Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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The Guardian
Fossil fuel companies enjoy far greater access to UK government ministers than renewable energy companies or climate campaigns, an analysis by the Guardian has revealed. Shell, the fossil fuel multi-national, has had at least 112 meetings with ...
Scientific American
In its forward-looking report for the year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts renewable energy will be the fastest-growing power source through 2040. New investments in renewable energy rose from $9 billion in the first quarter of ...
What stood out in the UN report was the fact that, for the first time ever, new installations of carbon-free renewable power plants exceeded 100,000 megawatts of capacity. That's equal to the total installed nuclear generating capacity here in the ...
The bill also calls for reducing the size of renewable projects that qualify for standard contracts from utilities to 100 kilowatts. Current state regulations, reaffirmed this year by the N.C. Utilities Commission, allows projects of up to 5 megawatts ...
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Human Habitat

The Hindu
The Expert Committee's report is possibly one of the best ever made on the fragile ecology of the Himalayas. It almost unanimously found that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) clearances were unreliable, wrongly prepared, made on the basis of false ...
Phys.Org
Leslie and her team—anthropologists, economists, ecologists, fisheries scientists, geographers, and other social scientists—gathered data on 13 social and ecological variables for each of 12 regions around Baja California Sur. They developed a ...
UW Today
3-D printing has been used to make everything from cars to medical implants. Now, University of Washington ecologists are using the technology to make artificial flowers, which they say could revolutionize our understanding of plant-pollinator ...
Naval Technology
Ecology and Environment (E & E) has been contracted to provide base development planning and engineering services for air installations compatible use zones (AICUZ) and range air installations compatible use zones (RAICUZ) studies to the Naval ...
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Water Power

ABC News
State water regulators say they are not overhauling a contentious plan that orders each California community to reduce water use because of the drought. State Water Resources Control Board officials say the latest revision, being released Tuesday ...
Newsweek
For the first time in more than 50 years, the federal government has recommended lowering the level of fluoride in drinking water. Since 1962, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) suggested that public tap water contain between 0.7 and 1 ...
CNNMoney
Researchers at Audi are making synthetic diesel fuel using only water and air. Miracle? No. Science. The German automaker announced it has created the first batch of liquid "e-diesel" at a research facility in Dresden. The clear fuel is produced ...
WFAA
The daughter, 20, told officials she was driving her mother to work and didn't see the water over the road, according to the Ellis County Sheriff's Office. Rodgers says the woman tried to drive through Chambers Creek, but the water was too deep and swift.
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