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DOE Budget Targets Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency Advances

Posted by Environmental Leader on 02/02/2010

President Barack Obama’s $28.4 billion fiscal year 2011 budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE) targets the Administration’s commitment to create jobs with the development of a clean energy economy, investment in advanced science, research and innovation, as well as improvem ...

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Bill Gates Sinks $4.5M into ‘Transparent’ Climate Change Research

Posted by Environmental Leader on 01/02/2010

Bill Gates is investing at least $4.5 million of his own money into geoengineering research, aimed at combating global climate change, with an emphasis on transparency, reports Wired. At the same time, in light of the hacked climate e-mails, a former Commander of the Pacific fleet is asking Presi ...

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GE, Intel, Ford Sit Atop Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index

Posted by Environmental Leader on 29/01/2010

GE sits on top of yet another ranking of sustainable companies, the Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index.GE also garnered the top ranking on a separate list of corporate climate leaders released this week.  The top five leaders in the Corporate Knights Global 100 list of large sustainable firms a ...

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U.S. Officially Pledges to Cut GHG Emissions by 17%

Posted by Environmental Leader on 29/01/2010

Bolstering the global warming deal made at the Copenhagen talks in December, the Obama administration officially pledged that the United States would cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, reports the Baltimore Sun.President Barack Obama said ...

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Star-studded video call-to-action on clean energy

Posted by DeshRaj on 29/01/2010

Green celebs have come hard on pressing the Congress to pass the first-ever climate and clean energy bill, currently pending in the Senate, via a web video campaign dubbed This Is Our Moment. Passing this bill will decrease our dependence on foreign..

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