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Its last nuclear reactor going offline, Japan takes tentative steps toward renewable energy

Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution.On Saturday, the last of the country's 50 usable nuclear reactors will be switched off, completely idling a power source that once supplied a third of Japan's electricity. At a time when temptation to set the aircon to deep freeze is at its greatest, companies and ordinary Japanese will be obliged to economize amid temperatures that can climb above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).Nuclear energy seemed a steady mainstay of Japan's power supply until the March 11, 2011, tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in the worst atomic accident since the 1986 Chernobyl explosion. Authorities have since tightened safety standards and refrained from restarting reactors that were shut down, mostly for routine checks.To offset the shortfall, utilities have ramped up oil- and g...

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    E. coli may be getting an image makeover.Scientists in the U.K. are aiming to put the bacterium, best known as the culprit behind deadly bouts of food poisoning arou...

  2. Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island

    In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire R...

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    A recent government report shows billions in taxpayer dollars are being swept away by pricey wind energy initiatives that often overlap, even as the IRS moves to up ...

  6. Big blow to wind power ?

    Taxpayer-funded subsidies set to expire

  7. RTR: Obama Will Delay Keystone Pipeline

    Environmentalist Steve Kirsch on the efforts to prevent the completion of the XL pipeline in favor of alternative energy .

  8. Germany's Siemens to give up solar energy business

    Siemens AG announced plans to give up its loss-making solar business and concentrate its renewable energy business on wind and hydroelectric power.The German industr...

  9. Cabinet panel wants Japan to end nuclear power use

    A Cabinet panel on Friday called for Japan to phase out nuclear power over the next three decades in what would be a major shift of national energy policy prompted b...

  10. Cabinet panel wants Japan to phase out nuclear power by 2030s in energy policy overhaul

    A Cabinet panel on Friday called for Japan to phase out nuclear power over the next three decades in what would be a major shift of national energy policy prompted b...

  11. Tesla Profit Coming From Tax Credits?

    National Legal and Policy Center’s Paul Chesser on the tax subsidies Tesla is receiving from California.

  12. California doubles down on solar power , as critics question cost, job results

    The promise of clean and cheap solar energy is getting a second look in California, where utilities are required to get a third of their power from renewable power b...

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    In an effort to slow the pace of climate change, students at more than 200 colleges are asking their schools to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.The Fossil Fr...

  2. Obama administration gives wind farms a pass on eagle deaths, prosecutes oil companies

    The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and hel...

  3. Will Wind Power Replace Solar?

    Jim Gordon, Energy Management, Inc. president, on the development of the first offshore wind farm and wind power versus solar power .

  4. California Facing Rolling Blackouts Because of Green Energy?

    Environment California’s Michelle Kinman and Heritage Foundation Research Fellow David Kreutzer on the impact of California’s growing use of solar and wind energy .

  5. State-Mandated Rules on Renewable Energy Actually a Tax?

    Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James Taylor on the government’s push for renewable energy .

  6. Apple owns biggest private solar power system in US

    Forget red apples. These Apples are green.The iPhone maker announced on Friday that fully 75 percent of its corporate facilities and data centers are powered by ener...

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    Gary Gastelu on scientists discovering an unconventional solution

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