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<h1 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:
10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000'>May 06, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000'><a href="#news">News
and Events</a> <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="#12489">President Obama Takes Action to
Advance Biofuels Production</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="#12490">DOE to Invest $786.5 Million in
Recovery Act Funds in Biofuels</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="#12491">EPA's Proposed Renewable Fuel
Standard Tackles GHG Emissions</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="#12492">DOE to Invest $93 Million in
Recovery Act Funds in Wind Power</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="#12485">New Hospital Energy Alliance to
Promote Clean Energy in Healthcare</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="#12493">BLM to Invest Recovery Act Funds
on Renewable Energy Permitting</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000'><a href="#energy">Energy
Connections</a> <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Study: Climate Targets Greatly Limit the Near-Term Use of Fossil
Fuels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-top:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>In the
absence of technologies to capture and sequester carbon dioxide, the path to
avoid dangerous levels of climate change requires that less than one quarter of
the world's proven fossil fuel reserves can be burned between now and 2050,
according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Nature last week,
finds that the world can have a reasonable chance of keeping global warming
within 2°C above pre-industrial levels, but only if the world's nations can
collectively limit their total emissions to one trillion metric tons of carbon
dioxide between the years 2000 and 2050. That may sound like a lot, but the
world has already burned through one-third of that allowance in only nine
years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>On its current course, the world will reach the one trillion ton
limit within 20 years, rather than 40, and the prospect of controlling the
global temperature rise will be bleak. The study confirms the need to achieve
substantial reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions soon, as any delays
could add tremendous economic costs and technological challenges to the goal of
limiting the global temperature rise. That conclusion echoes the findings of a
report from McKinsey & Company that was <a
href="http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=bWFpbGluZ2lkPTQ3NDM3NiZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9UFJELUJVTC00NzQzNzYmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xMjE1NDkzNDk5JmVtYWlsaWQ9c3N0cnVieUBjb3gubmV0JnVzZXJpZD1zc3RydWJ5QGNveC5uZXQmZXh0cmE9JiYm&&&128&&&http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=12261">reported
in this newsletter</a> in late February. See the <a
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release</a> from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research.</span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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