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The $9995 Micro Fueler, a backyard fueling station, can create a gallon of pure ethanol from about 10 gallons of sugar.

The global carbon market more than doubled in value in 2007 to $64 billion, but that masked slow growth in actual greenhouse gas emissions cuts, according to the World Bank's carbon finance unit.

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) announced a “Green Portfolio” partnership to measure and improve the environmental performance of companies within KKR’s U.S. portfolio.

Royal Dutch Shell has pulled out of the London Array, the world's largest proposed offshore wind farm. Environmental groups and politicians criticized Shell for its decision to put its one-third stake in the £2bn project, which is projected to generate 1gw of emission-free energy—enough to power a quarter of London households—up for sale.

In recent months, China has taken center stage in the international debate over global warming. It has surpassed the United States as the world's largest source of greenhouse gases, and it became developing nations' diplomatic champion at the recent United Nations climate negotiations in Bali.

Vertus Technologies, a subsidiary of London-based Nviro Cleantech, has signed a 25-year contract with Cincinnati Bulk Terminals to install and operate a plant along the Ohio River.

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the world’s largest investor collaboration on climate change, with 385 institutional investors holding assets under management of US $57 trillion, has announced the first ever findings of its Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration.

GM partners with Mascoma Corp. to produce cellulosic ethanol from non-food source crops

China said that it had broken up a child labor ring that forced children from poor, inland areas to work in booming coastal cities, acknowledging that severe labor abuses extended into the heart of its export economy.

Rallies and marches are scheduled to take place across the city today in honor of May Day, the annual event which pays tribute to labor unions and immigrant workers.