Labor, environment groups push “green” broadband

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Labor and environmental groups joined with the U.S. government on Thursday to promote high speed Internet access and related technologies to create green jobs and help lift the United States out of recession.

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Heavy snow slams North American business

CHICAGO/HAMBURG (Reuters) – Blasts of Arctic winds and drifting snow gripped much of the northern United States and Canada on Thursday, slowing business in the agricultural sector and threatening to disrupt natural gas production.

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U.S. carbon market growth seen without climate bill

DALLAS (Reuters) – Voluntary carbon markets in the United States will grow especially at the regional level even if a stalled federal climate bill fails to impose “cap and trade” on American industry, the chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) said.

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Think electric carmaker to invest in U.S. plant

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Norwegian electric car maker Think Global said it plans to build vehicles in the United States in 2011 and has picked a site in Indiana for its U.S. manufacturing facility.

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Qingyuan seeks to boost electric car sales in U.S.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Tianjin Qingyuan Electric Vehicle Co, the first Chinese automaker to break into the United States, hopes to significantly boost sales of its self-developed electric models in the world’s second-largest market this year, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

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