ClimateWire http://www.climatewire.net The Premier Information Source for Professionals Who Track Environmental and Energy Policy. en-us Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 The Obama administration announced plans yesterday to create a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service. The proposed entity would provide "user-friendly" information to help governments and businesses adapt to climate change, creating a central federal source of information on everything from projections of sea level rise to maps of the nation's best sites for wind and solar power. SPOTLIGHT Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/1 This is the year that the money will flow and jobs will grow from the Energy Department's $80 billion in seed money investments in clean energy. But what happens after… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/2 Redwood City, Calif.-based Silver Spring Networks plugged into the heavy stream of venture capital funding flowing toward smart-grid development in 2009. The $105 million investment it secured in December topped… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/3 A U.S. environmental nonprofit group has developed a partnership with China's Ministry of Finance to study sustainable development policies and launch "clean" energy demonstration projects. The partnership between the Washington-based… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/4 Over the next decade, Japan will have to figure out how to cut more carbon from an economy that has picked nearly all the "low-hanging fruit" of energy efficiency. Now,… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/5 SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco residents will be able to pay for water conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy home improvements through their property taxes, under legislation Mayor Gavin Newsom… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/6 After a collapse in carbon prices, the European Union's Emission Trading System is failing to rebound, members of the British Parliament warned in a report out yesterday. To help boost… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/7 A scientific network formed last fall by India's environment ministry will contribute formally to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to India's prime minister. Though individual Indian… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/8 Massachusetts can expect to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions more than 18 percent below 1990 levels in the next decade, according to a draft technical report released by the state… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/9 A coalition of shareholders of BP PLC wants to reassess the impact of its controversial Canadian oil sands project at the company's annual meeting next month, according to a resolution… TODAY'S STORIES Tue Feb 09 09:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/rss/2010/02/09/10