Leftists Shut Down Mexican Congress to Block Energy Reform.
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We funded and awarded more than 1, 800 of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants that you conceived -- flexible products that reduce energy use, put people back to work and save taxpayers' money.
His critics claim he acted improperly in buying a large block of shares in an energy privatisation, though he denies any wrongdoing.
Also on the chopping block is PowerMeter, a free energy monitoring tool that pairs with smart power meters and other energy monitoring devices to help users better understand consumption habits and ultimately reduce costs.
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And the looming block obsolescence of its existing nuclear energy infrastructure -- which currently supplies 8% of total U.S. daily consumption -- means that, unless steps are promptly taken to prepare, certify and bring on-line safe, modern replacement reactors, America will become still more vulnerable to threats, or actual interruptions of, its overseas oil supplies.
Block voluntary programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including Energy Star and Green Lights, both of which enjoy wide support in both the environmental community and U.S. industry, precisely at a time when these programs are beginning to show significant results in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Orbital debris could block all these benefits for centuries and prevent us from developing clean energy sources like space solar power satellites, exploring our Solar System and someday making humanity a multi-planetary civilization capable of surviving true climatic catastrophes.
The EU summit in Barcelona last month ended with an agreement on a major liberalisation of energy markets - a deal which France had threatened to block to protect its giant state electricity monopoly, Electricite de France.
The federal government also provides means tested assistance through multiple programs for child care, education, job training, and the Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the Social Services Block Grant, the Community Services Block Grant, and the Legal Services Corporation, among other programs.
As we seek to integrate this alternative fuel into the energy mix and cultivate its reserves within our borders, continued regulatory overreach threatens to block those objectives.
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Rees said COAD and its partners wondered what would happen if they concentrated materials and energy retrofit teams in one community for an extended period and focused on upgrading homes block by block rather than one at a time.
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In our own hemisphere, the Brazilian company Petrobras recently concluded several major energy projects in Iran, including drilling operations in the Caspian Sea and the Tusan gas block in the Persian Gulf.
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Yet mitigating the risk of default is the fact that Ecuador's ability to service its debt has improved in recent months, as high energy prices, increased taxation of the oil sector and the state's take-over of Block 15 previously run by a US company, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), are boosting the fiscal surplus and foreign reserves.
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In next-door Latvia, Russia will continue to block oil transit to that country's Ventspils terminal, again with the same end in view: acquisition of energy infrastructure at a bargain price.
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