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"Call to Curb Speculators in Energy"

"The country's top regulator of commodity markets said Tuesday that the government should 'seriously consider' strict limits on the trades of purely financial investors in the futures markets for oil, natural gas and other energy products."

Source: NYTimes, 07/29/2009

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"A Clunker's Fate Once It's Cashed In"

What will happen to all the "clunkers" traded in for gas-sipping new cars under a new federal rebate program?

Source: Environment Report, 07/28/2009

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"Fight Brewing Over Dormant Wells"

"More than 20,000 old oil and gas wells across [Alberta] have been sitting abandoned or inactive for more than a decade without being cleaned up, worrying landowners and environmentalists who say the sites unnecessarily eat up and possibly contaminate valuable farm land."

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Source: Calgary Herald, 07/28/2009

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"On Wood, Burning Questions"

Wood has been hailed as a renewable fuel and is being used in New England power plants. But it is not undergoing some serious scrutiny of its environmental consequences.

Source: Boston Globe, 07/27/2009

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"Interview: Concentrating Solar Thermal"

"Whenever solar power is mentioned, critics are quick to note -- when there's no sun, there's no power. Lester Graham talked with the author of a report who says one type of solar power can store energy."

Source: Environment Report, 07/23/2009

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"Feed-in Tariffs for Solar Continue To Spread"

Policies that allow small producers of alternative energy to sell it to utilities at or above market rates art catching on in the U.S. They could help revolutionize energy production.