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• Utility savings gets bump by rebate, incentives
  Minnesota utilities customers are saving enough electricity to power about 120,000 homes for a year through a rebate program that encourages energy-related improvements to homes.June 21, 2011
• Regulators weaken safety rules to accommodate nuclear power industry
  Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an AP investigation found.June 20, 2011
• U of M power plant going greener
  The University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis quite literally runs on lots and lots of steam. It's used for heating in the winter, and powers equipment that provides air conditioning in the summer. That steam is created at a power plant fired by coal and natural gas. But because of concerns over pollution, U of M officials say they're going to drastically reduce the amount of coal burned at the facility near downtown Minneapolis.June 3, 2011
• Minn. AG seeks end to CenterPoint tiered gas rates
  Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is asking the state Public Utilities Commission to suspend a CenterPoint Energy pilot rate pricing program in which customers are charged progressively more as their gas usage increases.June 1, 2011
• Xcel Energy CEO announces retirement
  Richard Kelly, the chief executive officer of Xcel Energy, has announced he will be retiring from the utility company in August.May 18, 2011
• Obama calls for an end to tax breaks for oil, gas industries
  Exxon Mobil Corp. this week reported nearly $11 billion in profits for the first quarter of this year. Competitors also had huge gains.April 30, 2011
• Future of bio materials topic of Moorhead conference
  Business leaders, researchers and investors are meeting Wednesday in Moorhead to talk about the future of bio materials in the region.April 27, 2011
• Oil firms seek to prove they can contain spills
  A year after the disaster at BP's Macondo well, the bar for Gulf drilling permits has been raised.April 19, 2011
• China faces the threat of its own Fukushima
  At least 32 plants in operation or under construction in Asia are at risk of one day being hit by a tsunami, nuclear experts and geologists warn.April 19, 2011
• Dem. report: carcinogens injected into wells
  Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said. The chemicals are injected during hydraulic fracturing, a process used to allow access to natural gas reserves previously considered uneconomical.April 17, 2011
• Despite no new plants, Minn. company still part of the nuclear process
  A factory in Hutchinson is about to ship a huge crane overseas. The crane is key to a new crop of nuclear reactors that, for now, aren't welcome here.April 15, 2011
• Authorities now say Japan's nuclear disaster reaches Chernobyl level
  The level 7 -- the highest level on the internation scale -- signifies a "major accident" with "wider consequences" than the previous level, according to the standards scale.April 11, 2011
• USDA program seeks to increase use of E-85 fuel
  The federal government wants to increase production and use of a higher blend of ethanol fuel by giving financial assistance to gas stations that install more pumps for the fuel, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced.April 9, 2011
• Xcel Energy pulls out of wind farm plan over rare bird concerns
  The whooping crane and piping plover puts plans for the $400 million, 150-megawatt Merricourt Wind Project on hold.April 7, 2011
• What's the future of renewable energy?
  President Obama has called for America to cut its oil imports by one-third by 2025, and to get 80 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources by 2035. Does America have the technology, and the political will, to make this vision a reality?Midmorning, April 7, 2011

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