Greenwire http://www.greenwire.com The Premier Information Source for Professionals Who Track Environmental and Energy Policy. en-us Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 LOS ANGELES -- Ice Energy has a novel solution for the electricity challenges of the 21st century: Make Popsicles. The company wants to freeze water at night in refrigerator-like boxes adjacent to commercial air conditioners and then thaw it during the day, when power demand is highest. This would theoretically allow AC-hungry commercial buildings in warm climates to cut energy use during heat waves, the company says, by shutting air conditioners down while still providing cool air to buildings from melting ice. SPOTLIGHT Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/1 Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, once seemed likely to attain near-saint status among scientists, but recent scandals have forced him to defend… Top Stories Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/2 The French energy company Areva SA is buying Ausra Inc., a California solar-power startup backed by high-profile venture capitalists. Perhaps best known for its nuclear power plants, Paris-based Areva has… Top Stories Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/3 Obama administration officials emerged from yesterday's White House summit on Asian carp touting a $78.5 million, 25-point plan to prevent the spread of the ravenous fish into Lake Michigan, but… Top Stories Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/4 Studies that support global climate change are a "bunch of snake oil science," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said during a public appearance yesterday in California, a state that often… Climate Change Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/5 Texas oil and natural gas producer Denbury Resources Inc. is looking to cash in on carbon dioxide it recovers from industrial plants. By mid-2011 the Plano, Texas-based company plans to… Climate Change Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/6 Ford will unveil an electric version of its award-winning Transit Connect van today, a move that is expected to create new jobs in metro Detroit and boost the small local… Clean Tech Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/7 Clearing the regulatory hurdles that allow miners to launch a new mining project in the United States takes an average of seven years, making it one of the last places… Energy Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/8 The government of Ghana blocked a deal last week that would have allowed Kosmos Energy LLC to sell its estimated $4 billion stake in the massive Jubilee oil field to… Energy Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/9 The Obama administration has chosen a California official to serve in a top U.S. EPA enforcement post. Matt Bogoshian will become deputy assistant administrator in the Office of Enforcement and… Federal Agencies Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/10 Toyota Motor Corp. has recalled 400,000 more vehicles, including some of the popular Toyota Prius cars, deepening a safety crisis that has prompted the Japanese automaker to recall more than… Business Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/11 Environmental groups and state officials have taken issue with recent private meetings between representatives of U.S. EPA and Minnesota-based 3M Co. as the agency examines new safety guidelines for chemicals… Chemicals Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/12 Environmental and commercial fishing groups asked a federal judge yesterday to reinstate water pumping restrictions in California's San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta, citing economic hardship for commercial fishers who have seen their… Natural Resources Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/13 An influential environmental group has backed away from a settlement that would remove four dams along the Klamath River to restore salmon and steelhead runs that have been partially blocked… Natural Resources Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/14 China's first national pollution census has found nearly 6 million industrial, residential and agricultural polluters, the country said today. China, the world's largest polluter, also said it may reach its… International Tue Feb 09 12:00:00 EST 2010 http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2010/02/09/15