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...renewables like wind and solar is often referred to as the new Apollo project, a challenge to our scientists - and to the federal checkbook - that will be even greater than the moon race. We're moving ahead on installing new clean energy - the U.S. was the fastest growing wind-power market in the world in 2008 - and Congress, with the support of President Barack Obama, is on the road to establishing caps on carbon dioxide...
...dream. Another House bill would have the Energy Department spend $30 million a year for five years on natural-gas vehicles, even though the Obama Administration hasn't sought the money and few experts believe natural gas is a smart fuel. (Watch TIME's video "The Truth About Wind Power...
...course, the tiny renewable-power industry has little weight in Washington. The major coal-powered utility American Electric Power spent $4.6 million to lobby Congress in the first six months of the year, $1.3 million more than it did over the same period last year. By contrast, "I don't think you can see the renewable-energy lobby compete on a dollar-by-dollar basis with the fossil-fuel and coal lobby," says Mataczynski...
...This inertia of habit may ensure that after 50 years, even a debilitated ETA could be hard to eradicate. "Think of those communist parties in Western Europe, or neo-Nazi groups, who don't have the slightest chance of ever returning to power - they're still around," Sánchez-Cuenca says. "An organization is a lot harder to kill than an individual...
...Europe's poorest country. About a sixth of its population works abroad, largely in menial jobs on the streets of Western Europe. But it made headlines in April when thousands of Moldovans, mostly young people, took to the street crying fraud after elections that returned the Communist Party to power. Protesters torched buildings and ransacked the presidential palace. (Read: "Ghosts of Kosovo...