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Eighty-one percent of research universit ies say budget sequestration cuts are directly hampering their

scientific research activities, according

to

a new survey released Monday.

Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) are

the

latest

to

back

the

Master Limited

Partnership Parity Act, S 795, which

would

extend the ability to establish MLPs to clean energy firms.

MLPs allow companies to establish partnerships

whose

shares are traded similarly

to

traditional stock

but

that

are

not

taxed

at

the

corporate

level;

the structure is popular

in

the

oil and gas industry.

CarCharging has installed the high-voltage devices, some dressed up

to

mimic a gasoline pump, in

underground parking garages,

where

drivers plug in and pay for the electricity through a device

that

resembles a credit card. But the price, 49 cents a kilowatt-hour - roughly four times what people pay

for electricity in their homes - often makes the electric car more expensive per mile than the gasoline

car

it

replaced.

The boom in oil

from

shale formations in

recent

years has generated a

lot

of discussion that the

United

States could

eventually

return to energy self-sufficiency, but according

to

a

report

released Tuesday by

the International

Energy Agency,

production of

such oil in

the

United States and worldwide

will provide

only

a temporary respite

from

reliance on the Middle East.

Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) will not recall its Model Selectric car

despite

three vehicle fires

that

raised

safety questions and

hurt

the automaker's stock price, CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday.

The U S Department of Energy is making

good

on the second phase of a plant fuel research

project,

pumping another 3 million

into

the study led by Dr. Joshua Yuan, Texas A&M Agrilife Research plant

pathologist.

Maryland has asked

for

Denmark's help in developing

offshore wind

farms, officials said. Denmark

is the

home of

the

world's

biggest offshore

wind farm

developer, DONG Energy, and

of the top two

offshore

wind

turbine manufacturers, Siemens Wind Power and Vestas

Wind

Systems,

both of

which also have

factories in the United States.

Japan's

lawmakers

approved a first step

to weakening

the monopolies of regional

power

utilities by

setting

up

an independent body

to

coordinate supply and demand across the nation's electricity grids.

Because you can

now go

into

Home Depot, trade in [PDF] your old, incandescent Christmas lights, and

get energy-saving,

LED

replacements

at

a

discount*

-

but

only for

the

next few days.

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Climate news:

A United Nations climate panel

that

was criticized after a 2007

study

overstated

the

rate

of

glacial

melting

backtracked on global carbon-emissions estimates.

There are all sorts of things that Typhoon Haiyan highlighted about the difficulties that poorer countries

such s the Philippines will face in dealing with natural disasters s the world warms. Here's a partial

rundown.

Typhoon Haiyan has left an

estimated

10,000 dead and

hundreds of

thousands homeless in

the

Philippines. And

it

has once again underscored

for many

development experts a cruel truth about

climate change: It will hit

the

world s

poorest the

hardest.

Heather Zichal admits

her

job is unfinished. The architect of President Barack Obama's climate-change

plan, Zichal left the White House last

week

after five years s a top adviser on energy and climate

change.

Twenty

of the nation s top climate

scientists have sent a

letter to

Gov. Jerry Brown, telling him

that

his

plans

supporting

increased use

of the

controversial practice

of

hydraulic fracturing,

or

fracking, will

increase pollution and run counter to his efforts

to cut

California's global warming emissions.

A

few

weeks

after

it

finishes hosting

United

Nations talks on

limiting

fossil-fuel emissions, Poland

may

decide to

double

the

size of one of its biggest coal-burning power plants.

The world is

not

on track to limit global temperature increases to levels that

the

international

community says will stave off the worst impacts of climate change, a global energy policy organization

warned

Tuesday.

The redistribution

of

rainfall

predicted

by

climate

change

modeling is

playing

out

in real life, a new

study

by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has

found.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz pushed the president's climate action plan Monday and admonished

Congress

for

failing to address global warming. Today, more than any

t ime

in our history,

the

global

community is understanding the serious threat of climate change, Moniz said in remarks delivered at

the American Nuclear Society's 2013 winter meeting and

technology

expo in Washington.

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Florida is a swing state in presidential elections -

as

anyone who

didn t

spend the year 2000

under

a

rock knows all

too

well. It has frequently elected Democrats

as

well

as

Republicans,

often

moderates

from both parties,

at

the statewide level. And no state is

more

at risk from climate change.

Maria van der Hoeven, International Energy Agency Executive Director , comments on nations efforts

to

transform their energy industries

to

reduce dependency on fossil fuels. She commented yesterday in an

interview

in London.

While this plan is not exactly on the lips of

every

American, it is controversial enough that the EP

decided to

hold

Listening Sessions across the country.

With

these events, EP aimed

to

check the

pulse

of

America - or

at

least say

it

had really tried

to

check

the

pulse of America - before writing

the

new benchmarks.

Of all the fanciful folklore espoused by climate deniers, among the strangest is cosmoclimatology. It

posits

that

climate

change

is

not the

result

of

the

blanket

of

carbon

dioxide

we ve

pumped

into the

atmosphere. Rather, the theory goes, global warming is caused when changes in the 11-year cycle of the

sun cause the Earth

to

be bombarded by cosmic rays, which are high-energy particles, most of which

come

from deep in Outer Space.

Environment Health news:

The House Natural Resources Committee will likely approve GOP legislation Thursday

that would

block

the Interior Department from toughening regulation

of

so-called mountaintop removal coal mining

projects in Appalachia.

A group of environmental advocates and Texas landowners is urging federal regulators to block

TransCanada from starting the southern leg of its Keystone XL pipeline, while new inspections are

conducted

and

the

company's

construction

and safety practices are investigated. The

Oklahoma-to

Texas oil pipeline is nearly completed.

Robert Malsam nearly went broke in

the

1980s when corn was cheap.

So

now

that

prices are high and

he can

finally

make a

profit,

he's

not

about

to

apologize

for

ripping up

prairieland

to

plant

corn.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said Tuesday that she

would

continue

to

put pressure on the administration

to

speed

up

its review of the Keystone XL pipeline.

A draft

regulation

currently under an interagency review at the White House would allow the

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