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German-led Collaboration Yields Biofuel from Beer Waste

German-led Collaboration Yields Biofuel from Beer Waste

Love your ales, pilsners, weissbeers and stouts, but worried about all that fermented grain waste?

Thanks to German researcher Wolfgang Bengel, brew lovers can help create cleaner energy every time they down a pint.

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$141M in Recovery Funds Will Help Low-Income Families Save on Energy Bills

$141M in Recovery Funds Will Help Low-Income Families Save on Energy Bills

The US Department of Energy has released a second wave of millions in stimulus funding aimed at helping low and middle-income families, across 13 states, save money on energy bills.

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States Get Millions in Stim Funds to Expand Renewable Energy, Efficiency, Green Jobs Programs

States Get Millions in Stim Funds to Expand Renewable Energy, Efficiency, Green Jobs Programs

Five states and one US territory are receiving over $141 million in federal economic stimulus funds for state-based renewable energy and energy efficiency programs. It's just part of the $3.1 billion allocated to State Energy Programs (SEPs) under the Recovery Act.

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Liveblogging: Senate Hears Business, Urban Recovery Perspectives on Clean Energy-Climate Policy

Liveblogging: Senate Hears Business, Urban Recovery Perspectives on Clean Energy-Climate Policy

The pugnacious morning session of the Senate's energy and climate hearings broke in time for committee members to make it to Al Franken's swearing-in as Minnesota's junior senator.  

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Liveblogging: Talking Biomass, Solar Thermal, Train Transportation at Senate Energy Hearing

Liveblogging: Talking Biomass, Solar Thermal, Train Transportation at Senate Energy Hearing

Transportation, biomass, carbon offsets -- these were just some of the policy overhauls discussed this morning at a Senate Environment and Public Works committee hearing on energy and climate policy.

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Liveblogging: Agency Heads Urge Senate Action on Clean Energy Incentives, Curbing Climate Change

Liveblogging: Agency Heads Urge Senate Action on Clean Energy Incentives, Curbing Climate Change

In opening statements before the Environment and Public Works committee, top Obama administration officials urged the Senate to take fast and effective action to accelerate the nation's expansion of clean energy generation, both to create jobs and to and cut the human-propelled greenhouse gas pollution that is causing

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Liveblogging Senate Energy and Climate Hearing: Are GOP, Blue Dog Dem Senators fissioning on clean energy?

Liveblogging Senate Energy and Climate Hearing: Are GOP, Blue Dog Dem Senators fissioning on clean energy?

Fresh from their July 4th break, the senators of the Environment and Public Works committee made animated opening statements at today's hearing, the first of four called by committee chair Sen.

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A New Kind of Hybrid: Nano-scaled Device Combines Solar, Mechanical Energy Generation

A New Kind of Hybrid: Nano-scaled Device Combines Solar, Mechanical Energy Generation

Creating renewable energy from motion is usually done on a large mechanical scale -- such as turbines spinning in the wind or propelled by underwater currents.  But minutely small mechanical devices have the potential to harness a lot of energy, as well.

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Sudan Joins Forces With Brazil, Egypt to Produce Ethanol

Sudan Joins Forces With Brazil, Egypt to Produce Ethanol

Sudan, Brazil and Egypt are pooling resources on biofuels projects that could eventually address many of the globe's most pressing problems at once: cleaning up air pollution, improving food security, lessening poverty, and of course, creating new low-carbon sources of liquid fuel energy.

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Efficiency Is Sexy: Obama Announces New Standards, Stim Spending to Cut Energy Use

Efficiency Is Sexy: Obama Announces New Standards, Stim Spending to Cut Energy Use

Building off the momentum of recent wins like increased auto fuel efficiency standards, and the House passage of clean energy and climate legislation, President Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu have unveiled new federal standards for energy use by both commercial and home lamps an

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