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• Food Travels Between 1,500 and 2,500 Miles From Farm to Table - Environment News Service (ENS) 21nov2002

• Wireless Energy Transmission from Space in Earth's Future - ENS 20nov02

• How PUC Sold Out Public & Saved Utilities -  SF Chronicle 10nov02

• Europe Drives Up Gas Exports, Keeping U.S. Pump Prices Low  - Wall Street Journal 28oct02

• Power Company Lawyer also Chief of Power Grid - AP 19sep02

• The Three-and-a-half Pound Microchip: Environmental Implications of the IT Revolution -  Press Release / American Chemical Society 11jul2002

• Ethanol: More Corn Pone - Editorial / Wall Street Journal 20may2002

• California spends billions, PG&E faces bankruptcy and rates soar - SF Chronicle 23dec01

• Addicted to Oil The Economist (UK) 13dec01

• Unions split on ANWR DRILLING - Anchorge Daily News 1nov01

• PG&E to spend $1 million to fight S.F. Public Power - SF Chronicle 1nov01

• Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Annu.Rev.Energy Environ. Nov01

• A self-sufficient energy policy? -  Boston Globe 15oct01

• Fears, Again, of Oil Supplies at Risk  - (Map of US Supplies)  NY Times 14oct01

• PG&E Decreased Voltage Long Before Energy "Crisis"  - Earth Island Journal Winter01-02

• 285,600 Gallons of Oil Spilled from Alaska Pipeline  - AP 6oct01

• What the governor could do to prevent the next energy crisis  - SF Chronicle 28sep01

• Awkward Realities of Oil  - New York Times 27sep01

• Flaw in U.S./Canada Energy Plan  - Toronto Globe & Mail 17sep01

• Westerners Look to Windmills As Possible Saviors of a Way of Life  - AP 7sep01

• Economic Impact of Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Dean Baker/ Center for Economic and Policy Research 2sep01

• Professor Warns of Power Plant Woes -  Times (IN) 25aug01

• Thimmakka 'Greening South Asian Restaurants'  -  Oakland Tribune 22aug01

• Mercury Control with Sorbent Injection and COHPAC at Alabama Power E.C. Gaston - Mega Symposium Chicago, IL 20aug01

• GAO Demands Bush Surrender Cheney Records -  Washington Post 18aug01

• ASCI White Supercomputer at Livermore uses more energy than a small City - AP 15aug01

• Subsidies for Clean Coal Miss Mark  - New York Times 4aug01

• Largest Coal-Fired Energy Plant in US Spewing Clouds of Sulfuric Acid  - Dispatch Environment Reporter 3aug01

• Bush Misunderstands the Marketplace: A Market with Subsidies Isn't 'Free'  - TomPaine.com 23jul01

• EU to Hear German Case On Ecologically Produced Power  - Handelsblatt (Germany) 23jul01

• Spills and Explosions Reveal Lax Regulation of Powerful Industry  -  American-Statesman (TX) 22jul01

• How Coal Got Its Glow Back  - New York Times 22jul01

• The Coal Reality  - Editorial Journal-Courier (Louisville, KY) 18jul01

• Bush  Opposes Plan for Financing of Clean Energy Over Fossil Fuel  - New York Times 14jul01

• World Demand for Oil Will Contract In the Third Quarter, Says a Report  -  Wall Street Journal 16jul01

• RUNNING OUT OF OIL? - USGS 11jun01

• Results of Studies Assessing High Electricity Prices in California  -  United States General Accounting Office GAO-01-857 29jun01

• Fossil Fuel R&D Lessons Learned in the Clean Coal Technology Program  - GAO-01-854T Released 12jun01

• Energy: Crisis of Greed  - San Francisco Bay Guardian 5jun01

• PG&E to Double Top Execs' Pay: $17 Million in Bonuses!  -  SF Chronicle 30may01

• Bush Loosening Power Plant Controls  - Editorial / New York Times 27may01

• Clean-Coal Plan a Sooty Smoke Screen:  Old Industries Stand to Gain Most  - SF Chronicle 27may01

• More is Better, Even More is Even Better  - TomPaine.com 26may01

• Enron: Power Trader Tied to Bush Finds Washington All Ears  -  New York Times 25may01

• 'Clean Coal' an Oxymoron, Unlikely to Change for Years to Come  -  Wall Street Journal 18may01

• Those 97 Quadrillion BTUs  - Editorial / Wall Street Journal 18may01

• GOP Math 101: Cheney Energy Plan + Bush Tax Cut Plan = Bucks 4 Bush + Cheney  - SF Chronicle 9&12may01

• Cuban expert shares solar technology at Berkeley's Ecology Center  -  Berkeley Daily Planet 11may01

• A Blinkered Energy Strategy  - New York Times 6may01

• Condoleezza Rice Tanker Renamed: Chevron Redubs Ship Named for Bush Aide Condoleezza Rice Drew Too Much Attention - San Francisco Chronicle 5may2001

• Do Windmills Eat Birds? Foxes Advocate Hen Welfare  -  TomPaine.com 3may01

• Bush's National Energy Policy Summary of Recommendations May01

• PG&E - While a Utility May Be Failing, Its Owner Is Not  -  New York Times 30apr01

• Nettie Hoge & TURN Taking on Power in the name of Consumers  -  SF Chronicle 30apr01

• Ecology Center first in Bay Area to use Biodiesel in Curbside Recycling Trucks  - Restaurant Waste Oil  -  SF Chronicle 24apr01

• Coal Scores With Wager on Bush  - Washington Post 25mar01

• Energy crisis reignites talk of reopening Tire-Burning Plant  -  SFC 25mar01

• Oil Company Blamed For Rig Blast in Brazil Platform may sink in 2 days, creating spill -  LAT 17mar01

• News Analysis: Of Coal and Climates  - NYT 16may01

• Clean Coal: The Mother of all Oxymorons  - TomPaine.com 15mar01

• Inventor's clues fuel talk that ideal engine is near  -  Boston Globe 7mar01

• Bush Ties Solar Power To Drilling He wants to tap Alaska refuge  - SFC 1mar01

• Political Gifts of Coal Magnate Larry Addington to Republicans Exceed $800,000 - Herald-Leader 28feb01

• Chevron Brings Pipeline To the Caspian Sea Region  - WSJ 26feb01

• Water Diversion to Help Generate Power Amid Crisis in West Puts Salmon at Risk - WSJ 23feb01

• Environmentalists urge Lugar to oppose arctic drilling  - AP 23feb01

• BPA officials planning huge wind-power buy  -  Seattle Times 22feb01

• Alternate power options collapsing Smaller Companies Driven Out  - San Jose Mercury News 20feb01

• Congress on Collision Course With Energy Issue  -  LA Times 19feb01

• Midwest Too Dependent on Coal, Nuclear Energy  - Star Press (IN) 18feb01

• Lake Erie considered for natural gas pipeline  - AP 18feb01

• Davis Says California Will Purchase Transmission Lines to Save Utilities  - Wall Street Journal 14feb01

• California Needs Deregulation Done Right  - Daniel McFadden / Wall Street Journal 13feb01

• Energy Use Per Person: Californians Aren't Energy Hogs: Only Rhode Island, New York and Hawaii use less per person, agency says -- Texas uses most -  SF Chronicle 11feb01

• Energy Crisis or Greed Crisis? - Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D. / ENN 9feb01

• Murkowski's Non-Sustainable Energy Bill Predictably Misinformed  - Washington Post 9feb01

• Reid bill would give permanent tax credit for renewable energy  - Las Vegas Review-Journal 7feb01

• PG&E Execs' Stock Trades Could Draw SEC Scrutiny  -  SFC 2feb01

• Protests Force ISO Board To Open Meeting to Public  -  SFC 2feb01

• State OKs $10 Billion for Power CONSERVE OR ELSE: $1000-a-day fines for stores that don't comply  - SFC  2feb01

• Solar PV markets surge in the United States and Canada  - Environmental Science and Technology 1feb01

• Nader Speaks out Against Utility Bailout  -  San Jose Mercury News 31jan01

• Audit: PG&E Slow to Act Millions sent to parent firm as utility sank deeper in debt  -  SFC 31jan01

• California Senate Passes Electricity Bill Today  -  Bloomberg 31jan01

• Power Exchange Closes  -  SFC 31jan01

• Shell Urges PUC To Drop PG&E Texas-based division says private company can supply gas to state -  SFC 31jan01

• Fields of Broken Dreams Outages cause economic distress in California's heartland  -  SFC 31jan01

• Rush to build Power Plants must balance demand with environmental, community concerns  -  SFC  30jan01

• Solar Panels Give Power to The People Electricity crisis spurs new interest  -  SFC  28jan01

• California Dreaming  - Editorial / Courier Journal (Louisville, KY) 26jan01

• Jeb Bush to Bush administration: No new drilling in Gulf off Florida - AP 26jan01

• Suppliers Find It's Not Easy Being Green Most alternative energy companies have given up on California -  SFC 27jan01

• Leaders Agree on California Energy Plan -  AP 26jan01

• Chevron's Profits Jump 88%  -  SFC 25jan01

• Shell Oil To Pay $110 Mln To Resolve Oil Royalties Case  - DJNW 24jan01

• Author of Electricity Deregulation Bill Rules Out Statewide Run Sen. Peace won't try for secretary of state  - SFC  24jan01

• Enron Reports 34% Increase in Its Profits:   State's energy crisis a boon for Houston-based supplier  -  SFC 23jan01

• Alaska's spreading oil fields under new scrutiny -  Reuters 23jan01

• Administration Leaves Power Crisis in California's Hands  - NYT 23jan01

• Answers to West Coast energy crisis blowing in the Wind -  ENN 22jan01

• Plan Urges State Take Utilities' Hydro Plants -  LAT  22jan01

• Industry says legislation on power plants unnecessary  -  Republic 22jan01

• Soaring Gas and Oil Prices Boost Conoco's Profit by 70% - WSJ 22jan01

• Soaring Prices for Natural-Gas Revive Canadian Pipeline Contest  -  WSJ 22jan01

• Oil Spill Near Ecuador's Galapagos Is a 'Disaster' - Reuters 21jan01

• Norton Argues for Arctic Drilling -  Washington Post 20jan01

• Gasoline Use Fell Last Year, Oil Group Says -  NYT 20jan01

• PG&E Denies it Proposed Drastic Reductions  -  SFC 20jan01

• S.F. Sues 13 Major Power Producers City says companies manipulated market  -  SFC 19jan01

• Bush Gives Flat No to Price Caps Gov. Davis had urged relief for California  -  SFC 19jan01

• Legislature OKs PG&E Bailout $400 million rescue plan buys time -  SFC 19jan01

• Rolling Blackouts Again Hit California  - LAT 18jan01

• US wind power project to aid California electricity woes - Reuters 18jan01

• Rolling Blackouts Hit Power cut to parts of Bay Area at midday -  PG&E defaults on debt  - SFC  18jan01

• Drastic Move Averts Rolling Blackouts State turns off Water Pumps  - SFC 16jan01

• Stealthy Deal Protects Profits of PG&E's Parents -  SFC 16jan01

• Safeguards Sought for Energy Plan Lawmakers, activists warn of utility bailout -  SFC 15jan01

• Power plants opposed by neighborhoods, supported by environmentalists - AP 15jan01

• Governor Brokers Deal in Marathon DEAL: State to purchase energy from power plants -  SFC 14jan01

• State Probing Power Companies SCHEME?: Investigating gas reserves sales profits  -  SFC 14jan01

• Alameda Produces Its Own Energy Island residents sustain low rates -  SFC 13jan01

• State Hopes Are High For Energy Deal Davis seeking 3-year pact to stabilize power prices -  SFC 13jan01

• Western governors confer on energy crisis  -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 12jan01

• PG&E to Cut 1,000 Jobs - CONSUMERS TO SUFFER - SFC 12jan01

• Wyden, Smith ask Senate inquiry of BP Amoco gas-price actions -  The Oregonian 12jan01

• Wind Farm to Supply 11 Western States - AP 11jan01

• U.S. Head Of Energy Regulation Resigns Likely successor pledges to ease California's plight -  SFC 11jan01

• World's largest wind farm to power 70,000 homes -  AP 10jan01

• Title Block High Cost Of Power Hits S.F. Budget PUC to get little from Hetch Hetchy pact  -  SFC 10jan01

• Utilities Offered $8 Billion for Lines Transmission system sale deemed unlikely  -  SFC 10jan01

• Davis focuses on electricity crunch in State of State -  AP 9jan01

• Power on a Shoestring Humboldt State University Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT)  - SFC 8jan01

• Coyote Valley Power Plant Hearings Begin  -  SFC 8jan01

• WHAT ARE THEY HIDING ? -  SFC  7jan01

• BP Amoco Accused of Spiking West Coast Gasoline Prices - WSJ  6jan01

• White House Calls Summit On California Power Crisis - Washington Post 5jan01

• Solar Heating: Old Heating Idea Heats Up -  NYT 4jan01

• California Energy Regulators Propose Temporary Surcharge on Power Bills - WSJ 4jan01

• State Vetting 'Peaker' Power Plant Near SFO Temporary site gets less stringent pollution rules -  SFC 3jan01

• Abraham Wrong Choice for Energy Secretary - Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project 3jan01

• California's Utilities and Their Customers Clash Over Rates -  NYT 28dec00

• Bush Wants OPEC to Raise Oil Production - Reuters 22dec00

• Feds require other states to sell excess energy as reserves decline in California  -  SFC 20dec00

• Berkeley Urged to Seize Power Proposal to control city's electricity before council -  SFC 19dec00

• Spiking Energy Prices Have Put Conservation Back in Fashion , SUV Sales Down - WPWG 16dec00

• Power Board's Industry Ties May Be Cut  - SFC 15dec00

• US to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired plants - Reuters 15dec00a

• Natural Gas Prices Soar -  AP 13dec00

• New Conflict-of-Interest Claim Against PUC's Henry Duaque -  SFC 13dec00

• New Power Plant Proposed for Spot Near Livermore - SFC 13dec00

• National Lab Adds to New Mexico's Wind Power Base -  EarthVision 11dec00

• Brazil Gets Into Energy Efficiency In a Big Way - EarthVision 11dec00

• Power Gouges and Brain-Outs - Rob Morse / SF Chronicle 10dec00

• Power Stays On, But State's Darkest Days May Lie Ahead  - SFC 9dec00

• Henry Duque Won't Quit Besieged Rejects Calls for Resignation -  SFC 8dec00

• Electricity "Crisis" Caused by 1996 Deregulation - FTCR 8dec00

• DOE offers $95 million for coal projects to prevent brownouts - Reuters 8dec00

• France sets ambitious target for renewable power - Reuters 8dec00

• STAGE 3 EMERGENCY Rolling blackouts narrowly averted by shutting down huge pumps - SFC 8dec00

• New financing instrument for sustainable energy projects announced - Capitol Reports 7dec00

• Davis' Power Proposals Irk Watchdogs - TURN - SFC 2dec00

• Consumer Activist Pushes Ballot Initiative To Undo California-Power Deregulation - WSJ 29nov00

• Electricity Regulation Proposed for State Ballot Consumer group wants agency to run power grid - SFC 29nov00

• Need More Electricity? The Answer Is More Windmills - NYT 26nov00

• PG&E Proposes Huge Increase to recover unforeseen power costs - SFC 23nov00

• 22 Planned Power Plants could help meet the state's growing demand for electricity - SFC 22nov00

• $2 Billion Energy Reserve Proposed California fund combat exorbitant increases - SFC 21nov00

• PG&E Sell-Off Called Risky For Environment - SFC 21nov00

• High Oil Prices to Continue As World Demand Increases - WSJ 20nov00

• We Didn't Ask for Energy Deregulation and We're Not Paying for It - Nettie Hoge, Exec. Dir. TURN

• Shell to Invest up to $300 Million In China National Offshore Oil - DJN 14nov00

• Turkmenistan-Russia Gas Deal Negates U.S.-Backed Pipe Plan - WSJ 14nov00

• New Angle to PG&E Bid to Raise Rates Utility files complaint in federal court -  SFC 9nov00

• Nation tipping its hat to Rockies for natural gas  - AP 9nov00

• Caspian oil pipeline to proceed U.S. envoy says - AP 9nov00

• California Public Utilities Commission  accuses power generators of stonewalling investigation  - AP 6nov00

• Surplus Dreams Candidates focused on dividing up prosperity, not confronting an energy crisis  - SFC 5nov00

• Tri-Valley Residents resist line upgrades, mini-plants -  SFC 4nov00

• US Nudges State Over Energy Prices Changes proposed in deregulation plan - SFC 2nov00

• USDA Glickman Announces $300 Million Bioenergy Program - USDA 1nov00

• Developing and Promoting Biobased Products and Bioenergy - Presidential Executive Order 12aug00

• Power Plant Plans Dropped Sites were to be Newark, San Mateo, Brisbane -  SFC 7nov00

• Untapped reserves make Rockies a target for natural gas production - AP 7nov00

• DOE Centers on Biomass Energy -  ENN 6nov00

• Fractured pipeline spills 980 barrels of crude oil in southeastern Mexico - AP 1nov00

• Oil, Gas, and More - The Scientist  30oct00

• PG&E Insists ratepayers pick up $3 billion tab for deregulated electricity -  SFC 27oct00

• Five Temporary Power Plants Being Considered- Some residents oppose Bay Area plan - SFC 26oct00

• Despite reports, well's not dry: World's oil supply will last at least 40 years, experts say - St. Paul Pioneer Press 24oct00

• Its In the Other Pocket, Stupid PG&E and Edison Cook the Books to Justify Illegal Rate Hikes  - TURN 18oct00

• PG&E's power paradox - SFE 8oct00

• FTCR  Begins Legal Process to Remove CPUC Commissioner Henry Duque from Office - FTCR 4oct00

• EPA Sees the Light on Fluorescent Bulbs New Rule will make it easier to Recycle - Environmental Health Perspectives Dec 1999

• Compact Fluorescent Lighting  - Consumer Reports Jan99

• Birds Rescued in Oil Spills Do Poorly, Study Finds: Many die within months, a survey in California reports -  New York Times 12nov1996

• Ethanol: Antitrust Probe of Archer-Daniels Puts Spotlight On Chairman Andrea’s Vast Political Influence - Wall Street Journal 11jul1995
• Ethanol Boon Shows How Archer-Daniels Gets Its Way in Washington With Low-Key Lobbying - Wall Street Journal 29dec1993

• Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger  - Oakridge National Laboratory Review 1jul1993

• Ethanol: They're Interested - Editorial / Wall Street Journal 30mar1993

• Biomass vs. Coal - Technology Newsletter Chemical Week 17jul74

• Map of Strip-Mined Areas of S.W. Indiana Source: Indiana Geologic Survey Misc. Map 15 as of 1980

   

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