World:
¶ At the International Renewable Energy Agency, heads of energy agencies from 160 countries endorsed a declaration calling for a doubling of the world’s share of renewable energy by 2030. [MENAFN.COM]
¶ A fish caught inside the harbor of Fukushima Daiichi has 2540 times the legal limit for food fish in Japan. [The News International]
US:
¶ The US Interior Department is designating more land in Arizona as available for development of wind and solar power generation. [Businessweek]
¶ A Pew Charitable Trust report projects revenue from renewable at $1.9 trillion in the US for the period of 2012 to 2018, if regulatory conditions are stable. [The Guardian]
… The report also says the US is trailing other countries in renewable development. [UPI.com]
¶ The US DOE is in court, defending the $750 million fee it collects from the nuclear industry for handling nuclear waste. The fee is being challenged because the DOE has no nuclear handling system in place. [Businessweek]
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