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		<title>Trade Restrictions on Bluefin Tuna and Polar Bears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DOHA, Qatar – Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland today said the United States will support trade restrictions on bluefin tuna, polar bears, and imperiled corals and sharks among other proposals at the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/16/trade-restrictions-on-bluefin-tuna-and-polar-bears/</link>
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		<title>Solar Installations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The photovoltaic (PV) market now has an eye-popping, interactive bevy of maps and charts that can let anyone know where PV panels are being installed, how big they are, how much they cost and how fast the industry is booming.
Interested in where PV is installed in the U.S. and how it has grown over time? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/16/solar-installations/</link>
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		<title>Advances In Hybrid Electric</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An advancement in hybrid electric vehicle technology is providing powerful benefits beyond transportation.
Researchers at DOE&#8217;s&#8217;s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed, fabricated and demonstrated a PHEV traction drive power electronics system that provides significant mobile power generation and vehicle-to-grid support capabilities.
&#8220;The new technology eliminates the separate charging mechanism typically used in PHEVs, reducing both cost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/15/advances-in-hybrid-electric/</link>
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		<title>Bust the Hump in Santa Monica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The plan to bust the Hump restaurant in Santa Monica was launched months ago when Sea Shepherd Outreach Coordinator Zoli Teglas first told me about a Santa Monica restaurant serving whale meat. I thought he was joking.
But it was not a joke, and Zoli set about organizing a sting operation recruiting Charles Hambleton from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/12/bust-the-hump-in-santa-monica/</link>
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		<title>Reduce U.S. Consumption of Petroleum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The price of oil is currently hovering near $80 per barrel, but that doesn&#8217;t include the potential economic costs to the United States that would be caused by disruptions in oil supply, according to a recent discussion paper by Resources for the Future (RFF), an independent research group. That report estimated the oil security premium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/10/reduce-u-s-consumption-of-petroleum/</link>
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		<title>Energy-Efficient Home Heating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HARRISBURG, PA &#8212; Starting in April, funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will make it possible for tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians to reduce their energy consumption and save money through a new rebate program for home heating equipment, Governor Edward G. Rendell said today.
The $11 million program will provide rebates of between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/10/energy-efficient-home-heating/</link>
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		<title>Energy Efficiency Retrofit Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON&#8211;In his State of the Union address, the President called on Congress to pass a program of incentives for homeowners who make energy efficiency investments in their homes. Today, while touring a training facility at Savannah Technical College, the President outlined more details of a new “HOMESTAR” program that would help create jobs by encouraging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/08/energy-efficiency-retrofit-program/</link>
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		<title>Coal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the role of coal in the United States?
Due to its relatively low cost and abundance, coal is used to generate about half of the electricity consumed in the United States. Coal is the largest domestically-produced source of energy. Coal use, however, results in higher amounts of carbon dioxide per unit of energy than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/06/coal/</link>
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		<title>Take a Nanooze Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new long-term exhibition at the Walt Disney World Resort® in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., will bring visitors face to face with the nanoworld.
Housed at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot®, the exhibition Take a Nanooze Break features a series of interactive, continually updated displays that allow visitors to manipulate models of molecules, study everyday items at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/02/take-a-nanooze-break/</link>
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		<title>$1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DOE announced on February 22 its conditional commitments for more than $1.37 billion in loan guarantees to BrightSource Energy, Inc. in support of the construction and start-up of three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants (CSP) in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California. The loan guarantee is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buylow.com/environment/2010/03/01/1-4-billion-in-loan-guarantees-to-brightsource-energy/</link>
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