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An interesting project Xcel Energy is testing in Colorado marries solar power and coal at a power plant to try and cut down amount of greenhouse gas being emitted. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

The Carbfix Project, currently ongoing in Iceland, is fighting climate change by testing an idea to remove excess greenhouse gas from the air around us and store it safely underground. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Sites in Canada, Norway, and Greenland (here) were examined. Photo: Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Trondheim via flickr. Most of the time when the words ‘thawing permafrost‘ and ‘greenhouse gas’ appear in a headline together it naturally leads to talking about methane, but not this time. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63311Z20100405?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=…Read the full story on TreeHugger

What We Can Learn from RGGI Around this time last year, as talks in Congress about how to curb carbon and give clean energy and jobs a boost were intensifying, I briefly exhorted Obama to take a gander at the cap and trade system already up and running in the United States. Called the Regional [...]