01/16/12 12:30pm

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EMISSIONS/CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT

Beautiful struggle: Martin Luther King and the fight for the environment (via Grist)

California and Quebec working on joint carbon auction (via Platts)

Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms (via Los Angeles Times)

India, China, Brazil, Japan, other non-Arctic countries want a voice on Arctic Council (via Green Car Congress)

Warming Arctic may be causing cooler inters in Eastern U.S., Europe (via Climate Central)

2012 California wildfire season could be worst yet (via NBC Southern California)

OIL/GASOLINE

Oil prices, Iran are increasingly sources of concern (via Washington Post)

Oil India plans to buy shale gas assets in U.S., Australia (via Wall Street Journal)

Record $86B in 2011 US oil and gas upstream deals, led by unconventional sector with $62B (via Green Car Congress)

U.S. average gasoline and diesel prices over $3 per gallon throughout 2011 (via U.S. EIA)

Defiant Iran says Asian oil customers stay loyal (via Reuters)

Shell’s Arctic drilling plan clears hurdle (via New York Times)

Cameron in Saudi says world will keep open oil route (via Reuters)

RENEWABLES

Co-generation system planned to upgrade Capitol campus (via The Hill)

3 GW of solar in China in 2012? (via Greentech Media)

Japan gas companies ramping up sales of home fuel cell units amid uncertainty over power supplies (via Green Car Congress)

Clean energy makes big strides, but just how sustainable is the growth? (via GreenBiz)

Project to pour water into volcano to make power (via Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Associated Press)

China to raise share of power from non-fossil fuels, premier says (via Bloomberg)

U.S., Calif officials fast-track approval of 6 solar and wind farms (via NASDAQ/Dow Jones Newswires)

NATURAL GAS/FRACKING

Shale gas drilling regulation better left to the state, scientist says (via Houston Chronicle)

Company cautions against linking well, Ohio quakes (via Yahoo News!/Associated Press)

EPA Chief says more data needed on Dimock’s water (via StateImpact Pennsylvania)

Unlocking the secrets behind hydraulic fracturing (via New York Times)

EPA seeks outside review of ‘fracking’ pollution report (via The Hill)

Exporting natural gas could boost jobs, profits – and your bills (via Houston Chronicle)

TRANSPORTATION

U.S. plug-in vehicle interest driven down by high price tags (via Autoblog Green)

Consumer advocates tout proposed U.S. fuel economy standards as a cost saver (via Autoblog Green)

Top 6 new electric vehicles and hybrid cars hitting the streets in 2012 (via Inhabitat)

Plans for high-speed rail are slowing down (via Washington Post)

CLEAN TECH

How the Internet of things could make the world safer and greener (via GigaOm)

Cheap zinc air battery promises beefier power grid (via CNET)

Stealth smart grid company hopes to revolutionize demand response (via AOL Energy)

Smart grids called vulnerable to hackers (via Houston Chronicle)

OIL SANDS/KEYSTONE XL

Keystone XL pipeline would be hard to kill, analysts say (via Los Angeles Times)

As deadline nears, friends and foes of Keystone XL pipeline step up campaigns (via Washington Post)

COAL

Why railroads care about coal exports (via Grist)

GREEN BUILDING

Yahoo! study finds the American dream home is turning green (via GreenBiz)

Mandatory roof gardens urged as solutions to Singapore flooding (via Yale’s e360)

Global green to give 8 US cities free sustainability consultations (via Inhabitat)

NUCLEAR

“Crunch time” at troubled nuclear fuel plant (via Washington Post)

POLITICS

White House sends GOP another batch of Solyndra documents (via The Hill)

White House plan would move NOAA to Interior (via The Hill)

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