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After nine years, countless reviews and two administrations, the the Cape Wind Project finally gets the green light from the White House. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the plan for the country’s first offshore windfarm that has divided the people of Massachusetts, but the fight is still not over. Source: Clean Skies News

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Analysts speaking at GreenTechMedia’s Solar Summit 2010 event in Arizona give their views on the outlook for solar photovoltaic (PV) energy in 2010. Source: GreenTechMedia

In an unusual alliance, Democrat and Republican representatives are co-sponsoring a bill that extends tax credits for US ethanol producers. Clean Skies News’ Dan Goldstein also reports how an associated import tariff on Brazilian ethanol is avoided via a Caribbean tax loophole. Source: Clean Skies News

Beijing city officials tackle rubbish tip stench using deodorant cannons and odor-eating sheets. Capture techniques are also used to collect the foul-smelling gas from under these sheets for electricity generation. Source: Reuters

The Renewable Fuels Reinvestment Act, introduced in the US House by Representatives Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and John Shimkus (R-IL) last week, would extend ethanol tax credits for another five years. However, backers of ethanol face an uphill battle, as the proposal has both reignited the fuel versus food debate and intensified scrutiny of the EPA’s regulations on the environmental impact of corn-based ethanol. Source: Clean Skies News

In rural China, a Sichuan village is pioneering a biogas project that authorities hope will help reduce the country’s soaring CO2 emissions and ease the region’s chronic smog problem. Source: Reuters

Clean Skies News talks to experts in the wind and renewables industries affected by Recovery Act funding and how it impacts U.S. jobs. The act is aiding both foreign and domestic companies – but at what cost? Source: Clean Skies News

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and representatives from six mid-Atlantic states meet in Washington to lay the groundwork for wind development off the East coast. Salazar says he will streamline the permit process for offshore alternative energy. Source: Clean Skies News

Renewable energy leaders want the tax credits contained in the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be extended for a further three years to encourage private financing and new investment in renewable energy projects. Source: Clean Skies News

RETECH 2010 is “one of the largest concentrations of clean energy technology under one roof.” The event is put on by the American Council on Renewable Energy, whose goal is to influence lawmakers and get financing for clean energy companies and projects. Clean Skies News takes an early tour around the show, reviewing a portable wind turbine, a solar panel… and a hybrid Diesel Big Rig. Source: Clean Skies News