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'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Green News Report, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Dow Chemical, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Ice Melt, Wind Energy, Roundup, Antarctica, David Cameron, Exxonmobil, Factory Farms, Clean Energy, Herbicides, Pollution, Coal, Monsanto, Drought, Nuclear, Stephen Chu, Britain, Sea Level Rise; Chernobyl, Iea, Corn, Oil Profits, Agent Orange, Toxic Chemicals, Donald Trump, Wildfires, International Energy Agency, Ice Sheets, Jimmy Fallon, Slow Jam the News, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Just a fl...

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Obama Ready To Release Oil From Petroleum Reserve

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Energy Reserves, Libya, Stephen Chu, Oil Supply, President Barack Obama, Oil, Oil Reserves, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Wary of a new surge in gas prices, the Obama administration said Thursday it is selling off 30 million barrels of oil from the coun...

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Chu: Will America Miss Its "Sputnik Moment" on Energy?

David Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Chu, Obama Cleantech Strategy, Doe, US China Competition, Cleantech, Sputnik Moment, 1957, Arpa-E, Energy Department, President Obama, R&D, Energy Secretary, China, National Press Club, Green News

America is at a "Sputnik moment," Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said today. The government's next moves will determine whether the country leads the clean-tech race -- or loses it to China.

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Green News Report: July 29, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmon, Lithium-Ion Battery, Cap and Trade, Chevy Volt, Oil Spill Response, Wind Energy, Sustainable Food, Epa, Green News Report, Pollution, China, Canada, Tar Sands, Stephen Chu, General Motors, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Electric Cars, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Department of Energy, Global Warming Deniers, Michigan, Global Warming, Bp, Factory Farming, Wild Salmon, Alternative Energy, Nissan Leaf, Energy Efficiency, Senate, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Ocean Acidification, Wildfires, Climate Legislation, Moscow, Oceans, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Clean Energy Legislation, Green News

a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=324031097"> TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on y...

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Causes and Consequences of the BP Oil Catastrophe: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Will Never Know

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Halliburton, Bp, British Petroleum, Dr. Charles Perrow, Barack Obama, Gulf Oil Spill Illness, Transocean, Stephen Chu, Gulf Oil Spill, Carol Browner, Gulf Oil Spill Health, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Green News, Chemical Dispersants, Bp Executives, Oil Health Problems, Oil Toxicity, Green News

There is one, and only one, way to ensure that deep water oil drilling never again leads to catastrophe, and that is to discontinue all deep water oil drilling. Period.

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"Clunker Cash" That Makes Sense For New York

Scott Stringer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Cash for Clunker, Department of Energy, Car Allowance Rebate System Act, Stephen Chu, New York City, Cash for Clunkers, New York Cash for Clunkers, Energy Star, Cars, New York News

For the 77% of Manhattan households who do not have a car, the picture is clear: By limiting the clunkers program to automobiles, urban consumers have been left out of the recovery picture.

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Natural Gas Takes Center Stage in Las Vegas

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roger Staubach, Bill Clinton, T. Boone Pickens, Stephen Chu, Hilda Solis, John Woolard, Denise Bode, Al Gore Nobel Prize, Stephanie Burns, NAT GAS Act, Harry Reid, Wesley Clark, Green News

We are all singing from the same songbook. America has more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil. But we've got to put it to work for us.

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Green News Report - July 30, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Electric Vehicles, Green News Report, Tar Sands, Stephen Chu, Ocean Dead Zones, Green News, Cash for Clunkers, Oil Prices, Composting, Sustainability, Climate Change, Sustainable Seafood, China, Solar Power, Cool-Roofs, Green News

In today's audio report: China & the U.S., together again

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Green News Report - May 28, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Bpa, Stephen Chu, Carbon Emissions, Sonia Sotomayor, Green News, Climate Change, Green News Report, Fda, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: How 'green' is Sotomayor?; Bush and the baby bottles; PLUS: White is the new green! For roofs, that is .... All that and mor...

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Facts Are Stubborn Things: George Will and Climate Change-

Sen. John Kerry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Chu, Washington Post, John Holdren, George Will, John Kerry, Global Warming, Green, Ronald Reagan, George Will Global Warming, China, Green News

This has to stop. A highly organized, well-funded movement to deny the reality of global climate change has been up and running for a long time, but it doesn't change the verdict: the problem is real, it's accelerating, and we have to act.

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Come Home, Dick Durbin: Come Clean on FutureGen

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Coal, President Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, Stephen Chu, Peabody Energy, Green Energy, Clean Coal, Futuregen, Energy, Dick Durbin FutureGen, Futuregen Stimulus Bill, Chicago News

As the nation comes to grips with the need to shift our focus to non-fossil fuel sources of energy, it is disappointing to see Sen. Durbin turn into a cheerleader for the "Dirtiest Wing" of the coal industry.

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Dear Obama and Gov. Manchin: Act on Coal River Crisis

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, Coal, Carol Browner, Renewable Energy, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Mountaintop Removal, Black History Month, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Civil Disobedience, Barack Obama, Wind Energy, Joe Manchin, Epa, Lisa Jackson, Green News

The mechanization of above-ground mountaintop removal has prevented a diverse economy and led to a decrease in coal mining jobs in some of the highest poverty stricken strip-mining areas.

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Big Coal Gift in Senate Stimulus Package While Coal Profits Soar

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Stimulus Package, Stephen Chu, Clean Coal, Senate, Barack Obama, Wind Energy, Futuregen, Green News

There's a new detail on this "clean coal" money: $2 billion are no longer slated for zero emissions plants, but "near-zero emissions" plants -- so much for all of those ads about zero emissions.

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NOVA's "The Big Energy Gamble": The Challenge of Climate Narratives

Ben Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Max Boykoff, Van Jones, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming Solutions Act, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, AB 32, Obama Environment, Stephen Chu, Andy Revkin, Joe Romm, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Environment, Climate Change, Chuck DeVore, Nova, Global Warming, Wgbh, Green News

This is the problem of narrating climate change: it lacks the natural elements that make for a gripping story. Our earth's climate is a reality unfit for reality TV.

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Ash Christmas: Yesterday's TVA Coal Disaster is Toxic Wake Up Call to Nation

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Carol Browner, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Environment, Stephen Chu, Coal Ash, Cancer, TVA Disaster, Barack Obama, Green News

Coal ash contains mercury, lead, and arsenic. Nearly 800 Olympic-size swimming pools of that toxic mix are flowing into the waterways of Tennessee right now.

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Dear Carol Browner: Dirty Coal Will Turn Green Recovery Gray

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Climate Destabilization, Clean Coal, Green Recovery, Futuregen, Green News

The incoming Secretary of Energy will have the choice of committing billions of dollars to relaunch the shipwrecked FutureGen coal-fired plant, or allocating that amount of funding to launch a sustainable wind or solar clean jobs project in the same Illinois area.

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Steven Chu: Physicists Cheer New Energy Secretary

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chu Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu, Steven Chu Physics, Steven Chu, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Steven Chu, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, Obama Cabinet, Steven Chu Global Warming, Steve Chu, Steven Chu Energy, Politics News

Science Insider reports on the major shift that will occur at the Department of Energy when Steven Chu takes over: Steve Chu could be a groundbreaki...

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This Just In: Adults Put Back in Charge at DOE

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

For the past eight years our energy and environmental policies have been run by children. All of that is set to change with the welcome news of Obama's apparent new Energy Secretary, Steven Chu.

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Steven Chu, Energy Secretary? (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Physicist Steven Chu will reportedly be named President-elect Barack Obama's Energy Secretary: Democratic officials close to the transition team say...

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