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Edison's renewable energy plan awaits green light from FAA
A Southern California Edison plan to bring more renewable energy to the Southland is in a temporary holding pattern as the utility waits for Federal Aviation Administration clearance to allow helicopters to buzz over La Caņada Flintridge and Pasadena....Tags: Environmental Issues, Solar Energy, Southern California Edison Company, Wind Power, Energy Saving
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Solar energy pays off in the end
Once again we were thankful for the photovoltaic (solar electricity) system we installed on our roof in 2001. Due to an accident with a sewer hookup, the electricity in our area was disrupted Thursday morning. I didn't even realize the power was out until...Tags: Environmental Issues, Hybrid Vehicles, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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Green is hot in LCF
La Caņada Flintridge is one of the greenest cities in the region — and not only because of all the trees lining its streets. The city has three times as many residential solar installations as Pasadena or La Crescenta, and more participating...Tags: Solar Energy, Arts, Southern California Edison Company, Companies and Corporations, Business
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Car wash is thinking green
It’s no secret the Foothill Car Wash Lube Oil and Detail Center has gone green. The giant solar panels on top of the car wash are dead giveaways and there are multiple signs posted at the site, in the 2300 block of Foothill Boulevard.
It’s...Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Solar Energy, Passenger Cars, Human Interest, Science and Technology
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Mother Nature is her lab partner
The vehicle for all of life’s variety and complexity has found a new driver in La Caņada’s Frances Arnold. In her laboratories at Caltech, Arnold is harnessing the evolutionary process to create new proteins and enzymes that have the...
Tags: Material Science, Chemical Industry, Technology, Awards and Prizes, Conservation
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Terra-Gen gets OK on wind farm in wake of condor decision
MOJAVE, Calif. — Randy Hoyle strode proudly this week along a wind-swept expanse of sand, sage and juniper in the Tehachapi Mountains that will soon bristle with antennas and listening devices designed to protect endangered California condors....
Tags: Solar Energy, Environmental Issues, Fines, Wind Power, Endangered Species
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Feds won't prosecute wind farm if turbine blades kill a condor
Federal wildlife officials on Friday for the first time agreed not to prosecute a developer if an endangered California condor is struck and killed by turbine blades at its proposed wind farm in the Tehachapi Mountains, about 100 miles north of Los...Tags: Environmental Issues, Solar Energy, Fines, Wind Power, Endangered Species
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Illinois counties can do little but brace for fracking's impact
Tribune reporterCREAL SPRINGS, Ill.-- Oil and gas companies and environmental groups have hashed out legislation they say would make Illinois a national leader in protecting public health and the environment from fracking. The proposal covering the process more...Tags: American Legion, Environmental Issues, Arable Farming, Credit and Debt, Dwayne Johnson
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George Packer chronicles American boom and bust in 'The Unwinding'
George Packer's new nonfiction book, "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," has many of the qualities of an epic novel. Packer's subject is the last 35 years of U.S. history, the decades that gave us the conservative "Contract With...Tags: Environmental Issues, Ethics, Philosophy, Services and Shopping, Values
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Bobby Likis: Use ethanol to meet clean air standards
On May 13 your editorial called for Gov. Rick Scott to sign HB4001, removing ethanol from the Renewable Fuel Standards. Many of the points on which you based your opinion are wrong. The governor should veto this jobs and investment-killing bill. For 42...Tags: Environmental Issues, Ethanol, Government, Regional Authority, Executive Branch
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Minn. ethanol makers hope to snap back this year
FAIRMONT, Minn. - Farmer Dwayne Ehlert remembers the moment last August when he delivered a truckload of corn to an ethanol plant here and sold it for a record $8.16 a bushel. "I knew it was good for me, and I knew it wasn't good for anyone else,"...Tags: Environmental Issues, Ethanol, Energy Saving, Dwayne Johnson, Business Enterprises
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Offshore winds focus of Virginia meeting
An authority promoting the development of wind power off Virginia's coast is scheduled to meet in Richmond. The Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority is meeting Thursday. The agenda includes a discussion of an agreement to protect the rare...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Wind Power, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia)
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