Topic: Alternative Energy Technology
In Utah, company aims to store energy in air
AP News
Developer plans to carve out Utah salt caverns for natural gas, compressed air or CO2A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and solving one of the most ...
Green power goal to add more jobs, study suggests
Reuters Environmental Online Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A national mandate requiring utilities to generate 25 percent of power from sources such as wind and solar energy by 2025 will create three times more jobs than weaker measures Congress is considering, a study released by renewable energy advocates said on Thursday. RES-Alliance for Jobs, a coalition ...
Obama eyes biofuels, clean coal in new climate push
Reuters Environmental Online Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama laid out new steps on Wednesday to nudge the United States toward energy independence, backing measures to boost production of biofuels and bury pollution from coal. Using the new initiatives to garner support for a climate and energy bill stalled in the U.S. Senate ...
House bill would prevent EPA regulating carbon
Reuters Environmental Online Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With congressional action on climate legislation in doubt, two House committee chairmen have filed a bill to block the government from regulating greenhouse gases under its own power. The lawmakers say Congress, not "unelected bureaucrats," should set environmental policy. Congress has squabbled for months over a comprehensive climate ...
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