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Amid environmental concerns, a Venezue lan power line was inaugurated in Brazil recently. The us $400 million high-voltage line runs through Vene zuela's ecologically sensitive southeast
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Time to 'learn' clean energy is now or never
Source: N Mattson 1998, GENIE: An energy systems model with uncertain learning, quoted in Anon 1999, A GENIE for Imperfect Foresight, IEA/OECD ETSAP News, June
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Kerala clears Pathrakkadavu hydroelectric project near national park
on april 18, 2007, the Kerala government gave
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The new Money plant
The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India s burgeoning oil import bill. And there s lots of money to be made. But who will earn? What land will be used for this? <font class='UCASE'>down t
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Black attack
Has the Union ministry of environment and forests laid malicious siege to Dahanu taluka, in Maharashtra s Thane district?
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Red carpet goes green as stars become eco-conscious
Hollywood: As the environmentally friendly limo-driver to the stars, Y Fray does not like to talk about her A-list clientele. But one look at the wall of her office
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Mangla dam raising project in full swing
Construction work of over Rs 100 billion for raising of the country's second biggest Mangla Dam is in full swing and so far over 54 percent of the construction work on the mega project has been comple
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Severe cyclonic storm hits Badarpur
A severe cyclonic storm hit Badarpur at midnight on Friday. The storm damaged a large numbers of houses, trees, electric posts, telephone wires etc in the town and adjacent villages.
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Union blasts GE Health care
Delegates of the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communications Workers of America/GE Conference Board voted unanimously to authorize a national strike in the U.S. if General Electric Co.
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Food and drug agency approves cardiac defibrillator for the home
The Food and Drug Administration, US approved the first cardiac defibrillator designed specifically for use at home. The device, which uses a jolt of electricity to jump-start a failing heart, could
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14,000 trees to be cut in Rajaji national park
Supreme Court has given orders for laying electricity lines in Rajaji national park. From Tehri to Meerut, for the lines to be laid only 14,739 trees would be cut and for proper security measures
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Local coal for MP power plants
The Union coal ministry has agreed to consider supplying coal to the Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board power plants from the Chhindwara and Betul mines of the Western Coalfield. This will put an
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'BSES stalling installation of pollution control unit'
The Maharashtra pollution control board has accused the city electricity company, BSES, of using delaying tactics to hold up the installation of a de-sulphurisation unit at its Dahanu thermal plant.
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GE unveils loco to meet emissions standards - WSJ
General Electric Co. (GE.N), in a major revamp of its railroad-locomotive technology, is launching a high-horsepower locomotive design it says will meet more-stringent federal emissions standards
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U.S. to order $490 million river cleanup by G.E.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in what would be the most ambitious river cleanup in the nation's history, plans to order the General Electric Company to spend a half-billion dollars to
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Power plant pollution claims 30,000 lives every year in US
Pollution from electric power plants in the United States shorten the lives of more than 30,000 people every year, according to a new report released in Washington by environmental and health
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Another leopard kiled
It was death more tragic than that of Sakhi. A young leopard, which remained elusive for a poachers' team that has been after it for over a fortnight, was killed at last by laying an electric trap
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Hurricane Keith leaves central America high and dry, weakens
Hurricane Keith pounded Belize's delicate reef islands on Sunday, sending palm trees and electricity poles flying, and dumped heavy rain as far south as Nicaragua, where one person drowned. The US
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Electricity, water to be denied to polluting units
Jagmohan: Electricity, water and other faciliites will be denied to the water polluting industries refusing to move out of residential area of the city, Union Urban Development Minister Jagmohan said
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Toyota makes a bet on Hybrid Prius
As the auto industry becomes intrigued with new vehicles that run on both gas and electricity, Toyota Motor Corp. is giving a boost to its new hybrid car, Prius, that goes on sale next month in the