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• No sign of ban ending early
  Sep 8, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
  ...to Bromwich, who was accompanied by two other bureau officials. Notably, the Joint Industry Oil Spill Preparedness and Response Task Force and the Joint Industry Subsea Well Control and Containment Task Force presented preliminary findings on lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon spill and recommendations to improve spill response. Among them were plans to find better ways of containing blowouts and tracking submerged oil. Task force members looking into spill prevention...
• Proposed energy park feeds into regional bioscience plans
  Sep 8, 2010 — Tampa Tribune
  SYDNEY -- The proposed Infinitus Renewable Energy Park slated to replace a rundown former phosphate mine would be just the latest business to join Hillsborough's County growing biosciences cluster. The alternative energy park will create clean energy, clean food and clean jobs, developer Kyle Mowitz told a room full of bioscience enthusiasts gathered in Tampa recently. Plans for the energy park are still going through the Hillsborough County approval process, but appear to be on...
• ZBB Energy says annual loss widens
  Sep 8, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  That includes a $10 million financing vehicle with the investment firm Socius Capital, he said. Before the earnings announcement, ZBB's shares closed Tuesday at 53 cents, down 6 cents. Shares have lost nearly 40% since Aug. 13, the day its stock jumped on news that President Barack Obama was coming to visit the company.
• Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.
  Sep 7, 2010 — New York Times
  Ltd., also based in Beijing, installed the turbines, completing construction in February 2010. Shanghai's Zhongtian Technologies Submarine Optic Fiber Cable Co. By November 2007, the Bohai model turbine was installed.
• EDITORIAL
  Sep 7, 2010 — Tampa Tribune
  And don't forget the impact that the death of the program will have on solar power businesses in Florida. The rebates were a big enticement. The people owed money participated in the state's Solar Energy Systems Incentives Program in good faith. Some residents reportedly checked the site to make sure money was available before installing systems, only to learn afterwards that the program was broke.
• Germans plan to keep nuclear plants going
  Sep 7, 2010 — The Boston Globe
  ...renewed appetite for nuclear energy in Europe despite controversy over the subject since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.Merkel's government has cast the deal as a way to keep energy cheap until more renewable energy is available. Existing coal-fired plants raise concerns about emissions of the greenhouse gases believed to cause global warming, while renewables such as wind remain more expensive than coal or nuclear and now provide only a small part of the country's needs.The government's...
• Nantucket Sound project to face foes at key state hearings
  Sep 7, 2010 — Boston Herald
  ...czar. After years of heated debate, opponents and proponents do agree on one thing: The Cape Wind-National Grid hearings are unprecedented for the issues involved and the attention they've drawn. "As the first offshore wind installation in the U.S. and the start of a new Massachusetts-based industry, Cape Wind is a historic project," Bowles said. "In all my years covering energy issues, I have never seen a DPU case with this type of interest," said Rio. "A typical DPU...
• Report card on South Hampton Roads legislators
  Sep 7, 2010 — The Virginian-Pilot
  The legislation has the support of Senate Democratic leaders and was approved by the Judiciary Committee but has been awaiting Senate action since May. The bill has stalled in a Senate committee. The bill was offered by Republicans as an alternative to the Democrats' climate control bill but was rejected by the House.
• Wind industry fights to defend its position as clean energy alternative
  Sep 7, 2010 — The Daily Oklahoman
  Some lawmakers have promoted a broader mandate, called the clean energy standard, which would allow for more than just renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy. And groups representing natural gas companies have argued that natural gas should be included in such a standard. Bode recently suggested that the industry's future is dependent on a renewable energy standard, and she said she was in the fight "to the bitter end." Newstex ID:...
• At State, Clinton gains stature
  Sep 6, 2010 — Politico
  ... The efforts of Middle East peace envoy Mitchell "are bearing fruit and bringing that issue to the fore...which is a State issue," Rothkopf noted, while the handover in Iraq, and critical issues in Afghanistan-Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and with China "are all State issues." Clinton “needs to be the real time line between the president and the [Middle East peace] negotiations,” veteran U.S. Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller...