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EPA Hearts Algae: Encouraged by recent interest in algae fuels by heavy hitters like ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical, the EPA is reportedly planning to count algae as an advanced biofuel under the Renewable Fuel Standard now in the works. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital India Set to […] Read more »

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The New Saudi Arabia: To replace the tired stock phrase, “the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy,” readers suggest: “the El Dorado of green energy,” and the Everlasting Gobstopper or Rush Limbaugh of wind. — NYT’s Green Inc. Obama Calls for U.S.-China Cooperation: President Obama kicked off […] Read more »

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What timing: The Department of Energy is ratcheting up efforts to enforce energy efficiency standards for appliances, and has just issued the first subpoena in its new crackdown — less than 24 hours after the agency’s inspector general reported the DOE has been failing, more often […] Read more »

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Photos: Tesla Roadster Sport: If you want an electric sports car and the Tesla Roadster isn’t fast or expensive enough for you, here’s what an extra $20,000 can get you. — Jalopnik Palin on Obama Energy Plan: Soon-to-be-ex governor of Alaska Sarah Palin says in an […] Read more »

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Meet the New GM, a company that’s supposed to be more nimble, innovative, and a heck of a lot more profitable than the old General Motors. The new company launched this morning as much of the automaker’s assets transferred over to a company now controlled by […] Read more »

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Smarter PC Power Management: A new webcam application called PecoBOO uses facial recognition — rather than mouse movements — to determine whether or not there is a user in front of the PC. If the user moves away, after 15 minutes, the computer goes into its […] Read more »

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For climate legislation, clearing the House last month by a slim seven-vote margin marked a major step toward passage of the first comprehensive regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. But as we wrote after the vote, it was only the beginning — with a […] Read more »

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Solyndra Snags $238M Umwelt Deal: Solyndra, which makes cylindrical, thin film photovoltaic systems, has won a supply deal with Germany-based solar integrator Umwelt-Sonne-Energie GmbH worth up to $238 million through 2013. — Press Release Tesla Overseas: Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the right-hand-drive electric Roadster will […] Read more »

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Updated: We’ve heard from a couple of our sources that President Obama is forming an advisory council on energy and economic policy that would be staffed by cleantech leaders, including the CEOs of some buzz-worthy startups along with some high-profile investors. Someone high up on Obama’s […] Read more »

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Obama on Climate Bill Opposition: “Are there going to be nay-sayers? Absolutely. Are there going to be short-term instances where you can get political gain by scaring the bejesus out of people and telling them that their electricity rates are going to go up a thousand […] Read more »

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Thriller Gets 28M Views Since Jackson’s Death; copies of the groundbreaking music video rack up the playcounts, according to Visible Measures. (company blog) Digital Media Sales Up Only 0.9% Year-Over-Year; but paid models doing better than advertising, according to Strategy Analytics. (release) Warner Bros. to Distribute […] Read more »

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The Obama administration turned the page on a new chapter for energy efficiency today, opening up $346 million in stimulus funds for “energy-efficient technologies in all major types of commercial buildings as well as new and existing homes,” and raising the bar on efficiency and conservation […] Read more »

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The energy bill passed the House on Friday, but the proposed cap and trade system and new incentives for renewable energy are still a long way from going into law as the Senate needs to pass its own version. As we transition to the next round […] Read more »

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Tucked into a military spending bill that just passed Congress and is now heading to President Barack Obama for signature is a piece of legislation meant to help get gas guzzlers off U.S. roads and replace them with new, more efficient vehicles. Called the Consumer Assistance […] Read more »

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Despite an incremental speed increase, the biggest update to the MacBook Air at WWDC was the price. The low-end model is now $1,499, down $300, while the high-end model with a solid-state drive now sells for $1,799, a jaw-dropping $700 price drop. Available in two models, […] Read more »

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Earlier this year while General Motors was submitting its restructuring plans and set to hear the first recommendations from President Barack Obama’s auto task force, the company’s much-hyped plug-in car, the Chevy Volt, was bound up in a waiting game that threatened to take down the […] Read more »

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Obama on Cybersecurity and the Smart Grid: The White House today published a road map for fixing U.S. cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and called for the U.S. to “implement, for high-value activities (e.g., the Smart Grid), an opt-in array of interoperable identity management systems to build trust for […] Read more »

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The Internet is important and we must protect it. That’s the gist behind the blog post laying out the reasons for creating the office of a national cybersecurity chief to oversee the security of our nation’s communications networks and electronic infrastructure. But securing the Internet for […] Read more »

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Supreme Court Pick’s Track Record: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion in Riverkeeper vs. EPA, siding with the fishes and against power companies in a big case that the Supreme Court just overturned. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital The State of State Energy Policies: As […] Read more »

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It’s no easy feat to win approval from the House Energy and Commerce Committee ahead of schedule. But that’s what the climate and energy bill, which if passed will create a cap-and-trade system for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and mandate increased reliance on renewable sources of […] Read more »

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The energy industry has had it up to here with delays in the Department of Energy loan guarantee program. Like Energy Secretary Steven Chu, they want to get money moving pronto. So this week groups representing solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydro and nuclear power companies sent […] Read more »

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The Obama administration is certain about a couple things in its plan for a new national fuel economy and tailpipe emission standard: It’s meant to start taking effect in 2012, and have automakers achieving a fleet average of 35.5 MPG by 2016, four years earlier than […] Read more »

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What Was Detroit Thinking?: After decades of battling, complaining and maneuvering over fuel economy standards, why did carmakers decide to fall in line with a tough, new nationwide MPG standard this week? — New York Times Climate Outlook Gets Gloomier: New climate modeling suggests that without […] Read more »

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Solar Swing and a Miss: JA Solar has reported a net loss of $23.3 million on $33 million in revenue for the first quarter of this year, missing analyst estimates “by a mile and a half.” — Business Insider’s Green Sheet A123Systems Update: Battery developer A123Systems […] Read more »

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Automakers received yet another push this morning to accelerate efforts to clean up their fleets, with the unveiling of tough, new limits for tailpipe emissions set to take effect in 2012. If the big automakers were interested in bringing startups with clean vehicle technology into the […] Read more »

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The Microsoft My Phone service is an online cloud backup and syncing service for Windows Mobile phones. My Phone keeps all contacts, calendars, text messages and other user information backed up to the cloud for easy syncing to new phones. The service has been in a […] Read more »

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What’s that ancient saying: Another day, another mobile VoIP client? That’s what it seems like these days, as everyone is creating, branding and selling mobile voice services over Wi-Fi. OK, the carriers are a notable exception to this group, but that’s sure to change over time. […] Read more »

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When General Motors decided on a supplier for the lithium ion cells in the battery packs for its upcoming Chevy Volt, frontman Bob Lutz explained that the risks involved with working with a startup helped tip the balance in favor of South Korea-based LG Chem. Referring to […] Read more »

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For plug-in car and battery makers, there’s a lesson in the Obama administration’s recent decision to pull funding for research of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles: Don’t rely too heavily on the dole for too long. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, you may recall, formed a cornerstone […] Read more »

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A “discussion draft” is what Reps. Henry Waxman and Ed Markey called their initial proposal for a climate and energy bill last month. And the discussion has been heating up ever since, fueled in part by multimillion-dollar lobbying efforts. The U.S. oil, gas and coal industry […] Read more »

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When the economy hands out lemons, Coulomb Technologies expects to make lemonade — at least, if policy continues to swing in its favor. While the electric vehicle infrastructure startup has opted out of applying directly for stimulus funds, it is seeing new opportunities arise as the […] Read more »

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Uncle Sam, Hybrid Car Salesman: Soon the Obama administration and whoever is running GM and Chrysler will have to confront the challenge of how to sell the cars they want America to buy, given that demand for hybrid sales has plummeted. — Wall Street Journal Gaga […] Read more »

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EPA Ethanol Rule on the Way: The U.S. EPA is slated to release a draft of the updated Renewable Fuels Standard this week that will set the course for how emissions from biofuels production and use are measured — and test the Obama administration’s approach to […] Read more »

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There’s a huge amount of interesting conversation happening all the time on Twitter, about your company, your project, and countless other things in which you’re interested. But keeping track of all those conversations is hard. That’s where free web app TweetGrid comes in. It enables you […] Read more »

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Tesla Model S Test Drive: The first person outside of the company to drive Tesla’s Model S concept car says the vehicle is “just barely ambulatory — more like a glorified golf cart than a harbinger of tomorrow tech.” — LA Times Segway Maker’s Next Step: […] Read more »

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