02/16/12 10:26am

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RENEWABLES

Solar industry overcapacity could drag on for some time (via Huffington Post/Associated Press)

China solar silicon production curbed 30% to lift prices  (via Bloomberg)

Cape Wind’s NStar win may pave way for first US offshore farm (via Bloomberg)

The humanitarian side of solar and renewables (via Greentech Media)

Japan firms plan wind farm near Fukushima (via Yahoo! News/AFP)

Japan solar cell sales rise 30.7% in 2011 (via Reuters)

Many jobs may be gone with the wind energy credit (via NPR)

Advanced biofuel industry on the cusp of “told you so” (via AOL Energy)

US probes golden eagles’ deaths as LA DWP wind farm (via Los Angles Times)

OIL/GASOLINE

Iran warns 6 European Countries it will cut off oil (via New York Times)

Iran’s saber rattling over oil shows that the energy crisis is still with us (via Washington Post)

Bill Gates jumps into fray over SEC oil transparency rule (via The Hill)

House Republicans push new oil drilling to fund road projects (via Los Angeles Times)

GREEN BUSINESS

Accenture launches initiative to give young workers green skills (via BusinessGreen)

Investors call on European Central Bank to address ‘carbon bubble’ risks (via BusinessGreen)

OIL SANDS

Nobel laureates urge EU leaders to back tar sands law (via Reuters)

EMISSIONS/CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT

South Korean carbon trading bill faces further delay (via BusinessGreen)

Perfect storm of fire overdue in the West (via Mother Jones)

UK carbon market expertise in demand ahead of Aussie trading scheme (via BusinessGreen)

California cap-and-trade law spurs US forest carbon projects (via Mongabay)

RGGI pull out will cost New Jersey hundreds of millions of dollars (via Newark Star-Ledger)

Insurer Zurich Financial may say net income dropped 31% on flood losses (via Bloomberg Businessweek)

US pushes to cut emissions of some pollutants that hasten climate change (via New York Times)

Texas drought likely killed over 5 million urban trees (via StateImpact Texas)

NUCLEAR

Japan ignored nuclear risks, official says (via New York Times)

GRID

Warm weather, low natural gas prices hold down wholesale power prices this winter (via US EIA)

Will electric cars strain the Texas grid? (via StateImpact Texas)

TRANSPORTATION

Washington State senate passes $100 annual fee for electric vehicles (Autoblog Green)

Tesla takes 500 Model X reservations worth $40M, Model S sales spike (via Autoblog Green)

Toyota: if all Americans drove a Prius, foreign oil dependence would drop 70% (via Autoblog Green)

Pike forecasts global revenue from fuel cells and hydrogen will reach $785M in 2012 (via Green Car Congress)

CLEAN TECH

Introducing the sub-$5 LED bulb, via Lemnis (via Earth2Tech)

GREEN BUILDING

Behind the top 10 list for green building markets (via GreenBiz)

10 predictions on commercial energy management by 2020 (via GreenBiz)

COAL

Coal country losing luster (via Forbes)

POLITICS

Obama budget nixes new money for program that funded Solyndra (via Huffington Post)

Rep. Upton pushed for loan to now-bankrupt solar company (via The Hill)

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