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EU sets CO2 limit for airlinesBrussels (UPI) Mar 9, 2011 The aviation industry, which is scheduled to enter the EU Emissions Trading Scheme next year, will have to work with a carbon dioxide limit of 213 million metric tons, the European Commission said this week. Brussels with the cap, which will drop to 208.5 million tons of CO2 per year in 2013, aims to fight global warming at a time when the aviation industry is booming. It will affect all flights to and from the 27-member bloc's airports. The limits are based on a benchmark of 220 million tons t ... read more |
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  Rare earths to be refined in Malaysia Australian mining company Lynas Corp. is building a $230 million rare earth refinery in Malaysia, the first processing plant to be built outside of China in nearly three decades, The New York Times reports. ... more | .. |
  U.K. mulls new de-mining in Falklands British and Falkland Islands governments are considering a multimillion-dollar plan to resume clearance of land mines from the 1982 conflict with Argentina. ... more | .. |
  Stream Energy Announces Expansion Into Maryland Electricity Market Stream Energy, the world's largest network marketer of energy, announced it is initiating operations in the Maryland electricity market, its fourth market in an ambitious expansion plan. The announc ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  American Electric Technologies Announces Deployment With Emergya Wind Technologies American Electric Technologies and Emergya Wind Technologies (EWT) have announced AETI's direct-drive wind converter and its successful deployment for Emergya Wind Technologies in multiple locations ... more | .. |
 Energy Focus Lights Up US Navy Ships And Submarines Energy Focus has announced that it is now supplying four families of fixtures incorporating LED Solid State Lighting (SSL) to U.S. Navy ships and submarines. The products being supplied were develop ... more | .. |
  Ultrafast Laser 'Scribing' Technique Cuts Cost And Improves Efficiency Of Solar Cells Researchers are developing a technology that aims to help make solar cells more affordable and efficient by using a new manufacturing method that employs an ultrafast pulsing laser. The innova ... more | .. |
 Hayward And REC Solar Unveil 1MW Solar System The City of Hayward adopted a Climate Action Plan in July 2009 as a roadmap for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the City Council has implemented green building standards, environmenta ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
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 SunPower Signs 48MW Solar Power Supply Agreement With Toshiba SunPower has announced that, under a strategic supply agreement, Toshiba will order 48 megawatts of high-efficiency solar panels from SunPower during the 2011 Japanese fiscal year ending March 31, 2 ... more | .. |
 Solar Rainbow To Install 1MW System On Omni Holdings Complex Solar Bawabeh, president and co-founder of Solar Rainbow Services has announced that they will be installing a 1 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic system over a total of 120,000 square feet for Omni ... more | .. |
 Tokyo, Manila protest Chinese harassment Tensions rose between China and its China Sea neighbors Japan and the Philippines after Chinese aircraft and patrol boats harassed the other countries' military and exploration vessels. ... more | .. |
 EADS returns to profit on jet sales European defense giant European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. returned to profit in 2010 on strong jet sales at its subsidiary Airbus, reinstating a dividend and forecasting even greater sales in the year ahead. ... more |
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Concerns Iran will hit gulf oil output There are growing concerns that Iran is seeking to exploit the political turmoil swirling through the Arab world. ... more | .. |
  Australia set for uranium talks with UAE Australia said Wednesday it will soon begin talks with the United Arab Emirates to pave the way for uranium sales to the Gulf federation as it builds its civil nuclear power industry. ... more | .. |
  Informer in Renault spy case was paid: lawyer An informer behind allegations of spying on French car maker Renault that fizzled out for lack of evidence was paid a quarter of a million euros, the company's lawyer said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Cathay Pacific orders 27 Airbus and Boeing planes Cathay Pacific said Wednesday that it has ordered 27 planes from Airbus and Boeing in a deal worth as much as $6.55 billion, as the carrier reported a record profit for 2010. ... more |
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Space Force taps five firms to develop secure global tactical satcom solutions
SES Secures 5 Year Army Contract for Global Tactical Satellite Communications
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  Online travel sites seek to ground Google-ITA deal When Google and Yahoo! forged an advertising pact in 2008, Thomas Barnett headed the anti-trust division of the US Department of Justice, which stepped in and torpedoed the deal. ... more | .. |
 Indian state challenges govt over Vedanta mine The Indian state of Orissa has filed a Supreme Court case challenging the national government's decision to block Vedanta Resources' plan to mine bauxite in the region. ... more | .. |
 Under US, Asia-Pacific to focus on green trade The United States, taking the helm of the APEC forum, hopes to spur green growth in the Asia-Pacific region by knocking down trade barriers on environmental goods, a senior official said. ... more | .. |
 Duke Energy CEO Calls for Purpose-Driven Capitalism "Our greatest competition isn't inside North Carolina. Our biggest competitors aren't the companies and states in the South, or the East or West Coasts. Our competition is global, and that's true wh ... more |
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 Berkeley Highlights Challenges Meeting 2050 Energy Goals California is showing the way for the rest of the nation in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, having set an ambitious goal to reduce these emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by the ... more | .. |
 Under US, Asia-Pacific to focus on green trade The United States, taking the helm of the APEC forum, hopes to spur green growth in the Asia-Pacific region by knocking down trade barriers on environmental goods, a senior official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Westinghouse And Endesa Sign Agreement On AP1000 Technology Westinghouse Electric has announced that it has signed an agreement with Endesa to share information on the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear energy technology. The agreement is aimed at providing Endesa ... more | .. |
 Athabasca Uranium Completes Z-TEM Survey, Gears Up For Ground Work Athabasca Uranium is pleased to announce the completion of Phase One of its multi-phase exploration program on its East Key Lake, McGregor Lake, Webb River and McCarthy Lake uranium projects, locate ... more |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
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 China's State Nuclear Power Technology Selects Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise The Chinese State Nuclear Power Technology has selected Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise solutions to increase productivity and safety and to accelerate project schedules for the engineering, 3D des ... more | .. |
 SPX To Supply Key Components For NPP In Germany SPX has released additional details regarding its Thermal Equipment and Services segment entry into a $20 million contract to replace moisture separator reheaters (MSRs) for Biblis nuclear power pla ... more | .. |
 Pike Awarded EPC Transmission Project For SCANA Pike Electric has announced that SCANA Corporation has awarded Pike an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for approximately 250 miles of new 230kV transmission lines associate ... more | .. |
 Global Witness wary over China, DR.Congo deal Global Witness Tuesday criticised as opaque a $6 billion infrastructure-for-mining deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and China, saying it could not be monitored. ... more |
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 GE hopes new acquisition helps Brazil bid Energy giant GE has set sights on acquiring new business in Brazil's subsea drilling for oil and natural gas with its $1.3 billion acquisition of Wellstream, a producer of deep-water exploration and production equipment. ... more | .. |
 Western China the 'Middle East' for coal? Western China's vast coal reserves could make it the "new Middle East," a top coal industry official said. ... more | .. |
 N. Korea seeks to sell global carbon credits North Korea is hoping to sell UN-backed carbon credits from hydropower plants now being built, an aid group said Tuesday, as the isolated communist state struggles to secure more sources of hard cash. ... more | .. |
  BESC Scores A First With Isobutanol Directly From Cellulose In the quest for inexpensive biofuels, cellulose proved no match for a bioprocessing strategy and genetically engineered microbe developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Scie ... more |
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