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		<title>EU Braces for Rumble with Russia Over Climate and Energy At Summit Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Climate change and energy will be a top priority for negotiators at next week&#8217;s EU-Russia summit in Stockholm, according to Swedish Europe Minister Cecilia Malmstrom.
&#8220;We need Russia if...<br/>
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		<title>World Needs New Sources of Natural Gas – Lots of Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The world needs to find and bring online more than 4 times the annual amount of natural gas currently capable of being produced in Russia – or, an additional 2,700 billion cubic meters of natural...<br/>
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		<title>Beacon Power Brings FlyWheel to The Grid</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/11/beacon-power-brings-flywheel-to-the-grid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Beacon Power (Nasdaq: BCON), a Massachusetts-based company focused on deploying flywheel energy storage technologies for enhancing the grid&#8217;s frequency regulation services, will begin...<br/>
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		<title>U.S. Export-Import Bank Imposes Carbon Policy</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/11/u-s-export-import-bank-imposes-carbon-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Export-Import Bank of the United States, which provides direct financing and loan guarantees to support United States exports, has adopted a first-of-its-kind carbon policy for selecting which...<br/>
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		<title>Senator Stabenow Backs Domestic Market for Carbon Offsets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced the Clean Energy Partnership Act (S. 2729), which would create a domestic offsets program within a cap-and-trade bill and provide a number of...<br/>
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		<title>Artificial Leaf May Lead to Solar-Based Liquid Fuels</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/11/4849/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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Imagine &#8220;artificial leaves&#8221; that replicate a real leaf&#8217;s chemical magic by carrying out photosynthesis in a fashion that converts sunlight and water into liquid fuels like...<br/>
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		<title>How ‘Smart’ Is the Smart Grid? Maybe Not So Much</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/11/how-smart-is-the-smart-grid-maybe-not-so-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In July,  Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, testified on cybersecurity and the U.S. power gird before the U.S. House of...<br/>
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		<title>Venture Capital Investments in Cleantech</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/11/venture-capital-investments-in-cleantech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cleantech]]></category>
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		<title>Congress Contemplates Geoengineering Proposals</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/11/congress-contemplates-geoengineering-proposals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A small group of highly-respected climate-change and Earth systems scientists testified before the U.S. House of Representatives today in a hearing titled the hearing titled &#8220;Geoengineering:...<br/>
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		<title>Briefing on U.S.-EU Energy Council – Talking Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Richard Morningstar
Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy
November 4, 2009
 OPERATOR: Welcome, and thank you for standing by. We’d like to inform all participants your lines are in a listen-only mode....<br/>
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		<title>Senate Committee Passes Historic Climate Legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, S. 1733, a historic action that will help strengthen the economy, increase America&#8217;s...<br/>
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		<title>Biological Batteries – Synthetic Cells Unlock Energy Storage Secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By making synthetic cells that include just a few chemical processes, researchers can study cellular machinery one manageable piece at a time, according to a new paper from researchers at Yale...<br/>
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		<title>US Chamber of Commerce Capitulating on Climate Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Efficiency Costs of AutoRoids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If weight and horsepower remained at their 1980 levels, fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks in the United States would have increased by nearly 50 percent from 1980 to 2006. ...<br/>
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		<title>‘Cow Tax’ Amendment in Climate Bill Stokes Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Representatives of the Senate and the House engaged in conference negotiations on the appropriations bill funding the EPA for FY 2010 approved an amendment that would prohibit the EPA from requiring...<br/>
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		<title>Military Advisory Council Warns of Climate-Change’s Security Risks, Calls for Reduced “Bootprint”</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/11/military-advisory-council-warns-of-climate-changes-security-risks-calls-for-reduced-bootprint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Statement Issued by CCTM Military Advisory Council and Institute for Environmental Security:
The Military Advisory Council of the Climate Change and the Military project, having met in Brussels and...<br/>
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		<enclosure url="http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/MAC-Statement_1-2.pdf" length="441879" type="application/pdf" /><media:content url="http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/MAC-Statement_1-2.pdf" fileSize="441879" type="application/pdf" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Statement Issued by CCTM Military Advisory Council and Institute for Environmental Security: The Military Advisory Council of the Climate Change and the Military project, having met in Brussels and Bonn from 7th to 12th October 2009 to assess developments</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Statement Issued by CCTM Military Advisory Council and Institute for Environmental Security: The Military Advisory Council of the Climate Change and the Military project, having met in Brussels and Bonn from 7th to 12th October 2009 to assess developments and challenges related to climate change and security, offer the following views to the Parties and Governments [...]</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Climate-Change</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>CleanTech Goes to Washington, VC Leader Testifies Before Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Statement of Stephan Dolezalek 
VantagePoint Venture Partners, CleanTech Group Leader
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works 
Legislative Hearing on S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American...<br/>
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		<title>EPA Told To Relocate Entire Population of Town in Kansas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Congress has allocated funding for relocating the entire  population of the town of Treece, Kansas, according to the Wichita Eagle. Ensconced in the the state&#8217;s southeastern corner, Treece is...<br/>
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		<title>Plastic Bottle Recycling Reaches Record High</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/10/4783/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Plastic bottle recycling by consumers climbed by 3.2 percent in 2008 to a record high of more than 2.4 billion pounds, according to figures released jointly today by the American Chemistry Council...<br/>
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		<title>EPA Orders Review of Pesticides Impact on Endocrine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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		<title>World Bank Releases Disaster Risk-Reduction Platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The World Bank launched the &#8220;MultiCat Program,&#8221; a catastrophe bond issuance platform, so tha governments and other public entities will have access to international capital markets to...<br/>
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		<title>Energy-Efficiency News RoundUp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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		<title>Sen. Inhofe’s Statement on Proposed Climate Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
&#8220;We are here today to discuss a...<br/>
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		<title>31 of 34 the U.S. Military’s Most Critical Defense Assets May Not Operate During Commercial Power-Grid Outage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Defense&#8217;s most critical assets are vulnerable to disruptions in electrical power supplies and the DOD doesn&#8217;t even have the wherewithal to assess adequately the...<br/>
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		<title>U.S. Scales Funding for Climate-Change Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Department of Energy requests $165 million for climate science and more  than $1 billion for climate change technology R&#38;D intended to increase  renewable energy generation, advance energy...<br/>
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		<title>U.S. Court Reinstates Class Action Connecting Hurricane Katrina and Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/10/u-s-court-reinstates-class-action-connecting-hurricane-katrina-and-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a class action lawsuit &#8212; Comer et al., v. Murphy Oil USA et al. &#8211; against companies in the fossil-fuels and chemicals industries seeking...<br/>
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		<title>Senate Cap and Trade Bill Would Allocate Free Allowances</title>
		<link>http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/2009/10/senate-climate-bill-mirrors-house-bill-on-free-allowances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate released a revised version of a climate change bill late last Friday that largely tracks the free emission allowance allocations under legislation approved in late June by the House...<br/>
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		<title>America’s Most Energy-Efficient States</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Energy efficiency has achieved an unprecedented level of recognition in the United States over the past year.  The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recently released the 2009...<br/>
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		<title>Is It Too Late To Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A recent lecture by Clive Hamilton at the Royal Society of the Arts laid out the latest scientific understanding of the task humanity faces to avoid catastrophic climate change.  And the prognosis is...<br/>
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		<title>Solar Energy News Snapshot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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		<title>Energy-Efficiency News Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[EU to develop indicators for eco-efficient economy (EurActiv, 21 October 2009)
EU Environment ministers have asked the European Commission to develop &#8220;robust, reliable and widely recognised...<br/>
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		<title>Fewer Americans Worried About Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The percentage of Americans who believe global temperatures are rising fell sharply over the past year, according to the latest national survey by the Pew Center for People and the Press.  Still more...<br/>
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		<title>Wind Power Boom Surviving Downturn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pentland</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The U.S. wind energy industry installed 1,649 megawatts of new power generating capacity in the third quarter, according to the American Wind Energy Association&#8217;s third quarter market report....<br/>
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