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Obama Pumps Plan to Develop Renewable Energy

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources. "That's the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil" in the long term, he said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. Obama raises the...

Obama: Shift From Imported Oil, New Jobs Will Come

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says shifting the U.S. away from imported oil and toward cleaner forms of energy will add momentum to a trend that has led to 1.8 million new jobs in the past 13 months. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to promote his ideas for bringing down gasoline prices by...

Opinion: There's No Silver Bullet for High Gas Prices

American motorists can't be blamed for viewing the current jump in gasoline prices as a potential precursor to even bigger problems down the road. Major oil disruptions in the Middle East have historically led to higher inflation, unsustainable negative balances of trade and recessions -- all in addition to the aggravation...

Opinion: 2 Ways to Win the Future

When the latest job numbers came out, they continued to deliver bad news. Just 36,000 jobs were added last month, far short of what analysts predicted. Fortunately, the president has finally -- and wisely -- shifted his focus away from the issues that sent his party plummeting in the polls and put it back where it...

New Drilling Banned in Eastern Gulf, Atlantic Coast

WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- The Obama administration announced today that the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has prompted it to scuttle plans to open waters off Florida and along the Atlantic coast to offshore oil and gas drilling for at least seven years. The change, detailed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in a...

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Vivian Norris: Germany's Solar Success and Fukushima's Crisis: Intelligent Energy Priorities

Last weekend, events took place which should make us think about the future of energy on this planet.

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A Big Week for Public Health, Grassroots Activism

This has been a big week for clean air, public health, and grassroots activism that is moving America beyond coal.

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Snyder Not Convinced By Renewable Energy Plan

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is far from energized about a proposed ballot measure that would obligate the state's utilities to generate 25 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2025.

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J. Mijin Cha: Stopping Renewable Energy From Going the "Dirty" Path

One of the main benefits of renewable energy is that we can meet our energy demands in a way that is more environmentally sustainable and through a medium that has a seemingly infinite supply.

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Norway: The Oil State

Welcome to Norway, home to a proud people who enjoy telling the myth about how they cheated their rival and neighbor Denmark by, despite owning very little of the North Sea oil, getting the then-Danish minister drunk on Norwegian snaps and signing the majority over to them.

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06/02/12 Greener U.S. Navy dealt a setback Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee WI The U.S. Navy's energy security plan for a greener fleet that relies less on imported oil and more on domestic renewable biofuels has been dealt a setback in Congress, as Republican senators voiced concern about the price of biofuels not being competitive with petroleum.
06/02/12 China set to take on BP's energy deal with Russia Source: The Money Blog - This is Money - UK Energy-hungry China is poised to bid for a huge chunk of Britain's interests in oil and nuclear power.
06/02/12 Stuart Loving's hunger strikes against fossil fuels... Source: Anorak News IN 2007, Start Loving, formerly Jay McGinley, sat outside the Sudan embassy in Washington and refused to eat until the war in Darfur ended.
06/02/12 Jordan finalises deal for first oil shale plant Source: Jordan Times Jordan has reached an agreement for the country's first oil shale-fired power plant in what energy officials are calling a "milestone" in the country's drive for energy independence.
06/02/12 Major energy monitoring entities, including the US ... Source: Peak Oil Major energy monitoring entities, including the US EIA and the OECD group's energy watchdog the IEA are forced to report that for the developed nation OECD group, and increasingly even for energy outlooks in Emerging economy giants China and India, energy demand is stagnant or falling.

Background on energy development

Energy development is the effort to provide sufficient primary energy sources and secondary energy forms for supply, cost, impact on air pollution and water pollution, mitigation of climate change with renewable energy.

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