11/29/11 11:12am

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CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT/EMISSIONS

Climate Talks Open Amid Funding Spat (via The Wall Street Journal)

Canada refuses to confirm Kyoto withdrawal (via The Associated Press)

World on track for nearly 11-degree temperature rise, energy expert says (via The Washington Post)

Most dire global warming forecasts unlikely, study finds (via The Washington Post)

Hurricane Season Spawns 19 Storms in Third-Most Active Year (via Bloomberg)

More extreme weather expected as planet warms: U.N. (via Reuters)

UTILITIES/TRANSMISSION/GRID

Will the Lights Stay On in Texas and New England? (via The New York Times Green Blog)

Democratic aides cite report in saying EPA air rules won’t threaten electric reliability (via Fuel Fix)

OIL/GASOLINE/DRILLING

Additional violations in Gulf of Mexico oil spill (via Politico)

BP Pipeline Rupture May Force Company to Pay More for 2006 Spill in Alaska (via Bloomberg)

BP’s Macondo legal troubles may last until 2014 (via Fuel Fix)

Houston researchers receive funding to reduce risks of offshore drilling (via Fuel Fix)

NATURAL GAS/FRACKING

State: Pa. Study misstated danger to water near drilling sites (via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Wyoming agency delays gas flaring policy (via Trib.com)

KEYSTONE XL/OIL SANDS

UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project (via The Guardian)

Goolsbee Says U.S. Opponents of TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Are Naive (via Bloomberg)

AUTOS/TRANSPORTATION

GM offers Volt owners free loaners to ease probe fears (via The Detroit News)

GM outlines further steps on battery safety (via Green Car Congress)

Toyota aims to take on EVs with plug-in Prius hybrid (via Reuters)

Panasonic to supply batteries for Toyota Prius hybrid (via Reuters)

BIOFUELS

US Carbon Storage System Breaks New Ground (via Discovery News)

POLITICS

Congressman Fred Upton appointee worked for firm that helped Solyndra obtain federal grant (via MLive.com)

With Ken Salazar, peering into the Department of the Interior (via The Washington Post)

Michael Bromwich says his oil industry savvy 'could fit in a thimble' when he was named offshore drilling regulator (via NOLA.com)

COAL/MINING

IG Report: MSHA not going after coal industry’s ‘scofflaw violators’ for unpaid safety and health fines (via The Charleston Gazette)

SOLAR/WIND/RENEWABLES

China solar executives aim to avoid trade war with U.S. (via Reuters)

BrightSource Strikes World's Biggest Solar Energy Storage Deal (via Forbes)

Administration pitches new rules to simplify home building, energy development on tribal lands (via The Washington Post)

NYSE, Bloomberg Form Regional Indexes to Follow Renewable Energy (via Bloomberg)

NUCLEAR

Limerick nuclear plant license renewal challenged (via Times Online)

OPINION/ANALYSIS

GM’s Volt Battery Fires Threaten to Knock ‘Moon Shot’ Off Target (via Bloomberg Businessweek)

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