05/24/11 10:34am

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US gas prices down 9 cents over past 2 weeks (via MSNBC)

EPA Administrator Jackson to face GOP critics ... again (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

Report Finds Obama Policies to Blame for High Energy Prices (via National Review Online)

House Democrats urge limits on oil speculators (via Reuters)

Factbox: U.S. energy efforts to battle high gasoline prices (via Reuters)

Analysis: Why Washington is talking a lot (but doing very little) on energy policy (via The Houston Chronicle)

Editorial: 'Drill, baby, drill' won't do it (via The Los Angeles Times)

Facing Up to End of 'Easy Oil' (via The Wall Street Journal)

British Government Faces Up To Peak Oil (via Forbes)

Heeding an oil-spill lesson, 2 agencies team up (via The New York Times Green Blog)

No link between tornadoes and climate change: US (via AFP)

Tornado Outbreak Possible in Kansas and Oklahoma (via The New York Times Dot Earth)

Wind energy industry demands Bonneville fix problems forcing shut-off of NW wind generators (via The Washington Post)

BPA To Test Wind Storage Solution (via ECT.coop)

Siemens Energy announces wind jobs in NW Okla. (via Bloomberg Business Week)

Fort Collins at forefront of energy conservation study (via Coloradoan.com)

Energy usage attributable to electric vehicles could rise 1,700% by 2020 (via Autoblog Green)

Australian climate change report bolsters carbon tax (via Business Green)

Green investment bank to begin lending from next April (via Business Green)

Top 10 countries using IT to reduce carbon emissions (via GigaOM)

Gas threat to wind growth (via Financial Times)

The value of a negawatt (via Green Tech Media)

6 amazing facts about electricity transmission in China (via Green Bang)

Jobs and savings help regional carbon market survive GOP attacks (via Solve Climate News)

Offshore drilling pact will give NOAA scientists more say (via Los Angeles Times)

Germany copes without bulk of nuclear power (via Reuters)

Japan may require solar panels on all new buildings by 2030 (via Clean Technica)

GM doubles oil spill waste collected from Gulf disaster (via Green Biz)

Record snowpacks could threaten western states (via The New York Times)

Texas House to consider water conservation plan (via The Houston Chronicle)

1,600 MW of North American wind projects in pipeline (via Energy Boom)

Why the All-Electric Leaf May Not Be Your Greenest Fleet Option (via Green Biz)

Electricity from microbes a step closer: study (via Reuters)

Cities Embrace the Adaptation Imperative (via The New York Times Green Blog)

U.S. buying 101 Chevy Volts, will install gov't charging stations (via The Detroit News)

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