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Governor Ritter calls for new renewable energy portfolio standard
January 14, 2010 | State of Colorado
Increasing Colorado's Renewable Energy Standard to 30 percent by 2020 is one of Governor Ritter's top legislative priorities. Ritter and lawmakers doubled the state’s voter-approved RES in 2007. He says the 20-by-20 goal is within reach and it’s time to set our goals higher and continue creating tens of thousands of new jobs.

Delivering his fourth and final State of the State Address, Governor Ritter called on lawmakers today “to set aside the weaker impulses of partisanship” and remain focused on job creation,...

EPA to declare coal ash a hazardous waste
December 15, 2009 | Power Daily Northeast
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to declare that it intends to regulate coal combustion waste as a hazardous material, a regulatory shift that one industry official believes would have immense impacts on the nation's coal-fired generators.

Caryl Pfeiffer, director of corporate fuels and byproducts for E.ON
U.S., told attendees at a recent industry conference that she believed

The Copenhagen Diagnosis
November 24, 2009 | http://www.copenhagendiagnosis.com/
Global ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea-ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world’s top climate scientists.

In a special report called ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, the 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are...

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