02/15/12 12:09pm

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OIL SANDS/KEYSTONE XL

TransCanada extends Keystone pipeline schedule to 2015 (via Canada.com)

EU vote on tar sands law to label fuel as more polluting expected on February 23 (via Reuters)

This land was your land, now it’s our land: Keystone XL and eminent domain (via StateImpact Texas)

GREEN BUSINESS

EU green energy sector powers through one million jobs mark (via BusinessGreen)

KPMG says ‘hidden’ environmental costs to double every 14 years (via GreenBiz)

Investors warm to climate forms seeking resource efficiency (via Bloomberg)

Which US utilities get the highest sustainability scores? (via Sustainable Business)

OIL/GASOLINE

White House won’t take tapping strategic oil reserve off the table (via The Hill)

RENEWABLES

Solar industry bloodbath leads to another bankruptcy (via CNET)

China has built almost half the world’s wind power (via Greentech Media)

US solar projects rise 67% in Fourth Quarter amid price drop (via Bloomberg)

EFFICIENCY

How to cut a home (energy bill) in half (via Greenbang)

90% of home building will have green features by 2016 (via Sustainable Business)

NATURAL GAS/FRACKING

Salazar says fracking rules coming in ‘a few weeks’ (via Houston Chronicle)

Gas well inspections to be required after fracking, Salazar says (via Bloomberg)

NUCLEAR

Iran leader expected to announce advances in nuclear program (via New York Times)

CLEAN TECH

Batteries prices to drop by half, rival gas peaker plants by 2016 (via Bloomberg)

Obama 2012 budget proposes higher tax credit for plug-in cars (via Washinton Post)

CLIMATE

Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate science (via The Guardian)

POLITICS

House to debate transportation bill in pieces (via The Hill)

Citing Keystone, drilling, Obama threatens highway bill veto (via Houston Chronicle)

John Boehner punts highway bill until after recess (via Politico)

OPINION

Wesley Clark: make solar energy a military mission (via Forbes)

Obama’s pitch on energy (via New York Times)

In the House, a transportation train wreck (via Los Angeles Times)

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