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(AP) — The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found. More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind

(AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground. Killing these iconic ... His administration has championed a $1 billion-a-year tax break to the industry that has nearly doubled the amount of wind power in his first term

Georgia's solar industry wants the state to expand its use of the renewable energy source. But some proponents claim that Georgia Power is standing in the way.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Poland's government said two-and-a-half years ago it was going to change the support system for such projects by writing a dedicated renewable energy law. Industry lobbying and disagreements between three ministries have led to different draft versions of ...

About 300 Borneo tribespeople staged a protest at a world hydroelectric industry meeting in Malaysia on Wednesday to denounce dams they say are destroying forests and native ways. Officials in the Malaysian ...

Petition organiser Jim Benn says the wind farm would be detrimental to the island's long term future. "Here we have a unique position in the world in that we are pretty well clean of industry, we're pretty well clean of all kinds of things that could damage our ...

“Wind power has been around since Don Quixote and it belongs in an industrial museum not in a modern economy. “For too much of the time, the wind just sucks subsidies when it should be turning turbines. “The 20% renewable energy target is unachievable ...

Thailand also has an aggressive renewable energy initiative. The Ministry of Energy has issued an Alternative Energy Development Plan (AEDP 2012-2021), which aims to supply 25% of national consumption by renewable energy resources by 2021.

Tops and branches from tree-felling sites are reborn in the laboratory as compact pellets. However, the energy industry will not act until the price is right.

The purpose of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard is to encourage the growth of a clean, renewable, pollution-free energy industry in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, a bill has been introduced in the state House of Representatives that would give the ... Both wind and solar, true renewable energy sources, are better alternatives that do not pollute and provide more jobs per unit of energy than natural gas and trash incineration do

Two Roseville solar companies are at opposite sides of the spectrum—one says it’s seeing a lot of green while another says it’s losing power.

The nuclear disaster in Japan two years ago ignited a push to develop a new and clean energy industry, but those efforts are being stymied by a raft of regulations. As part of its policy goal to diversify supply, the government introduced a feed-in-tariff system ...

In the US, Lux expects a solar building boom over the next few years as developers rush to get their projects in before a tax credit for photovoltaic systems falls from 30% to 10% at the end of 2016. The US should install 10,800 MW of solar in 2018, making it ...

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