Energy and Environment News Roundup – 9.18.12
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CLIMATE
June through August was warmest period ever recorded for global land temperature (via Climate Progress)
Extreme weather costs EU transport system at least $20 billion annually (via Green Car Congress)
El Salvador in battle against tide of climate change (via The Independent)
Avoiding dangerous climate change is still possible, but just barely (via Grist)
ENERGY POLICY
France taxing carbon emitters in effort to overhaul consumer energy costs (via Renewable Energy World)
Impact of budget sequestration on technology and innovation (via Innovation Files)
OIL
US lauds Saudi commitment to help moderate oil price (via Reuters)
RENEWABLES
Renewables eye 35% share of Japan’s post-nuclear mix (via Recharge)
India may launch anti-dumping probe on Chinese solar panels (via Panchabuta)
The economics of installing solar (via Wall Street Journal)
Vestas launches new variant of 3MW turbine (via Reuters)
What biofuel is best to move nations forward? (via Midwest Energy News)
Shortfall in funding for solar training (via Renewable Energy World)
Despite job fears, wind tax credit extension stalls (via Des Moines Register)
Floating US biofuels: should the Navy support a new industry? (via Renewable Energy World)
Insurance: the key to renewable energy success? (via SmartPlanet)
Developer combines geothermal, solar for near net-zero homes (via Sustainable Business)
Online resource lists brownfield sites ripe for clean energy development (via Sustainable Business)
ENVIRONMENT
Forest mortality in US declines as beetles run out of food (via Yale e360)
Richer communities get more funds from EPA to clean toxic brownfields (via NBC News)
EMISSIONS
Subsea ravine leaks at demonstration site complicate carbon capture and sequestration (via Reuters)
US underestimates costs of carbon pollution and climate change (via CleanTechnica)
Researchers unveil Facebook-inspired CO2 calculator (via BusinessGreen)
CLEAN TECH
Biomimicry could feed the hungry, reduce impact of technology (via Mother Nature Network)
Panasonic: smart homes are key to an energy-efficient Japan (via Greenbang)
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