Month: December 2010

U.S. Coast Guard / Reuters There’s no contest. The biggest environment story of the year began on April 20 — the 40th anniversary of Earth Day — when BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. That began what is now known to be the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, with at least 185 million gallons of crude pouring into the Gulf. The disaster grabbed the public’s imagination as no environmental story had since, well, the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Underwater cameras revealed the…

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Dear all: As we have come to close to the end of the year, I feel privileged to thank and extend warm greetings to all who stood by our side and shaped us towards success.At this juncture, it is a promise , Ulaginoli will continue to be a sucessful partner, making lives easier and better for each one of us. Thank you clients, vendors, business associates, channel partners, employers and all the well wishers for the evergreen support and let us leap forward into the new year with the hope…

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For years it was the one and only way to deal with climate change, elegant in its simplicity. Treat greenhouse gases like pollutants, put a national limit on their emissions, then allow companies to trade carbon allowance and let the market find the most efficient way to cut carbon dioxide. As 2010 dawned, cap-and-trade seemed tantalizingly close to becoming the law of the land in the U.S., with a version having already passed the House of Representatives. But in truth it never had a chance. The 60-vote filibuster barrier in…

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1000 MW Initiative Example Will Set Example for Other StatesGujarat, located in western India and one of the most progressive states, has showcased a truly aggressive attitude towards harnessing optimum solar energy, as part of its Solar Policy 2009. A geographic area of 196,000 km2 receives average isolation of between 5.6 – 6 kWh/m2, which is higher than the figures for Spain. Gujarat was one of the first states to establish an agency dedicated to the development of renewable energy in 1979 Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA). The State Feed-In…

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The UN global warming summit in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 was meant to be a climate coronation. It turned out to be a funeral. Thanks in part to the fact that the U.S. was unable to come up with its own climate legislation in time, hopes were already dim for a global deal on carbon at Copenhagen. But once the meeting commenced, things went downhill fast. The conference was a logistical nightmare, with crowds pressing outside the Danish capital’s Bella Center, which was filled beyond capacity. There were…

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National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN), was appointed as the Nodal Agency, by Ministry of Power (MoP), Government of India, for the Phase – I of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), launched by the Prime Minister of India on January 11, 2010, with a target for putting into Operation 1000 MW of Grid Connected Solar Power Projects upto 2013. The role of NVVN envisages Purchase of Solar Power from Solar Power Developers (SPDs) and bundling the…

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The 2010 midterms were tough for Democrats and even tougher for environmentalists. The loss of the House and the near-loss of the Senate for Democrats mean that greens will be playing defense for at least the next two years. But there was a silver — or green — lining. In 2006 California passed a landmark climate change law that pledged the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. With the recession in full swing in the Golden State, business forces put a ballot initiative called…

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Cap-and-trade may be dead nationwide, but the defeat of Proposition 23 removed perhaps the last obstacle in the way of California developing its own carbon-cutting program. At the end of October, California’s powerful Air Resources Board released hundreds of pages of proposed regulations that will help California — which is, on its own, the eighth-biggest economy in the world — to cut some 273 million metric tons of CO2 or its equivalent between 2012 and 2020. California has the advantage of watching and learning from Europe’s own struggles with a…

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