Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid announced yesterday that the nearly century-old Capitol carbon plant, which provides heat and hot water to buildings of Congress, has stopped burning carbon. In past years the plant has used increasing amounts of natural gas instead of coal, and from, March of this year the plant has used only natural [...]
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The California attorney general, Jerry Brown, said today through a video on its website on the worldwide campaign, nominated as Democratic candidate for state governor in the November elections.
Californians Brown promised to “tell the truth” in California politics. He added that “in these times of recession, there will be no new taxes.”
The current [...]
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As part of a government initiative to improve the environment by using alternative energy, the municipality of Jerusalem will install solar panels in 20 cities in the coming years.
The project will cost NIS 100 million, but the municipality is not paying for the panels. Instead, the government will force energy companies to pay the costs. [...]
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Spanish Solar company will suspend two projects of the USA if the Investments of the Fiscal Credits do not extend Several of the packages of you stimulate of energies renewable introduced in the Congress of the USA, or in the Senate they have since to speak in it completes week. It completes word, of GreenTechMedia, [...]
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Improving interconnections to reduce dependence on foreign energy and ensure the power supply and diversify energy sources was what favored the energy ministers of the European Union.
At the Council of Ministers, all EU countries, were in favor of the measures proposed by the European Commission to move towards a sustainable energy last month, and [...]
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The Government of Mexico City bets to the construction of social and viable houses in the City, and in order to do so, they analyze if it is possible to grant a series of incentives for the industrialists who will built it.
These stimuli go from administrative and fiscal incentives to allowing the construction of more [...]
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The National Polytechnical Institute (IPN) and the Institute of the National Found for the House of the Working force (INFONAVIT) signed an agreement of academic collaboration, with the purpose of creating energetically efficient houses.
The agreement establishes the cooperation mechanisms so that investigators, educational and polytechnical students, participate in the creation of innovating houses that integrate [...]
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Without making much noise, almost under the table, the UK government closed its program of solar energy subsidies last week. It was not long until environmental groups learned of the news and have rebuked him that this decision is a mockery of the commitment that was supposed to build a low carbon economy.
The program in [...]
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Wanting to incentivize the use of green, environmentally friendly, vehicles, the president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa announced today that his government is going to make an exception on the payment of their taxes to vehicles that uses fuels or energies that protect the environment, such as ethanol, hydrogen and electricity.
On an event in the Official [...]
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As part of a government initiative to improve the environment by using alternative energy, the municipality of Jerusalem will install solar panels in 20 cities in the coming years.
The project will cost 100 million, but the municipality is not paying for the panels. Instead, the government obliged energy companies to pay the costs. Therefore, the [...]
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