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</span>The iron-vanadium redox flow battery is said to provide cheap, durable energy storage with relatively benign materials, and to be scalable up to grid applications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/06/22/energy-storage-technology-offers-solid-backup-to-renewables/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/06/22/energy-storage-technology-offers-solid-backup-to-renewables/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The Department of Energy provides verification of the claims of the video and further information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The new technology offers “superior performance and cost advantages unlike any other existing system.”
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</span>Ohio’s legislative attack on their efficient energy resource standard begins the pointless destruction of a successful program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Cost of the negawatts (watts which did not require generation because of the program) was $.02/watt, and the savings to Ohio ratepayers has exceeded $1 billion since 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The only apparent benefit of destroying the program is to allow the utilities for a while to continue business as usual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span><a href="http://aceee.org/blog/2014/06/ohio-sb-310-post-mortem-it-s-worse-yo"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://aceee.org/blog/2014/06/ohio-sb-310-post-mortem-it-s-worse-yo</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>France has announced a financial package intended to support energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy, which they intend to supply 40% of France’s power by 2030.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/71762"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/71762</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>According to a report by Risky Business, the US faces losses of tens of billions a year from climate disruption within the next 25 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The projections are based on past heat waves and expectations of effects such as sea level rise, and are targeted to units as small as counties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Michael Oppenheimer calls it “the most detailed ever of the potential economic effects of climate change on the U.S.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Risky Business is chaired by Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Tom Steyer.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/us-climatechange-economy-idUSKBN0EZ0AA20140624?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/us-climatechange-economy-idUSKBN0EZ0AA20140624?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">The report calculates growing areas of the US will become impossible for outdoor activity during increasing numbers of days as the century continues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/24/with-heat-and-humidity-a_n_5524219.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/24/with-heat-and-humidity-a_n_5524219.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The Supreme Court’s most recent ruling on the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gasses is largely supportive, but seems to open a path for future litigation based on an implication that such gasses are a special form of air pollution not necessarily
covered by general statements in the clean air act, and that EPA regulation is inherently “unreasonable.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-supreme-courts-latest-greenhouse-gas-ruling-is-a-97-victory-for-the-environment/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-supreme-courts-latest-greenhouse-gas-ruling-is-a-97-victory-for-the-environment/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>The World Bank finds that even climate measures short of putting a price on carbon would add $1.8-2.6 trillion a year to the world GDP by 2030.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The gains would come in crop productivity, health savings, and new jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/tackling-climate-change-would-grow-global-economy-world-bank-says"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/tackling-climate-change-would-grow-global-economy-world-bank-says</font></a><font face="Calibri">
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