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Obama pushes for wind power tax creditWashington (UPI) May 25, 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama urged Congress to extend the tax benefits key to the nation's wind power sector. Speaking Thursday in Newton, Iowa, from a manufacturing facility for TPI Composites, a global provider of wind turbine blades, Obama said: "If Congress doesn't act, companies like this one will take a hit. Jobs will be lost. That's not a guess. That's a fact." The production tax credit, scheduled to expire at the end of the year unless Congress extends it, gives an income tax cred ... read more |
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  Gas fracking boom in Michigan goes bust Concern over pollution and falling natural gas prices have slowed fracking-based drilling in Michigan, turning an expected boom into a bust, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 Turkey warns of faceoff over east Medgas Turkey says waters off the coast of war-divided Cyprus where Greek Cypriots plan to explore for natural gas lie within its continental shelf, sharpening multi-sided disputes over major fields under the eastern Mediterranean. ... more | .. |
  Spanish cash crunch threatens Catalonia Spain's growing difficulty with shoring up its debt-ridden banks faced a new setback Friday as an otherwise wealthy autonomous region of Catalonia joined the queue for an urgent bailout to help service its liabilities. ... 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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 Oil bonanza eludes Cuba after fresh tests Cuba is reportedly sitting on vast underwater oil and gas reserves, but none came up in the latest exploration, a joint Chinese-Spanish undertaking. ... more | .. |
  Yahoo! ditches digital newsstand for iPads Yahoo! shuttered its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads on Friday in what it said was the start of a product purge intended to make the floundering Internet pioneer more nimble. ... more | .. |
 Dish Network in US legal fight over ad-skipping Satellite television group Dish Network said Friday it went to court against the major US TV networks, aiming to defend against lawsuits from the broadcasters over its ad-skipping service. ... more | .. |
  Ferrari recalls 56 cars in China: state media Ferrari's reputation in China took another blow on Friday when the country's quality watchdog said the luxury sports car manufacturer would have to recall 56 imported vehicles because of a defect. ... more |
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Rivers choose their path based on erosion - a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration
Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic
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 US to welcome Philippine leader amid China tensions President Barack Obama will welcome Philippine President Benigno Aquino next month, the White House said Friday, as the United States steps up support to the ally locked in disputes with China. ... more | .. |
  Japan taps pop idols to sell bonds: reports Japan's cash-strapped government is turning to wildly popular music group AKB48 to help it sell government bonds, as interest in the low-yield paper wanes, reports said Friday. ... more | .. |
 China challenges US trade duties China signaled on Friday it will challenge anti-subsidy duties imposed by the United States on 22 products Washington deems to be unfairly subsidised by Beijing. ... more | .. |
  Critics pan Britain's draft energy bill The British government unveiled a draft energy bill this week critics say will raise prices and favors new gas-fired power plants over renewable sources. ... more |
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 New canal links S. Korea capital to Yellow Sea A $1.9 billion canal linking the South Korean capital Seoul to the Yellow Sea opened Friday after two decades of controversy which halted or delayed construction. ... more | .. |
  Shareholders vote to take China's Alibaba unit private Minority shareholders of Alibaba.com on Friday voted in favour of a proposal by its parent Alibaba Group Holding to take the Hong Kong-listed online trading unit private, the company said. ... more | .. |
 China welcomes resumption of Sudanese talks China Friday welcomed next week's resumption of talks between Sudan and South Sudan and urged both nations to cooperate with international efforts to resolve issues linked to the recent civil war. ... more | .. |
  Japan eyeing 15% nuclear in energy mix: minister Japan may look to generating 15 percent of its electricity needs from nuclear power, a minister said Friday, as the country seeks to rebalance its energy supply after the Fukushima disaster. ... more |
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New drop tests advance Space Rider precision landing system
Ancient river systems reveal Mars was wetter than we thought
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 7-inch Google tablet said imminent A 7-inch tablet computer is coming from Google and could hit the market in July, DigiTimes, a tech Web site based in Taiwan reports. ... more | .. |
 Goldman to plow $40 bn into green energy Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs plans to invest $40 billion into projects linked to renewable energy over the next decade, a company spokesman said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Kurds' oil deal with Turkey will hit Iraq Plans for Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish enclave to build an oil pipeline to Turkey points to a major political and economic realignment in the Middle East that will impact heavily on Iraq. ... more | .. |
Rebels threaten TVI mines in Philippines Communist rebels in the southern Philippines have threatened to attack mining companies, including Toronto Ventures Inc. operating in the Zamboanga Peninsula. ... more |
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 Bulgaria switches reactor back on grid after repairs Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant announced Thursday it had switched one of its reactors back on to the electricity grid, after a month of refuelling and repairs. ... more | .. |
 Google reveals copyrighted material claims Google on Thursday began revealing details about requests for links to be removed from Internet search results on the grounds they lead to copyrighted material posted without permission. ... more | .. |
 Oil prices rise on EU Greece support, Iran impasse Oil prices perked up Thursday after European leaders reaffirmed their desire to see Greece stay in the euro and Iran and world powers deadlocked in talks over its disputed nuclear program. ... more | .. |
 Rio Tinto chief dismisses China 'doom' Global mining giant Rio Tinto said Thursday it was not worried by talk of China's economy slowing and would press ahead with plans to expand its iron ore business, saying signs were robust on the ground. ... more |
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Russia fires 136 drones at Ukraine ahead of Trump-NATO head meeting
China says German plane laser claim 'inconsistent with facts'
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  China says US violates WTO on renewable energy China said Thursday that several US policies supporting the American renewable energy industries violate World Trade Organization rules. ... more | .. |
 Obama picks new US nuclear chief US President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated a new chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after the former head Gregory Jaczko resigned after months of personnel controversy. ... more | .. |
 Philippines 'lacks sincerity' in sea dispute: China China accused the Philippines Thursday of not being sincere in seeking a peaceful end to a standoff over disputed waters, ramping up the rhetoric one day after confirming the deployment of more ships. ... more | .. |
 Facebook makes mobile move after IPO flop Facebook released a "camera" application Thursday that lets people take Instagram-style pictures that can be shared with iPhones. ... more |
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 SEIA Seeks Mutually-Satisfactory Resolution of Growing US-China Solar Trade Conflict Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has released the following statement in the wake of the decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce to impose additio ... more | .. |
  Seagrasses Can Store as Much Carbon as Forests Seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate and tropical forests. So report resea ... more | .. |
  Sensing the infrared: Researchers improve IR detectors with single-walled carbon nanotubes Whether used in telescopes or optoelectronic communications, infrared detectors must be continuously cooled to avoid being overwhelmed by stray thermal radiation. Now, a team of researchers from Pek ... more | .. |
  Efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks Quantum technologies promise to redefine the landscape of information processing and communication. We already live in an information age, in which vast amounts of data are sent around the world ove ... more |
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