11/04/11 10:15am

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POLITICS

House Panel Votes to Subpoena Solyndra Documents (via The New York Times Green Blog)

Energy secretary: Loan programs can be improved upon (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

Solyndra’s Refinancing Would Have Given U.S. a 40% Stake (via Bloomberg)

Department of Energy: 'Fewer than 1%' of stimulus projects led to IG probes (via Politico)

Democrats block bill to delay clean air rules (via Reuters)

House GOP bill would tie infrastructure spending to energy production (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

Protesters target Perry, TCEQ over tax break (via Fuel Fix)

KEYSTONE XL/OIL SANDS

Keystone XL: Haste And Inexperience Hampered State Department's Environmental Review (via The Huffington Post)

Canada ambassador: Pipeline should win on merit (via Journal Star)

Survey: 79 percent of voters want more oil from Canada (via Fuel Fix)

Keystone XL Primer: Secrecy Still Shrouds Diluted Bitumen Risks (via Inside Climate News)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Speaks Out Against Keystone XL Pipeline (via The Huffington Post)

NATURAL GAS/FRACKING

Federal probe into hydraulic fracturing and its effects on drinking water to begin (via The Washington Post)

PG&E Boosts Safety-Upgrade Plans (via The Wall Street Journal)

Gas Company Takes Town To State Supreme Court (via WBNG)

Britain: Fracking protesters storm shale gas exploration site (via The Guardian)

OIL/GASOLINE/DRILLING

BP begins drilling deep-water well at Kaskida field (via Fuel Fix)

BP Unit to Pay Texas $50 Million in Pollution Settlement (via Bloomberg)

COAL/MINING

Coal-Ash Disaster Lingers in Tennessee as Regulation Fight Rages (via Bloomberg)

NUCLEAR

Post-Fukushima nuclear generation could fall 15 pct (via Reuters)

CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT/EMISSIONS

Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases (via USA Today)

U.S. Carbon Footprint Shrank 7 Percent in Past 4 Years, Report Says (via Fox News)

Major berg forming in Antarctica (via BBC)

Birds Fly in the Face of Climate Change Expectations (via The New York Times Green Blog)

Why women get walloped more than men by the globe’s ever-changing climate (via The Daily Beast)

BEACON POWER

Judge Grants Motions Filed by Beacon Power After Bankruptcy (via Fox News)

SOLAR//WIND/RENEWABLES

SunPower, First Solar Reorganize as Prices, Demand Decline (via Bloomberg)

Cost of solar energy may go up in Virginia (via The Washington Post)

AUTOS/TRANSPORTATION

Tesla planning super charging station between SF and LA (via GigaOM)

Scotland to build 'world's first' battery powered passenger ferries (via Business Green)

CLEAN TECH

Clean-tech venture funding jumps as other sectors go wanting (via The Los Angeles Times)

OPINION/ANALYSIS

Thrift, innovation to win from U.S.-China solar row (via Reuters)

China Solar Boom Erodes Technology Edge Backed by U.S. Loans (via Bloomberg)

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