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Priority Changes On Green Policies

By Richard Simon WASHINGTON – Reflecting a shift in priorities under the Democratic majority, Congress is moving to spend as much as $6.7 billion next fiscal year to combat global warming, an increase of nearly one-third from the current year. House appropriations bills call for about $2 billion in new spending on initiatives aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil dependency, significantly expanding the budgets for numerous federal research initiatives and launching some new ones. While legislation to raise vehicle miles-per-gallon standards and cap emissions from power plants has been slower moving – because of resistance from some lawmakers – Democrats have turned to the budget to advance their environmental priorities by increasing spending on a variety of lower-profile programs. That is likely to set up a showdown this fall between Congress and President Bush, who wants to spend less on climate-change initiatives. The White House budget office, which has criticized excessive spending in the overall appropriations bills, noted that the president’s proposed budget provides for a 3% increase in spending for climate-change activities. “Congress is putting its money where its mouth is,” said Lowell Ungar, senior policy analyst at the Alliance to Save Energy, a Washington coalition of […]

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A House Made of What?

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901685.html Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901685.html     

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Arctic Ice at All-Time Low

URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070820-global-warming.html Website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070820-global-warming.html     

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The Environmentally-Friendly Washing Machine

URL: http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/itll-all-come-out-in-the-wash/2007/08/18/1186857837706.html Website: http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/itll-all-come-out-in-the-wash/2007/08/18/1186857837706.html     

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PV Enterprise Signs 5 Year Module Supply Agreement

PV Enterprise Sweden has signed an agreement with German Systemhaus Corona2000 GmbH for the sale of 300 kW solar cell panels a month for five years. The volume of the order totals 18 mW, which at today’s market value means an order over the duration of the contract worth approximately SEK 470 million. In addition, Corona2000 also has an option to increase deliveries to 500 kW monthly, which if fully utilised would be a total order of 30 mW. The first request for delivery will be now, during August. “It is very gratifying that through this agreement, we will have stable sales to the same customer of approximately SEK 8 million a month for a period of five years. This also gives us a firm foundation on which to grow in a market that in the foreseeable future will expand at a rate of 40% a year,” says Kristoffer Lind, Managing Director. Website: http://www.pv-enterprise.com     

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