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Consent Decree Forces Regs on Selected Gas and Diesel Engines [1]

Restrictions would be placed on many types of stationary diesel and gas-fired engines under a proposed EPA rule.
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TipSheet [2]
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Air [3]
Chemicals [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Government [8]
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National (U.S.) [9]
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New Science Reports on Climate Change and Energy [11]

Watch for the National Academies to release more climate change and energy reports this month, on alternative liquid transportation fuels, energy efficiency, renewables and economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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National (U.S.) [9]
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Transmission Superhighway May Carry Coal Power to Northeast [14]

SolveClimate founder David Sassoon explains March 24, 2009, how energy policies and East-West differences in power transmission needs are quietly leaving the door open for the cheapest, dirtiest coal power to flood the Northeast under plans for what is intended to be a green transmission superhighway.
Author contact information: David Sassoon
03/25/2009
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"Some See Daylight at Last for U.S. Feed-In Tariffs" [15]

"With Congress and President Obama championing green energy, the solar industry sees an opening to pursue a goal it long considered unattainable: European-style subsidies for sun-generated power. The national trade group for solar manufacturers is discussing whether it should push for a national feed-in tariff, a funding mechanism that forces utilities to buy green power at premium prices. Popular in Germany and Spain, feed-in tariffs have gained little traction in the United States. But that is changing.

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Source: Greenwire [16], 03/25/2009

EPA Considers Raising Ethanol Content of Gasoline [17]

On March 6 a coalition of major ethanol producers (Growth Energy) formally requested that EPA raise the cap on the amount of ethanol that can be blended into US gasoline. EPA has 270 days to respond.
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TipSheet [2]
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Energy & Fuel [5]
Government [8]
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Feds Revising Bush Offshore Energy Development Plan [18]

After years of effort, and despite a last-minute gambit by the outgoing President Bush, US policy for offshore energy development is going back to the drawing board. DOI is extending by six months the public comment period on the country's 5-year plan.
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Energy & Fuel [5]
Water & Oceans [19]
Government [8]
Policy [20]
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National (U.S.) [9]
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New Tool Available For Localizing Coal Ash Controversy [21]

A new map and report by the Center for Public Integrity make it easier to pinpoint exact locations of coal-ash deposits, a waste product of coal-fired power plants.
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Disasters [22]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Pollution [7]
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National (U.S.) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
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Sierra Club/Clean Energy [24]

Sierra Club [25]
Sierra is perhaps the largest and most politically active of U.S. membership-based environmental groups. Their long-established climate change program is focused on grass-roots organizing and policy advocacy. Wikipedia [26]. Press Contact [27].

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Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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Public Comment Open for Renewable Energy Zones [28]

The Western Governors' Association and the US DOE begin Phase 1 of a 4-phase process, with initial designation of suitable zones for renewable power generation in the western US, Canada, and Mexico.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
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Planning & Growth [29]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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International [30]
National (U.S.) [9]
Northwest (OR WA) [31]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [32]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [33]
California [34]
Mexico [35]
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Cement Kiln Rule Proposal Possible in March [36]

EPA proposes a new rule addressing emissions of toxic chemicals from kilns that are fueled by coal or other typical fuels, or allegedly nonhazardous waste. You'll find this, as well as other environmental story ideas, in the latest issue of TipSheet.
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Air [3]
Chemicals [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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