01/04/12 10:08am

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TRANSPORTATION

Cancelling ethanol subsidy likely to raise the price of gas at the pump (via Autoblog Green)

AMP to bring Jeep Grand Cherokee to Detroit auto show (via CNET)

Polk forecasts global new vehicle auto sales to reach 77.7M in 2012, up 6.7% (via Green Car Congress)

RENEWABLES

Solar industry trade group announces merger (via The Hill)

Asian countries at head of developing world pack in renewable energy shift (via AOL Energy)

US’ first LEED platinum stadium uses wind turbines to power its games (via Inhabitat)

Germany reports record 60 percent surge in solar generation (via BusinessGreen)

OIL & GAS

Iran threatens US ships, alarms oil markets (via Washington Post)

Saudi Arabia’s thirst for oil threatens world markets (via GreenBang)

Enterprise to build ethane pipeline from Pennsylvania to Texas (via Houston Chronicle’s Fuel Fix)

Canadian crude oil production to increase 3300% by 2100 (via Rescuing the Frog)

ENVIRONMENT/EMISSIONS/CLIMATE

Bay group says Chesapeake cleanup to create more than 230,000 jobs (via Baltimore Sun)

Texas’ latest disaster – drought – has severe economic effects (via Star-Telegram)

Study finds increased air pollution can worsen both drought and flooding (via Green Car Congress)

China’s city dwellers to breathe unhealthy air ‘for another 20-30 years’ (via The Guardian)

FRACKING

Earthquakes could cause fracking policy shift (via Huffington Post)

China set to frack America in deal with Devon (via Forbes)

GRID

How to compare energy storage projects (via Earth2Tech)

100 million meters coming to Europe by 2016 (via GreenTech Media)

China preps for ‘massive’ smart meter deployment (via SmartPlanet)

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