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The draft energy bill plans major changes to the market, causing concern that consumers' bills could rise and renewable energy is being neglectedThe biggest reforms to the UK energy sector in two decades were set out on Tuesday, prompting warnings from consumer groups and green campaigners that they would raise bills and penalise renewable energy while boosting nuclear power

Plans to create the world's first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive were announced today by the Coalition for Sustainable Rail (CSR), a collaboration of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE) and the nonprofit Sustainable Rail International (SRI). CSR draws on the carbon-neutral solid biofuel research expertise of the University of Minnesota and the modern steam

LAVAL, QC, May 22, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - To protect the environment and cut down on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the Centre de santé et de services sociaux (CSSS) de Laval wants to promote—among its staff—means ...

Is Big Oil losing sleep over market competition from non-fossil "renewable alternatives" such as ethanol, windmills and sunbeams? In reality, rampaging greenhouse gas regulatory attacks on coal-fired power are a blessing.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bavaria's stock exchange will abandon its carbon emissions certificate trading operations in the EU-traded CO2 market on June 30 after volumes in Europe "plunged to practically zero" in recent months, it said on Tuesday.

Besides creating the new hydraulic fracturing rules, it adjust Ohio's renewable energy standard to include waste heat such as that generated from factory smokestacks. Supporters said the bill balances environment, public health and safety, and commerce ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's progress in reforming its forestry sector will not be sufficient to meet its pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2020, Norway's environment minister said on Tuesday.

Government's draft energy bill will replace current subsidies with complex new support system that may favour larger suppliersA dash for gas, a major fillip for nuclear power and blows to renewable energy – these are widely expected to be the contents of the government's much-anticipated draft energy bill, the main contents of which will be outlined by ministers in the afternoon

Unlike hydrocarbon fuels, such as oil, coal and natural gas, where carbon dioxide and other contaminants are released into the atmosphere when used, hydrogen fuel usage produces pure water as the only byproduct. By optimizing the science of water ...

Germany's long support for wind and solar energy is delivering zero-cost electricity at times. In contrast, the UK's new energy policy seeks to underwrite the rising cost of nuclear"Too cheap to meter": that was the infamous boast of the nuclear power industry in its heyday. It has been catastrophically discredited by history

One company that is particularly happy about the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission's recent recommendation that the state's solar feed-in tariff be extended to include all small-scale low emissions and renewable energy generation ...

In addition to the fundamental supply/demand imbalance resulting from a combination of population growth, wealth accumulation in previously smaller economies, and peak oil is the geopolitical environment that is increasingly characterized by tension ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Coastal seagrass can store more heat-trapping carbon per square mile (kilmometre) than forests can, which means these coastal plants could be part of the solution to climate change, scientists said in a new study.

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Reluctance to raise ambitions to cut greenhouse gas emissions due to economic constraints is threatening progress towards limiting global warming, delegates at United Nations' climate talks in Germany warned on Monday.