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Q-Cells To Cut 500 Employees

German solar company reports 3Q loss associated with reorganization; terminates LDK Solar supply deal.

Southern Co. To Build TX Biomass Facility

Southern Power expects to spend between $475 million and $500 million completing the Nacogdoches Generating Facility.

Update: AMAT Acquires Advent Solar, Announces Job Cuts

Acquisition is expected to complement Applied’s portfolio of solar PV technologies.

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by Lester Brown For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9%. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy. The U.S. has ended a century of rising carbon emissions and has now entered a new energy era, one of declining emissions. Peak carbon is now history. What had appeared to be hopelessly difficult is happening at amazing speed. For a country where oil and coal use have been growing for more than a century, the fall since 2007 is startling. In 2008, oil use dropped 5%, coal 1%, and carbon emissions 3%. Estimates for 2009, based on U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) data for the first nine months, show oil use down by another 5%. Coal is set to fall 10%. Carbon emissions from burning all fossil fuels dropped 9% over the two years. Beyond the cuts already made, there are further massive reductions in the policy pipeline. Prominent among them are stronger automobile fuel-economy […]