"200 Chinese Subsidies Violate Rules, U.S. Says"
Chinese government subsidies to the energy industry may be among nearly 200 items the U.S. is complaining about before the World Trade Organization.
Source: NY Times, 10/07/2011
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"A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant in Nevada Struggles"
"In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run by a politically connected clean energy start-up that has relied heavily on an Obama administration loan guarantee and is now facing financial turmoil."
Source: NY Times, 10/03/2011
Advocates Push for and Against Crop Insurance
As the federal budget battle continues, President Obama outlined on Sept. 19, 2011, a package of ideas designed to cut costs and increase income over the next decade. One element of the $3 trillion package is an $8.5 billion reduction in costs for crop insurance.
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"U.S. Pushes Environmental Trade Agenda For APEC"
"The United States is pressing China and other Asia Pacific economies to agree at a leaders meeting in November to reduce tariffs and other barriers to trade in environmental goods like wind turbines and solar panels, a U.S. official said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 09/28/2011
"In North Dakota, Flames of Wasted Natural Gas Light the Prairie"
"NEW TOWN, N.D. — Across western North Dakota, hundreds of fires rise above fields of wheat and sunflowers and bales of hay. At night, they illuminate the prairie skies like giant fireflies."
Source: NY Times, 09/27/2011
"Green Houses Grow on the National Mall"
"Free for dinner in Washington? Nineteen groups of architecture students will be serving meals next week at houses they have built in West Potomac Park, adjacent to the National Mall, as part of the Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon, a kind of “America’s Got Talent” for green architecture."
Source: NY Times, 09/23/2011
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