after Daley pledged to buy a fifth of the city's electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2006, Chicago's energy mix isn't so green. Nearly all of the megawatts powering City Hall and other government buildings are still coming from nuclear and coal plants.
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Deal sweeteners.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 8:00 pm
In recent years, as politicians have tried to deal with high gas prices, concerns about global warming, and America’s dependence on OPEC, a new savior has been found: ethanol.
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Call to resist nuclear path.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 8:00 pm
Australia will take a step closer to a nuclear future today, but the former US vice-president, Al Gore, has some advice: don't.
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Nuclear nation.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 8:00 pm
Australia could have about 20 nuclear power stations built as part of a wholesale switch to atomic power, according to a landmark report to be released today.
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Europeans divided over new nuclear power stations.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 8:00 pm
Public opinion in Europe is widely divided over supporting the building of more nuclear power stations to meet the future shortage in hydrocarbon supplies, according to a poll carried out by the Financial Times.
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Groups split over coal plants.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 8:00 pm
Environmentalists in Montana and Wyoming are divided over efforts in both states to attract cleaner coal plants, with one Montana group vowing to fight efforts here while a prominent Wyoming group supports cleaner coal.
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The Gangotri glacier is shrinking.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 8:00 pm
Glaciers throughout the world are in melt mode.
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Cost of a changing climate of politics.
Sunday November 19th 2006, 8:00 pm
Many of us may have to pay a high price for global warming.
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