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August 25, 2011
Electricity Deregulation: Balancing Risks and Rewards in Today’s Electric Utility Markets | Read More »

Electricity Deregulation: Balancing Risks and Rewards in Today’s Electric Utility Markets

August 25, 2011
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	Biden Promotes Green Jobs Program To Receptive Coloradans "These are real, live jobs for a real, live future," Biden said during the town-hall-style meeting. "We're the catalyst for a fundamental change. We're giving people jobs in a tough economy." Biden has toured the country since the federal stimulus package passed Congress, touting its benefits to working-class America and fielding questions about how the money will be spent from the helm of his Middle Class Task Force. (click here to read more) By Jessica Fender The Denver Post

	Government Announces Money For Green Jobs, Training From Stimulus Package DENVER — Vice President Joe Biden and two Cabinet secretaries unveiled a national program Tuesday to train workers for "green jobs" that will make public housing more energy-efficient. Biden, Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced the plan in Denver at a meeting of President Barack Obama's task force on the middle class. (click here to read more) AP \| DAN ELLIOTT \|

	OBAMA: Green Stimulus Will Include Smart Energy Grid On Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama called for doubling production of alternative energy in the United States over the next three years as part of his "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." In a speech officially rolling out the plan, he also set a goal of retrofitting more than 75 percent of federal buildings and 2 million homes to make them more energy-efficient. Read the whole story here. Grist \| Kate Sheppard \|

	Study: Jobs in fledgling green sector growing NEW YORK — The fledgling renewable energy industry has grown steadily over much of the past decade, adding jobs at more than twice the national rate, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Wednesday.