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</span>Micronesia has initiated a legal challenge to extended life for a Czech coal plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Other emitters are liable to similar suits under international law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0524-hance_micronesia_law.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0524-hance_micronesia_law.html</font></a></p>
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</span>New York State has sued the federal government, asking that permission to produce natural gas by fracking in the Delaware Basin be withheld until the environmental impact has been gauged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/31/us-natgas-newyork-lawsuit-idUSTRE74U5O420110531?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/31/us-natgas-newyork-lawsuit-idUSTRE74U5O420110531?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29</font></a></p>
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</span>72% of CEOs who have undertaken sustainability projects in the US, UK, and China say they have exceeded expectations, and 4% say they have not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Reluctance to undertake such projects can be ideological, at least in the US (an ideology of resolute ignorance?); readiness to embrace sustainability is often motivated ethically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2073491/exclusive-chief-execs-reveal-sustainability-projects-smashing-expectations?WT.rss_f=&WT.rss_a=Exclusive%3A+Chief+execs+reveal+sustainability+projects+are+smashing+expectations"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2073491/exclusive-chief-execs-reveal-sustainability-projects-smashing-expectations?WT.rss_f=&WT.rss_a=Exclusive%3A+Chief+execs+reveal+sustainability+projects+are+smashing+expectations</font></a></p>
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</span>In the next 20 years, modernization of the US power grid will cost up to $476 billion and save up to $2 trillion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-utilities-smartgrid-epri-idUSTRE74N7O420110524?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-utilities-smartgrid-epri-idUSTRE74N7O420110524?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29</font></a></p>
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</span>Over the last decade the annual world growth rate of installed solar power has been 40%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Last year it more than doubled, and may be expected to continue to gather momentum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/05/for-solar-supplementsolars-outlook-stays-bright??cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-June1-2011"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/05/for-solar-supplementsolars-outlook-stays-bright??cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-June1-2011</font></a></p>
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</span>Vermont has established a process for registering a home solar system (smaller than 5 kilowatts) which cuts the time and expense (average, $2,500 for permitting) associated with installations elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The state has also established a net metering standard of $.20 per kilowatt hour for solar energy added to the grid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/05/vermont-enacts-first-in-nation-solar-registration?cmpid=WNL-Friday-May27-2011"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/05/vermont-enacts-first-in-nation-solar-registration?cmpid=WNL-Friday-May27-2011</font></a></p>
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</span>World carbon emissions are rising and close to what they should be in 2020 if we wish to avoid 2° of warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0531-hance_carbonemissions.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0531-hance_carbonemissions.html</font></a></p>
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</span>Germany will cease to use nuclear power by 2022, joining Japan in a move to renewable power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Switzerland made a similar decision last week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110530/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_germany_nuclear_power"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110530/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_germany_nuclear_power</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>Oxfam reports that climate change will contribute to more than doubling of world food prices in the next 20 years unless preventive action is taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Food prices have doubled in the last 20 years, and one of seven people have too little to eat now.
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