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Patriot Ledger - NORWELL - Stephen Gatto sounds like a preacher when he talks about ethanol and its promise as a cheap, renewable energy source. Active in the alternative energy business since 1992, Gatto is no recent convert to the cause. As his Norwell-based ...

Belfast Telegraph - The Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan is to attend the launch of a new climate change movement in Dublin later today. The Student Action on Climate Change campaign, which is supported by the Union of Students in Ireland, is aimed ...

San Francisco Gate - Turning off the lights is going to be politically as well as romantically correct tonight, as San Francisco seeks to send yet another message to the world. It's something called Lights Out San Francisco and, precisely at 8 p.m., the entire city is ...

St. Petersburg Times - ORLANDO - The Florida Energy Commission on Friday delayed key votes on greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy and car pollution standards - halted by outcries from utility companies and disagreement among its own members. The commission must ...

Washington Post - One year ago, a 32-year-old trader at a giant hedge fund named Amaranth held huge sway over the price the country paid for natural gas. Trading on unregulated commodity exchanges, he made risky bets that led to the fund's collapse -- and, according ...

San Francisco Gate - George Clooney will become an executive board member of a new Swiss energy company that will develop environmentally friendly techniques for car motors and other devices, the billionaire who is setting up the firm said Saturday. The new company will ...

San Francisco Gate - del.icio.us Venture capital firms poured nearly $900 million - a record - into U.S. startups developing clean and green energy systems in the three months that ended Sept. 30, according to a report out today. The total flow of dollars to all U.S ...

Chicago Tribune - NEW YORK - Jim Ammons grumbles to himself every time he fills up his Ford Expedition, but he says gas prices would have to almost quadruple to $10 a gallon before he'd ditch his SUV. Still, paying $55 to fill his 20 gallon tank isn't easy for the ...

CNBC - WASHINGTON - Solar power, still a tiny fraction of the energy used today, may be heading closer to the mainstream _ if a display on the National Mall over the past week is any indication. Twenty universities brought solar homes to Washington ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - It's as if a light went on. Eight years ago, PennFuture had to scour Pennsylvania to find clean, renewable energy trend-setters for the advocacy group's annual "green power" awards. Now they're all over the place. This year's luncheon honored wind ...