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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference after a meeting of the federal government and the German states governors about the countries' energy future at the chancellery in Berlin on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany beefs up monitoring of nuclear shutdown

The German government will more closely oversee the country's move from nuclear power to renewable energy, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday — a mammoth 10-year project for Europe's biggest economy that has been going slowly so far. Merkel said she will be meeting with all of Germany's 16 state governors ...

Clean Ocean Action pushes for law protecting coast

The Clean Ocean Action environmental group will cover the New Jersey and New York shoreline this summer in a campaign to build support for federal laws protecting the ocean. The group says the shore faces threats from ocean blasting for oil and gas development, pollution and reckless development. Participants will ...

Texas Railroad Commission candidates fire at feds

Take a handful of candidates, toss in a few jabs at the federal government about over-regulation and add a splash of toilet humor. Mix it together and you've got the Republican primary for the Texas Railroad Commission, an agency that doesn't' have anything to do with railroads but regulates the ...

Environmentalists criticize Ohio drilling rules

State lawmakers heard more than six hours of testimony Monday from environmentalists and others with concerns about a bill laying out Ohio's new regulations for horizontal shale drilling. The House Public Utilities Committee has scheduled a tentative vote on the bill Tuesday. Besides rules for shale drilling, the wide-ranging legislation ...

School kids urge Crayola to rethink recycling

A group of California grade school students wants Crayola to start a recycling program for spent plastic markers, but the company doesn't appear ready to make such a move. About 40 students at Sun Valley elementary school in San Rafael, Calif., have been promoting an online petition aimed at nudging ...

Conn. subsidies seen spurring home solar power

Dmitri Donskoy figures he'll save only $20 a month on his electricity bill after solar panels are installed on the roof of his home under a state-subsidized program. But he shrugs it off because the green energy appeals to his environmental concerns. Donskoy, a software developer in Prospect, said he ...

Geothermal efforts reach crossroads in Nevada

Geology made Nevada a key player in the world of geothermal energy, in which heat from the Earth's core is recovered as steam or hot water and used to generate electricity. With an estimated resource capacity of up to 2,125 megawatts in development, the Silver State boasts the largest number ...

Vt. governor signs 3 energy bills

Standing next to an array of solar panels and across the road from a small hydroelectric dam, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed legislation on Friday designed to boost development of renewable energy in the state. Shumlin signed three energy-related bills whose highlights include: — Promoting development of small power dams and ...

China rejects US ruling in solar dumping case

China's government on Friday rejected a U.S. antidumping ruling against its makers of solar power equipment and Chinese manufacturers warned possible higher tariffs might hurt efforts to promote clean energy. The conflict has worsened U.S.-Chinese trade tensions. The two governments have pledged to cooperate in developing renewable energy but accuse ...

US imposes stiff tariffs on China solar panels

The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized products. The Commerce Department said Chinese producers had dumped solar cells and panels in the United States at margins ranging from 31 ...

US gov't sets stiff tariffs on China solar panels

Transmission project proposed for northern NM

A Colorado-based company is partnering with the Western Area Power Administration to explore the potential of developing a 93-mile transmission project in New Mexico. Lucky Corridor LLC says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Western Area Power Administration. The agency markets and delivers renewable power in a ...

Bangladesh announces probe into Grameen Bank units

Bangladesh has ordered a four-member commission to investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. The probe came weeks after Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith said the bank's board had not authorized most of the affiliates. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ...

Nevada panel seeks balance to protect sage grouse

A special panel appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval is on a fast-track edict to find a way protect sage grouse without sacrificing Nevada's economic development efforts or rural lifestyles. At its inaugural meeting Tuesday, the 10-member Greater Sage Grouse Advisory Committee was told the governor's goal is to have a ...

Wal-Mart to install solar panels in Massachusetts

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is announcing plans to install solar panels at Massachusetts stores in the next two years, making it the largest user of solar power in the state. Company officials, joined by Rick Sullivan, the state's secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, announced the initiative Tuesday at the Statehouse. ...

NREL director sees lesser role for natural gas

The director of the National Renewal Energy Laboratory says the world needs to phase out scaled-up investments in natural-gas fired power plants to blunt manmade climate change. Dan Arvizu spoke Monday in Denver at the World Renewal Energy Forum. Natural gas-fired power plants emit less carbon dioxide and other air ...

Mid-Atlantic wind transmission line clears hurdle

A huge underwater power line to serve wind farms planned off the East Coast cleared a regulatory hurdle Monday, although construction is still years away. The project, known as the Atlantic Wind Connection, would enable up to 7,000 megawatts of electricity to be produced at offshore wind farms from Virginia ...

BLM Director Bob Abbey to retire

A longtime Interior Department official who has headed the Bureau of Land Management for the past three years, Bob Abbey, is retiring. The 60-year-old Abbey has directed the land management agency since 2009, sharply increasing its focus on renewable energy, along with its traditional duties of managing oil and gas ...

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign stop held at KP Kauffman Co., an oil and gas production and drilling company in Fort Lupton, Colo.,Wednesday, May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Romney says Obama has failed on energy policy

Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama taking credit for increased American energy production is like Romney claiming responsibility for the Red Sox's World Series wins when he was Massachusetts governor. In each case, neither one has anything to do with the other, he said Wednesday. Standing near oil drilling ...

Hawaii bills aim to reduce oil use, energy costs

Legislation before the governor could expand geothermal energy production across the state. The pending measures could increase the geothermal output on all islands by amending the Hawaii State Planning Act to encourage development of geothermal energy on state and public trust land. "I really believe that the consumer should own ...