Whatever happened to carbon capture in the fight against climate change? The Guardian | CCS has been hobbled by the economic crisis, and Europe is far behind the US – but a new Norwegian plant provides hope Norway's prime minister Jens Stoltenberg during the opening ceremony of the CCS Technology Centre in Mongstad, Norway. Photograph: Damian Carrington for the Guardian | In the co...
Wave power plants around the world The Examiner | Renewable energy from waves works best in parts of the world with steady access to powerful wind and wave resources. Countries with the most useful waves include Scotland (western coasts), northern Canada, southern Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii and the northwest coast of the Un...
Conn. subsidies seen spurring home solar power The Boston Globe | HARTFORD, Conn.-Dmitri Donskoy figures he'll save only $20 a month on his electricity bill after solar panels are installed on the roof of his home under a state-subsidized program. But he shrugs it off because the green energy appeals to his envir...
Conn. subsidies seen spurring home solar power my SA | HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Dmitri Donskoy figures he'll save only $20 a month on his electricity bill after solar panels are installed on the roof of his home under a state-subsidized program. But he shrugs it off because the green energy appeals to ...
Tamae Watanabe, 73-year-old Japanese Woman, Scales Mount Everest Huffington Post Tamae Watanabe | KATMANDU, Nepal -- A 73-year-old Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest's peak Saturday, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain. | Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,850-meter-...
U.S. manufacturing makes a comeback The Washington Post | Martin Neil Baily is a senior fellow in Brookings’s Economic Studies Program and holds the Bernard L. Schwartz chair in economic policy development. Bruce Katz is founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Instituti...
Judge deals setback to state unions on dues withdrawals Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Madison - State unions were dealt a setback Friday when a federal judge said they would have to get their members to opt in, rather than opt out, to have the state deduct union dues from their paychecks. | What's more, the judge did not rule on dues ...
Whitewater eliminates La Crosse in NCAA baseball regional Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Whitewater - UW-Whitewater failed to beat UW-La Crosse in four regular-season games. | The Warhawks failed to beat La Crosse in two Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament games. | Six games, six losses. | By of the Journal Sentinel ...
Vehicle crashes into house Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A vehicle crashed into a home on Milwaukee's west side near the border with Wauwatosa, authorities said. | The incident happened just after noon at a home near the intersection of W. Blue Mound Road and N. Glenview Ave., according to the Milwaukee Fi...
