Gas leak at Total North Sea platform. Gas cloud surrounding the platform, 6-mile sheen on water. Shell evacuating their adjacent platforms.
Coral damage in Gulf traced to BP spill.
EPA released proposed rule for power plants. Would require only new plants to match NG-fired plant emissions. Existing coal plants (or other) grandfathered in. And the mercury and other pollution continues.
Judge denied enviro's effort to block drilling in Ozark forest.
Toyota, BMW teaming up on next-gen batts.
Prices for polysilicon, wafers near manufacturing costs. Many suppliers taking capacity offline to try to bolster prices. Some will shut down. A new process - "cast-mono" silicon - can lower costs. Expected to reach 25% of all wafer production by '16.
Virent, Virdia pioneering super-performing, parity-cost jet fuel from cellulosic pine tree sugars. World class scale expected by '17-'20.
Nebraska ethanol plants adding production and railcar-loading capacity.
Entergy fined $1.2M for '10 transformer fire at Indian Point nuke plant that spilled oil into Hudson. They had another transformer fire in '07.
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