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• Palin talks economic worries in rural Ohio
McCain's campaign has worked to tap into former Clinton supporters and play up Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden's gaffe, where he said he opposed coal energy. "Mine, baby, mine," the crowd chanted, adapting Palin's "drill, baby, drill ...
• Exit poll: conservatives ahead in Lithuania vote
Many Lithuanians claim that shutting down the Ignalina plant, which gives them energy independence, would leave them vulnerable to Russia, an unreliable energy supplier. If victorious, Paksas, an impeached former president, and Viktor Uspaskich, who ...
• Economic woes could curtail action on warming
Clearly it is somewhere down the totem pole given the economic realities we are facing," said Tom Williams, a spokesman for Duke Energy Corp., an electricity producer that has supported federal mandates on greenhouse gases. Duke is a member of the U.S
• NJ plans to become a world leader in wind power
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - New Jersey is powering up an ambitious plan to become a world leader in the use of wind-generated energy. Gov. Jon Corzine says the Garden State is tripling the amount of wind power it plans to use by 2020 to 3,000 megawatts ...
• Geothermal backers say it's their time to shine
RENO, Nev. - An unusual combination of economic and environmental forces have created a "perfect storm" that could help geothermal shed its back-seat status to its renewable cousins wind and solar energy, experts said at an international conference ...