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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. It is clean and flexible.

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House Chairmen Waxman, Markey Release Draft of Energy and Climate Legislation; Among the Many Provisions Are Cap-and-Trade, Harmonization of CAFE and California Vehicle Regulations, and Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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A transitioning title intended to protect US consumers and industry and promotes green jobs during the transition to a clean energy economy. Industrial Energy Efficiency. These are low-cost reductions in global warming pollution that can be secured by devoting approximately 5% of the allowance value to the program.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? None of these have led to a fundamental shift to the industry’s approach to propulsion. Source: EIA.

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