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U.S. Solar Market Blooms, Challenges Remain

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Ucilia Wang
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March 10, 2011   

Federal lawmakers are fight over budget and programs that would hamper the U.S. solar market, so any numbers to show the solar industry's contribution to the economy will help. So here comes a report released Thursday by the Solar Energy Industries Association that showed the U.S. solar market grew 67 percent to reach $6 billion in 2010 from $3.6 billion in 2009.

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100 percent renewable energy possible by 2030

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Megan Treacy
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Mon Jan 31, 12:42 pm ET

 

                                                                                                                      

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China Issues Warning on Climate and Growth

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Andrew Jacobs
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Published: February 28, 2011

BEIJING — China’s environment minister on Monday issued an unusually stark warning about the effects of unbridled development on the country’s air, water and soil, saying the nation’s current path could stifle long-term economic growth and feed social instability

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Polar ice loss quickens, raising seas

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Richard Black
Polar ice loss quickens, raising seas
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Environment correspondent, BBC News

The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than its southern counterpart

Ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland has accelerated over the last 20 years, research shows, and will soon become the biggest driver of sea level rise.

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China Overtakes Japan As World's Second-Biggest Economy

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14 February 2011 

 BBC News

Japan's economy was worth $5.474 trillion (£3.414 trillion) at the end of 2010, figures from Tokyo have shown. China's economy was closer to $5.8 trillion in the same period.

Japan has been hit by a drop in exports and consumer demand, while China has enjoyed a manufacturing boom.

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