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GE plugs into Better Place, Sharp buys California solar developer
General Electric and Sharp just hooked up with two green tech startups: Better Place and Recurrent Energy.
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Fortune 500 energy and enviro veteran named chair of solar startup
In any industry, there are turning points that bear watching. BrightSource Energy, a California solar developer, announced John E. Bryson as its new chair.
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Walmart says thin (solar) is in
By partnering with a US solar firm to install photovoltaic panels on 30 stores, Walmart gives U.S. solar a big boost in its competition with China.
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The feds' oil-spill number games
Initial government estimates about the size of the Gulf oil spill were low -- way, way low.
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Signs of a reverse brain drain, from finance to farms
Holton Farms' Community Supported Agriculture program is unusual for several reasons, not least because it's being run by a former Credit Suisse banker.
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What's next for the Gulf, and other green news
The Macondo oil well is dead, but stories about the Gulf weren't capped with it. Find out about the state of the Gulf.
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Obituary for an oil well
A nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico began with flames, billowing plumes of oil, and 24-7 media coverage. But the final death of the Macondo oil well reads much more like a gentle passing in the night. To which we say: RIP (and good riddance).
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California's landmark climate law: Job killer or creator?
Proposition 23 proponents claim AB 32 will kill jobs and California should wait until unemployment rates drops to 5.5 percent. Is there truth to that?
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It's official: Jack DeCoster rules the U.S. egg roost
In my Monday post, I couldn't quite establish that "habitual violator" Jack DeCoster controls the largest U.S. egg conglomerate. But new information has emerged that allows DeCoster to be crowned definitively king.
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Enviros step up fundraising to defeat California's Prop 23, oil industry pleas for money
Fundraising by the oil companies trying to kill California's AB 32 was so lackluster it prompted a plea for money from Big Oil.
