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The biggest story to break in the clean energy world in the last few days is certainly the allegation that China is breaking World Trade Organization rules by unfairly subsidizing its exports of

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What just a year ago seemed to be a weak alternative or a mere support beam to good carbon-reducing energy policy is now a pie-in-the-sky longshot.

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It's an interesting question for followers of both politics and climate issues: How would things have turned out if Obama had thrown his weight behind clean energy legislation instead of health care reform?

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The Center for American Progress has ranked the Top 10 states for policies that promote energy efficiency. The report cautions, however, that even those states on the list haven't fully tapped into the power of using less power.

Taylorville Illinois Energy Center, a proposed "clean coal" power plant. Image credit:Illinois Times

Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves.

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TreeHugger joined our friends at Wild Wonders of Europe in putting out the call for signatures on a FaceBook petition to Save Lake Skadar. Thanks to all of you who signed, the strategy is bearing fruits.

It should be unthinkable that in the wake of the worst oil disaster in history, the Senate has not yet passed a bill that would hold BP accountable for the damage they have wreaked on Gulf communities and businesses.  

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Well, the dust is still settling from the massive failure in the Senate to produce a meaningful energy bill -- fingers are being pointed, everyone's angry, and there's a

Okay, so I've been up in arms about the official demise of the climate bill in the Senate. I took pains to document who was responsible for killing it.

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The news that reverberated around the web yesterday was hardly unexpected -- the climate bill, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally announced was officially dead, was on its way out for a long time.