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BP chief hails American breakthrough in gas supplies from shale rocks

BP’s Tony Hayward tells World Economic Forum of ‘game changer’ technique to serve world’s energy needsA controversial method of extracting gas from shale rocks and coal seams pioneered in the US has been described by the head of BP as a “complete game changer” that would transform the future of energy in that country over [...]

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BP biofuels’ data criticised

Renewable Fuels Agency says BP did not give enough information about the biofuels that it mixes with petrolBP was criticised by the Renewable Fuels Agency in its annual report today for not giving enough information on the sustainability of the bio­fuels it is selling on the forecourt.BP said it had met at least one [...]

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Urban Pace Sells Out ‘The Nine’ in Just 6 Weeks

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Urban Pace, a Washington, DC, real estate sales company, today announced that it has completed sales at The Nine, a condominium project in the revitalized Ninth Street corridor.  Square foot prices at…

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Campaign for America’s Wilderness and Pew Environment Group Join Forces

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced that effective February 1, 2010, the Campaign for America’s Wilderness (CAW) will become part of the Pew Environment Group, expanding Pew’s work to protect public …

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U.S. cap and trade must take back seat: executives

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Business executives and policy officials said a U.S. cap and trade scheme must give way to a clean energy law, after U.S. President Barack Obama favored “green jobs” in his State of the Union Address.

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Calls for DfID to increase agriculture spending to 10%

Why no thought for food? report criticises the Department for International Development for neglecting agriculture and recommends it doubles its current aid budget in this areaAgriculture should be placed at the heart of the Department for International Development’s (DfID) plans to fight poverty, with at least 10% of its overseas aid budget being channelled into [...]

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Concentrix Solar Wins IEC Certification for New CPV Module ‘CX-75′

BERNIN, France, January 28 /PRNewswire/ — Concentrix Solar, a leading
supplier of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) systems and a new division of the
Soitec Group (Euronext Paris), the world’s supplier of engineered substrates,
announced today that …

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Plastics Industry Partners with LA River Keepers to Promote a Cleaner Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ — In an ongoing effort to increase recycling in California, support environmental education and keep litter out of our waterways, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) today joined LA City Councilman Ed Reyes and repre…

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European Union Associates Itself With Copenhagen Accord and Submits Emissions Reduction Target

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In a letter to the UN Climate Change  Convention Secretariat, the European Union and its member states today confirmed  their willingness to be associated with the Copenhagen Accord negotiated du…

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Poland Spring to Be Honored at the Androscoggin Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Awards Tonight

LEWISTON, Maine, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Tonight, Poland Spring Water Company will receive the Androscoggin Chamber’s first-ever Poland Business of the Year Award at their annual meeting and awards dinner in Lewiston.  The historic Maine water bot…

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