GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — An alternative energy plant is being proposed for Green Bay that would turn trash into electricity. Oneida Seven Generations has been searching several months for a home for its biomass plant, which would generate electricity ...

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By BEN FELLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s planned loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the United States in almost three decades is part of a broad shift in energy strategy to ...

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M. Scott Carter Dolan Media Newswires Oklahoma City — The market for alternative energy will grow so much over the next two decades that it may generate more than 37 million new jobs and could produce $4.2 trillion in new ...

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Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — An ongoing remodeling project at Mystic Lake casino in Prior Lake is bringing riches that slot machines and roulette tables can’t offer: construction job opportunities for people in Indian country, where unemployment far ...

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Bradley Brooks AP Writer Rio de Janeiro — Brazil, long proud of its push to develop renewable energy and wean itself off oil, has a bad case of fossil-fuel fever. An enormous offshore field in territorial waters — the biggest ...

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Glenn Adams AP Writer Township 8, Range 3, ME — Silent surroundings almost tease the ears as clouds skitter across the top of this eastern corner of Maine. The wind, barely audible, swishes through beech and fir trees crowding the ...

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Oskar Garcia AP Writer Las Vegas — Hiring in the alternative energy industry will pick up in the next 12 months, but it will take longer than that for so-called green jobs to become a bigger part of the U.S. ...

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