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• Business Technology: Using Smokestack Gases to Pump Oil --- Denbury Resources, Seeking Source of Carbon Dioxide for its Fields, to Scrub Emissions From Dow Chemical Plant February 9, 2010
  Carbon dioxide pouring from smokestacks hardly has a reputation as a valuable commodity. But one company has launched a series of projects to see if it can use the refuse of the industrial economy to breathe new life into tired oil fields.
• Democratic Climate Revolt February 8, 2010
  The Obama Administration has been moving full-speed ahead on anticarbon regulation, never mind waiting for Congress to pass a bill. But now opposition is building among senior Democrats, with two powerful committee Chairmen introducing a ...
• The Art Of Being Santa Fe February 7, 2010
  I CAN'T remember how or why it came to be dawn when I first saw Santa Fe from a bus window. It was my first time in New Mexico, the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to visit the land that had enflamed my imagination when as a teenager I'd ...
• Home Cooking with Chef Douglas Rodriguez; A Miami chef has spent years tinkering with Cuban cuisine. Now he plans a trip to its source February 7, 2010
  Miami-reared chef Douglas Rodriguez, a pioneer of the Nuevo Latino movement, the guy who made uptown stars out of down-home favorites yuca, malanga and plantain, says he's planning a culinary trip to Cuba.
• Renewable energy jobs and the future ; Jobs in industry could double in 15 years if U.S. adopts national standard February 5, 2010
  The number of clean-energy jobs in the U.S. would more than double by 2025 if the nation adopts a plan to get 25% of its electricity from renewable energy sources, says a report backed by energy firms.
• Volunteers Fly Supplies Into Hard-to-Reach Areas February 5, 2010
  LEOGANE, Haiti -- On a good day, a stray cow might be the only obstacle to landing the small planes bringing oxygen, crutches, baby formula and other supplies that will be put to immediate use at a hospital set up in a nursing school ...
• Obama Calls For Support In Promoting Clean Fuels February 5, 2010
  WASHINGTON -- President Obama moved on Wednesday to bolster the nation's production of corn-based ethanol and other alternative liquid fuels and ordered the rapid development of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the ...
• Panel rejects ethanol funds; Southland group says no to $11 million in stimulus money to set up fueling stations. February 5, 2010
  A regional panel Thursday turned down nearly $11 million in federal stimulus dollars targeted to build 55 ethanol fueling stations across Southern California, saying it had policy concerns about ethanol as an alternative to gasoline.
• Taste -- de gustibus: New Episodes Of Scientists Behaving Badly February 5, 2010
  This has not been the proudest of weeks for science. Twelve years after publishing an article purporting to prove a link between childhood vaccines and autism, the prominent British medical journal Lancet finally retracted the paper in its ...
• Obama unveils plan for alternative fuels Refiners say mandate for 2010 could hike costs at the pump ENERGY: Refiner says mandate 'unfair' February 5, 2010
  WASHINGTON - Saying he wanted to reduce the nation's "dependence on foreign oil," President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a raft of initiatives designed to boost the use of biofuels and make coal-fired power plants cleaner. In a ...
• EPA to boost ethanol usage February 4, 2010
  WASHINGTON - The Obama administration cleared the way Wednesday for more ethanol to be used in cars, trucks and airplanes after government scientists ruled the fuel is greener than they previously thought.
• Investment Dollars Flow To Green Energy Start-Ups February 4, 2010
  Start-ups developing products aimed at wringing every last drop of efficiency from green technologies have become the standouts in the increasingly crowded field of renewable energy.
• White House boosts biofuels; Corn ethanol, 'clean coal' are winners in Obama energy strategy February 4, 2010
  WASHINGTON The Obama administration gave a boost to the corn and coal industries on Wednesday, announcing a series of moves to accelerate biofuel use and deploy so-called clean coal technology in power plants.
• A boost for corn-based ethanol?; EPA STANDARD FOR BIOFUELS Agency, in shift, says climate may benefit February 4, 2010
  The nation's farmers got a big boost Wednesday when the Obama administration issued new biofuels guidelines that could open the way for large increases in the production of corn-based ethanol.
• ENVIRONMENT; Obama urges use of corn, clean coal; Ethanol gets a larger role in biofuels, and coal-plant-emission cutting gets a push. February 4, 2010
  WASHINGTON The Obama administration gave a boost to the corn and coal industries Wednesday, announcing a series of moves to accelerate biofuel use and deploy so-called clean-coal technology on power plants.