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Bill McKibben talks climate change on Letterman’s ‘Late Show’

Midwest Energy News - 1 hour 40 min ago
Climate activist Bill McKibben spoke to David Letterman about his new book, Eaarth, and what it will take to get us on a road to a low carbon economy.
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More than 1,000 barrels spill from North Dakota oil well

Midwest Energy News - 2 hours 11 min ago
North Dakota officials are working to plug a leaking well that began oozing hundreds of barrels of oil Wednesday when its steel and concrete linings failed, officials said.
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Illinois regulators slam Tenaska ‘clean coal’ project

Midwest Energy News - 4 hours 6 min ago
The Illinois Commerce Commission concluded that the Taylorville "clean coal" plant's uncertain benefits don't justify its high costs, which would be borne by utility ratepayers and businesses statewide.
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Enbridge announces improvements to pipeline under Lake Michigan

Midwest Energy News - 4 hours 29 min ago
The company responsible for a pipeline rupture and oil spill earlier this summer plans up to a month of drilling beneath the Straits of Mackinac to reinforce twin crude oil pipelines that cross there.
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Michigan town to appeal decision blocking coal plant expansion

Midwest Energy News - 4 hours 41 min ago
"If we don't fight this, we have lost all possibility of ever producing power here again," said Holland city councilman Mike Trethewey.
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Federal funding denied for Minnesota town’s Personal Rapid Transit experiment

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 8:59am
The city of Winona applied for $25 million to build a test lab for Personal Rapid Transit, which uses small, pod-like vehicles on guideways to shuttle passengers to their destinations.
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Concerns mount over safety of underground oil pipelines

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 8:37am
When federal regulators learned last year that a Houston company built pipelines using defective steel, they ordered hundreds of sections of the newly laid pipe replaced. Since then, the government has relaxed that approach.
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Reid says some Republicans will back energy bill after elections

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 6:51am
Senate majority leader Harry Reid says that at least two Republican senators will support a renewable energy standard as part of a pared-down energy bill.
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Feds: Homeowners must pay off energy loans before refinancing

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 6:42am
Many homeowners who participated in a program that let them repay the cost of energy improvements through their property taxes must pay off the loans before they can refinance their mortgages, two government-chartered mortgage companies said Tuesday.
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Ted Nace: It’s time for ‘Cash for Coal Clunkers’

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 6:37am
Although it is estimated that tightened emissions regulation will push about a sixth of the aging coal fleet into retirement, those plants that survive the gauntlet will be harder than ever to close after receiving expensive retrofits.
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Enbridge being investigated for Michigan oil spill cleanup tactics

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 6:30am
The nation's top law enforcement official is being asked to look into whether Enbridge Energy Partners pressured Michigan residents to give up legal rights to sue in exchange for hotel rooms, air purifiers and other expenses in the wake of July's oil spill.
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Delays plague solar development on high-potential federal land

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 6:25am
Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.
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FutureGen partners to stick with revamped plan

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 6:02am
At least some of the coal producers and other companies working with the Department of Energy to build an experimental coal-fired power plant in Illinois have decided to stick with the project despite major changes to the original plan.
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Can off-the-shelf reactors keep nuclear costs down?

Midwest Energy News - September 1, 2010 - 6:00am
Of the nation’s 104 commercial reactors, no two are exactly the same, a fact that experts blame for causing construction and regulatory delays and leading to bigger bills for power customers.
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Ohio Tea Party letter: CO2 regulation “should be left to God”

Midwest Energy News - August 31, 2010 - 1:30pm
The Sandusky Register has unearthed an email sent out last week by a local Tea Party group called The Freedom Institute of Erie County to the representatives of candidates seeking office in the forthcoming elections.
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John Deere getting out of renewable energy business

Midwest Energy News - August 31, 2010 - 10:08am
The company said Tuesday that the sale of John Deere Renewables to a subsidiary of Exelon for $900 million will allow it to focus on its core business of manufacturing farm equipment.
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Report: Energy storage could be $35 billion business by 2020

Midwest Energy News - August 31, 2010 - 10:02am
Energy storage could become a $35 billion business by 2020, bolstered by more wind and solar farms coming online as well as the roll out of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles and the deployment of smart grid technology, according to a new report by Pike Research.
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University of Minnesota study: Climate change turning North Woods into prairie

Midwest Energy News - August 31, 2010 - 9:34am
Northern forests will become thinner in the next few decades. The prairie will march north and east. Climate change and drought are not the only things forest managers need to worry about, says a scientific paper to be published this week.
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Fate of FutureGen project may become clearer this week

Midwest Energy News - August 31, 2010 - 8:58am
The companies pursuing the experimental FutureGen power plant are expected to meet in Washington D.C. as early as today to decide whether to stay involved now that it has been drastically altered by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Wisconsin energy regulators approve wind turbine siting rules

Midwest Energy News - August 31, 2010 - 7:15am
The Public Service Commission voted 3-0 to adopt standards for noise and shadow flicker, and opted to allow local governments to require "good neighbor payments" to residents who live within one-half mile of a wind turbine.
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