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1. First lawsuits linked to Gulf spill go to court (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - The first lawsuits linked to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill go to court Thursday, as BP prepared -- after months of trying -- to permanently seal its ruptured well.

2. Biomass Advancing in the Northeast
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Gestamp Biomass, a division of Gestamp Renewables with worldwide operations, and New Hampshire-based Clean Power Development announced that they plan to bring biomass energy projects to the Northeast region ...

3. Intelligent Energy Opens Japan Office
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Intelligent Energy has announced the appointment of Masataka Yamakawa as General Manager, Sales and Business Development for Japan and ... ...

4. Renewable Energy Policy Update For China
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

As with the rest of the global renewable energy sector, China's renewables policy has evolved considerably over recent years. Here are the latest major developments and market trends. ...

5. Clean Power Development & Gestamp To Develop Bioenergy Projects
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Gestamp Biomass and Clean Power Development LLC announced the signing of an agreement under which they will work together to develop, finance and operate biomass energy projects across the Northeast region ...

6. Beneath the Surface: A Survey of Environmental Risks from Shale Gas Development
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Washington, D.C.- Improved drilling techniques have unlocked vast new reserves of shale gas, a resource that could be large enough to displace significant amounts of coal, and an energy source that emits ...

7. Funding cuts will finish Britain's clean energy race
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

In the 1970s the UK invested about 0.15% of GDP each year in research and development (R&D) into providing cheaper and cleaner energy. Britain was putting more public money into nuclear power and other ...

8. Beneath the Surface: A Survey of Environmental Risks from Shale Gas Development
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Washington, D.C.- Improved drilling techniques have unlocked vast new reserves of shale gas, a resource that could be large enough to displace significant amounts of coal, and an energy source that emits ...

9. DOE and DOI to Spur Offshore Renewable Energy Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... energy projects. ...

10. DOE Announces US $24M for Algae Research
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Department of Energy announced the investment of up to US $24 million for three research groups to tackle key hurdles in the commercialization of algae-based biofuels. The selections will support ...

11. University of North Florida secures $9.4 million for fuel cell development
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

The University of North Florida has secured grants totalling $9.4 million from the U.S. Army and the U.S. Department of Energy for fuel ... ...

12. Topsoe and Riso DTU Receive Grant for on-Going Fuel Cell Development
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Topsoe Fuel Cell and Risø DTU have received a grant of 7.3 mill EUR from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration ... ...

13. Kevin Costner’s Oil Extractor Ready to Take Action in the Gulf
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... Concerned about the short-term and long-term ramifications of oil spills in 1993, Costner procured a technology transfer from the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory for a centrifugal oil-water ...

14. NHA Drafts Legislation to Boost Hydropower Development
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

The National Hydropower Association is proposing draft legislation titled "Hydropower Renewable Energy and Jobs Act of 2010," telling HydroWorld.com the bill is intended to significantly boost hydropower ...

15. DOI and 10 East Coast States Form an Offshore Wind Energy Consortium
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and 10 East Coast states have established the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium to promote the development of wind resources on the Outer Continental ...

16. Energy Department Offers Conditional Commitment to Support Nevada Geothermal Development with Recovery Act Funds
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a conditional commitment to provide a partial guarantee for a $98.5 million loan by John Hancock Financial Services to the Nevada Geothermal Power Company ...

17. American Municipal Power and Standard Energy Announce 300 Megawatt Solar Energy Development
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Standard Energy, LLC (AMP) and American Municipal Power, Inc., an affiliate of Standard Solar, today announced an agreement for the development of up to 300 megawatts (MW) of new solar energy generation ...

18. 3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... from coal-fired power plants in the context of the increasing demand for energy, and dealing with local impacts of mercury contamination. The single largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions is ...

19. Schneider Electric makes powerful inroads in China's emerging solar market
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... built with China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Development Co., Ltd. Dunhuang, a 10MWP grid PV power plant project and Qinghai Xitieshan, a 10MWP grid PV power station project. Schneider Electric will ...

20. Ray Stata's Commencement address
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... collaboration, MIT is uniquely positioned to tackle the world’s biggest problems — energy, climate change, poverty and the diagnosis and care of disease. Maria and I believe so strongly in that mission ...

21. U.S. to halt 33 exploration rigs in deepwater review
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The U.S. government ordered a temporary halt to drilling at 33 deepwater exploration rigs on Thursday, part of a broader response to the massive BP oil spill that threatens efforts to tap offshore fields ...

22. Walmart Foundation funds school solar projects
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"The Walmart Foundation donates $1.2 million to the National Energy Education Development Project to install solar panels on 20 schools in 5 U.S. cities. ...

23. ‘Efficiency Forward'
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

In what could serve as a model for achieving large-scale energy-efficiency improvements, MIT and Boston-based utility NSTAR on Wednesday announced an ambitious collaboration that aims to slash the Institute’s ...

24. FERC Aims to Ease the Development of Small Hydropower Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is looking to make its small hydropower licensing program more user- friendly with a new series of Web-based tools. ...

25. Categorically Excluding Domestic Energy Production
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... law and create a new extra-legal barrier to issuing new permits for energy development. This is not called for by federal law and it [...] ...

26. Renewable Energy and the Utility: The Next 20 Years
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The focus on the transition to renewable energy, energy efficiency programs and legislation surrounding these areas is spurring tremendous change in the utility industry. A lot of money and effort are ...

27. Brazilian Lessons for Industrial Policy
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Few economic ideas are more lauded and reviled than that of industrial policy. Proponents, such as those who studied the rise of the East Asian economies, swear by it. Opponents see red at its very mention. ...

28. Intelligent Energy Appoints W. Scott Innes as New VP of Business Development in the Americas
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Intelligent Energy has announced the appointment of a new vice president of business development in the Americas, W. Scott Innes. Innes ... ...

29. POET outlines renewable fuel future in testimony to House Agriculture Committee
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Ethanol producers each year produce more renewable fuel more efficiently, but the growing alternative to oil industry dominance needs bold policy to help offset more foreign oil imports in the future, ...

30. New water-splitting catalyst found
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... energy: The systems would use energy from intermittent sources like sunlight or wind to create hydrogen fuel, which could then be used in fuel cells or other devices to produce electricity or transportation ...