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Calif. OKs Major Solar Project Slated for Federal Land
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 17th, 2010
Greenwire: The world's largest solar thermal power plant is one step from breaking ground in California following approval yesterday by state regulators. The California Energy Commission voted unanimously to clear a state license for Solar Millennium AG's 1,000 megawatt project, completing years of often grinding environmental review. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is expected to follow suit in October, clearing the way for construction. When and if BLM clears the project, it would ...
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Obama administration accused of helping BP hide the oil in the Gulf
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 17th, 2010
Guardian: The Obama administration is facing two new charges of suppressing information about the BP oil spill. Independent scientists, environmental organisations and local groups in the Gulf have repeatedly accused government agencies of helping BP to under-estimate the amount of oil that spewed out of its well and play down its effects on marine life. The emergency phase of the spill may now be all but over: administration officials say the well could be permanently sealed by Sunday. ...
Boom times are back at Alberta’s oil sands
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 17th, 2010
GlobalPost: The boom times are back at Alberta's oil sands. What environmentalists describe as one of the worst emitters of greenhouses gases on earth has shaken off the recession. Its massive oil extraction projects now employ 27,700 workers -- 3 percent more than the previous peak in 2008. It's a sign that the United States' gluttonous appetite for the tar-like mix of bitumen and sand isn't expected to subside any time soon. America, after all, is pretty much the only client for what ...
World examines “impossible” goal to halt extinctions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 17th, 2010
Reuters: World leaders will next week consider a target for halting extinctions of animals and plants by 2020 that many experts rate impossibly ambitious given mounting threats such as climate change and loss of habitats. "Biodiversity losses are accelerating," said Anne Larigauderie, executive director of the Paris-based Diversitas Secretariat, which groups international scientists and reckons the goal laid out in a draft U.N. plan is out of reach for 2020. At the United Nations ...