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		<title>Activists plan anti-fracking day of action</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/05/29/activists-plan-anti-fracking-day-of-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 21:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[day of action]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fran Pavley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holly Mitchell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of using hydraulic fracturing – “fracking” – to access hard-to-reach oil and natural gas are planning actions Thursday at assemblymembers’ offices around California. Activists organized by MoveOn.org will deliver petitions in 13 Assembly districts, marking the launch of Californians Against Fracking, a coalition of 70 organizations advocating for a ban. “The gutting of Holly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silicon Valley biofuel company gets $2.5m grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advanced biofuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative fuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billion Ton Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biorefinery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cobalt Technologies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Silicon Valley company is getting a $2.5 million federal grant to develop a pilot-scale “biorefinery” that will make jet fuel out of switchgrass. The Energy Department announced the grant to Cobalt Technologies of Mountain View as part of the Obama administration’s efforts to find and use alternative fuels to lower costs and improve performance. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Senator joins Stanford energy think tank</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/01/former-senator-joins-stanford-energy-think-tank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Reicher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff  Bingaman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable portfolio standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Senator and Stanford Law School alumnus Jeff Bingaman will join Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance to develop policies to help states and local communities promote increased use of clean energy. The Steyer-Taylor Center for is a joint initiative of Stanford Law School and the Graduate School of Business to study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-pipeline protesters to target Obama in SF</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/29/anti-pipeline-protesters-to-target-obamas-in-sf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CREDO and other groups intend to protest outside President Obama’s fundraiser next Wednesday evening in San Francisco to send a message that if he’s serious about fighting climate change he must reject the Keystone XL pipeline. They’ll be targeting the $32,500-per-person Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraising dinner that Obama is headlining along with House Minority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley&#8217;s Steven Chu resigning from cabinet</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/01/berkeleys-steven-chu-resigning-from-cabinet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has announced he’ll resign from President Barack Obama’s cabinet as soon as a successor is confirmed. Chu, 64, is a Bay Area local: a former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and a University of California, Berkeley professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology. Earlier, he taught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Coast Senators urge probe of gas prices</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/27/west-coast-senators-urge-probe-of-gas-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/27/west-coast-senators-urge-probe-of-gas-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[false reporting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[manipulation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patty Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[probe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refineries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West Coast’s U.S. Senators today asked the Justice Department to do a refinery-by-refinery investigation into why gas prices spiked to more than $4 a gallon during May and October. The letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder from senators Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Senate panel to probe refineries, gas prices</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/10/10/state-senate-panel-to-probe-refineries-gas-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Leno]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With gas prices soaring and news that the Chevron Richmond refinery&#8217;s crude oil unit won’t reopen until 2013, a state Senate committee will hold a hearing next month on the safety and reliability of California’s gasoline production system and its impacts on gas prices and the economy. State Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, announced today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown, Feinstein seek action on gas prices</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/10/07/brown-feinstein-seek-action-on-gas-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary Nichols]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein today pushed for action and answers on California’s skyrocketing gas prices. Brown directed the California Air Resources Board to take emergency steps to increase the state&#8217;s gasoline supply and bring down fuel prices by immediately taking “whatever steps are necessary” to let oil refineries to make an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two area Democrats OKed &#8216;No More Solyndras&#8217; bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/09/22/two-area-democrats-oked-no-more-solyndras-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/09/22/two-area-democrats-oked-no-more-solyndras-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Northern California House Democrats sided with House Republicans last week to pass a bill called the “No More Solyndras Act” to phase out the clean energy loan-guarantee program that bankrolled the now-defunct Fremont solar manufacturer. Reps. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, and Rep. John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, were among the 22 Democrats who joined with 223 House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman flies GOP flag on energy in Bay Area</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/24/congressman-flies-gop-flag-on-energy-in-bay-area/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/24/congressman-flies-gop-flag-on-energy-in-bay-area/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Denham]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day after President Obama was touting his energy record at Silicon Valley campaign stops – stronger fuel economy standards, increased clean energy production, foreign-oil imports at a 15-year low – a Central Valley congressman was in the Bay Area to say there’s a better approach. Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, is a regional captain of [...]]]></description>
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