US, India Pledge $100 million for Clean Energy Research
The two countries have announced funding for US-India Clean Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Centre aimed at R&D in building efficiency, second generation biofuels and solar energy.
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World Water Day: 60 Posts on Water & Cleantech
Today is world water day. We’ve written quite a number of posts on different ways water is connected to cleantech and clean energy. Rather than write a whole new post on one or two aspects of this, I’ve decided to do a compilation piece. The following are articles on CleanTechnica (and a few from our sister site Planetsave) on some of the connections between cleantech and water.
Full Cost of Coal $500 Billion/Year in U.S., Harvard Study Finds
Well, it doesn’t seem like Harvard Medical School will be getting any donations from the fossil fuel industry any time soon. A new study that is soon to be released and published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences authored by Dr. Paul Epstein, the Director of … [continued]
People Have Positive View of Solar and Wind Energy
We’ve seen a number of polls showing that people like solar and wind energy, but here’s one more, which includes a few other interesting findings. A new poll by Pike Research has found that solar and wind were the most favorably-viewed concepts of a list of various energy and environment … [continued]
Cleantech News Link Drop
I decided to leave last week’s roundup of cleantech (or related) news that we didn’t already cover on Cleantechnica to today (for various reasons). So, now, here’s the roundup. China’s High-Speed Trains [VIDEOS] Why fly when you can travel the 1000km between Guangzhou (Canton) near Hong Kong to Wuhan – … [continued]
Clean Coal: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
The Pennsylvania DEP has just come out with a new report that should help put the “clean coal” myth to rest once and for all. According to the report, the subsidence caused by underground coal mining has impacted hundreds of buildings, springs, wells and ponds across ten counties in southwestern … [continued]
American Power Act = More Jobs
[social_buttons] Republicans opposed to clean energy in the US (who knows why?) have repeatedly put forward the idea (and claimed it was absolutely true) that a climate change and clean energy bill would cost the US jobs. A new non-partisan report out by the Peterson Institute for International Economics finds … [continued]
"Clean Coal" Looking More Like a 21st Century Dinosaur
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seems to be making up for lost time when it comes to enforcing the Clean Water Act. That includes closing the door on mountaintop coal mining, also known rather delicately as mountaintop removal. In reality there is nothing delicate about it. The practice involves blowing … [continued]
How Dirty Industries in EU Nations Created China's 21st Century Clean Energy Boom
As California moves to implement cap and trade to reduce harmful greenhouse gases, the UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy and the Environment has published a new study designed to help lawmakers in California fine-tune the legislation. [social_buttons] As with the studies by the German Marshall Fund with its Ten … [continued]
Reuters: Cap and Trade Worked in EU
It’s official. The EU trading system got carbon emissions down. It’s one thing when renewable energy writers on blogs like this say cap and trade has transformed Europe. [social_buttons] We regularly cover the huge wind and solar industries created there – the results of Europe’s early adoption of the Kyoto … [continued]
