WASHINGTON - January 27 - The Senate Finance Committee today will begin marking up its version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which includes such green initiatives as extending the production tax credit for wind projects through 2012, allowing businesses flexibility in claiming tax credits over a five-year period, and increasing the amount of tax credits available for residential renewable energy and energy efficiency systems. On Wednesday, the House will consider a similar version of the recovery plan that the House Ways and Means Committee passed last week.

WASHINGTON - January 16 - The Cape Wind project, a first-of-its-kind utility-scale offshore wind energy facility, today cleared its last environmental review before it can start building and begin repowering thousands of American homes in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

SAN FRANCISCO - December 22 - New energy projections from Federal and California agencies show the LNG speculative bubble is over, according to a West Coast-wide coalition of organizations opposing dependence on foreign Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

WASHINGTON - December 22 - Ocean energy has the potential to create tens of thousands of jobs in the United States and generate as much as 10 percent of the nation's demand for electricity, the equivalent of all hydroelectric energy in the U.S. today. This good news comes from a growing and diverse coalition who recently presented a roadmap for harnessing the power of the ocean to transition teams from the incoming Obama administration. The document details how to fix the confusing  - and sometimes contradictory - array of federal regulations that now govern the industry.