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• Chesapeake Energy CEO forced to sell company stock
OKLAHOMA CITY - Aubrey K. McClendon, the billionaire chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp., has sold "substantially all" of his stock in the company over the past three days in order to meet margin loan calls, the company said Friday. Chesapeake ...
• 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 ...
• Nuclear renewal spurs demand for engineers
TROY, N.Y. - Jackie Young was always good at math and science, but when she started college she never figured she'd end up pursuing a career in nuclear energy. Then professors at the University of Tennessee's nuclear engineering department briefed ...
• Why Clean Tech Is Taking Biotech's Shine
But when he decided to start his own company based on pharmaceutical discoveries, he made a switch to a field many might find surprising: emerging alternative energy. Beeley is not alone in looking beyond biopharmaceuticals for opportunities in clean ...