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Photo via PhillipCThe Pacific Institute has released a new report titled "California's Next Million Acre-Feet: Saving Water, Energy and Money that outlines the steps the state can take to come up with its next one million acre-feet of water. All of it would be relatively easy and a whole lot cheaper than trying to drum up even more fresh water out of a dried-out state -- even cheaper than surface
Reuters - Midstream energy services provider Enterprise Products Partners LP said it would buy Enterprise GP Holdings LP for about $8.03 billion to reduce its capital costs and simplify its partnership structure.
NewsFactor - Hewlett-Packard submitted a $2 billion offer for 3PAR on Friday morning, topping Dell's latest $1.8 billion bid for the storage technology provider. Formed in 1999 by a group of server-cluster engineers from Sun Microsystems, 3PAR offers technologies that enable enterprises to service a wide range of applications concurrently from multiple on-premise servers, virtual cloud servers, o
A $20 billion compensation fund for economic victims of the BP Gulf oil spill opens for business on Monday amid accusations that the rules established by its administrator are unfair. Oil spill - Business - BP - Gulf Oil - Environment
Reuters - Dell Inc plans to buy data storage company 3PAR Inc for $1.15 billion in cash, expanding its cloud computing business to compete with other technology services companies like IBM.
Why does the normally liberal Democrat Durbin turn into such a snake oil salesman when it comes to dirty coal?
BONN, Germany — Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel...
A new legislation was recently introduced in the Senate to provide an investment tax credit (ITC) to energy storage facilities. Senate Bill 3617 – the Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2010 (the “STORAGE 2010 Act”) – would provide up to $1.5 billion in tax credits to storage projects...
Mashable - There have now been more than 20 billion tweets since Twitterâs inception, according to tracking service GigaTweet.
photo: Kevin DooleyTwo new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the Congressional Budget Office, details how much money eliminating the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit; the second, from
"Incredibly dysfunctional" is not an option you can list as your relationship status on Facebook, but that seems to be the way to describe the site's relationship with its users. It's like an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend you hate so much but just keep going back to again and again and again, possibly because you can't find anyone better.
President Obama announced today the offer of a conditional commitment for loan guarantees to Abengoa Solar for $1,45 billion to finance the construction and start-up of a concentrating solar power generating facility, and $400 million to Abound Solar to manufacture thin-film solar panels.
Terra-Gen Power will use funding to complete 3,000-megawatt wind project north of Los Angeles.
Research analyst calculates how much must be spent to update U.S. commercial real estate versus the resulting savings in energy bills.
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