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		<title>Contra Costa receives $500,000 DOE solar grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contra costa economic partnership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. George Miller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Contra Costa economic development partnership was awarded a $521,529 Department of Energy grant to help streamline and digitize the permitting process for solar system. Read on for the news release issued earlier today: A clean technology initiative of the Contra Costa Economic Partnership has been awarded a major grant through the U.S. Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing planned on underground gas tank leaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Wieckowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Independent Oil Marketers Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cameron Smyth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[underground gas tanks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An East Bay lawmaker will chair a hearing Wednesday in San Jose on progress toward cleaning up thousands of leaking underground tanks that pose environmental threats. The Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee’s hearing will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium in the Santa Clara County [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers hold hearing on clean energy economy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/16/lawmakers-hold-hearing-on-clean-energy-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Wieckowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Skinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Altergy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[green energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Next 10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primus Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA-China Link]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two Assembly members from the East Bay co-chaired a hearing today on keeping California at the forefront of the world’s clean-energy sector. Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, and Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, co-chair the Assembly Select Committee on California’s Clean Energy Economy, and convened the hearing this morning at the State Capitol. “We have a dynamic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox targets Rep. Miller but gets its facts wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/13/fox-targets-rep-miller-but-gets-its-facts-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/13/fox-targets-rep-miller-but-gets-its-facts-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[claycord.com]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[george miller iv]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=17462</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CHECK OUT MY FULL STORY HERE. POSTED 4:40 PM OCT. 17, 2011 Fox cable pundits such as Sean Hannity are naming Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, and his lobbyist son, George IV, as unholy kingpins in SunPower&#8217;s successful bid for $1.2 billion in federal loans to create jobs in Mexico. (See update below.) It&#8217;s provocative but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Cabinet members in Bay Area this week</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/09/13/four-cabinet-members-in-bay-area-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anna Eshoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Honda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama presidency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Shinseki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interior secretary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palo Alto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray LaHood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it’s Cabinet week in the Bay Area. I just covered U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (accompanied by Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt) talking about FAA, surface transportation and job creation bills out at the Oakland International Airport control tower construction site. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson will be in the Bay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Clinton summit a day of wine and mushrooms</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/09/09/free-clinton-summit-a-day-of-wine-and-mushrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bay Area Air Quality Management District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blueprint for healthy communities summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[craneway pavilion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Gioia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark ross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metropolitan transpo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The chosen few invited to see former President Bill Clinton at the Oct. 21 &#8220;Blueprint for Healthy Communities Summit&#8221; in Richmond will have a gastronomically delightful day, according to the two-page invitation. (See below.) For lunch, attendees will have a choice of braised beef short ribs and spicy pistachio porcini parsnip puree with orange zest; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albany man to lead Department of Fish &amp; Game</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/26/albany-man-to-lead-department-of-fish-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/26/albany-man-to-lead-department-of-fish-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appointed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlton Bonham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Bonham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Fish and Game]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fish and Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A fisheries conservation expert from the East Bay is the California Department of Fish and Game’s new director. Gov. Jerry Brown today named Charlton “Chuck” Bonham, 43, of Albany, to the post. Bonham has served in various positions at Trout Unlimited since 2000, including California director and senior attorney. He was an instructor and trip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmaker touts &#8216;fracking&#8217; disclosure bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/15/lawmaker-touts-fracking-disclosure-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Wieckowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AB 591]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[california league of conservation voters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Water Action]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[disclosure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Allen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roger Dickinson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil and gas producers engaged in hydraulic fracturing must be required to disclose the chemicals they’re pumping into the ground, an East Bay lawmaker said today. Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, held a news conference at the State Capitol just before his AB 591 was taken up by the state Senate Appropriations Committee, which will decide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Area firms get $19.6 mil for battery research</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/11/bay-area-firms-get-19-6-mil-for-battery-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four Bay Area companies will receive more than $19.6 million in U.S. Energy Department grants over the next few years for research into new batteries to power electric vehicles. The money is part of $175 million that Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced yesterday will be paid out over the next three to five years to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Brown, Harry Reid tout energy summit</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/10/jerry-brown-harry-reid-tout-energy-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/10/jerry-brown-harry-reid-tout-energy-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Sandoval]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christine Gregoire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Podesta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Clean Energy Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Mabus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conference at the end of this month in Las Vegas will be a crucial opportunity for the nation to kick-start its clean-energy revolution, Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on a conference call this morning. Brown and Reid, D-Nev., as well as U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray [...]]]></description>
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