State overhauls 'green' tax breaks
SALEM (AP) Oregon s Department of Energy has issued new rules aimed at curbing a state program that grants lucrative tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable power plants. The changes are intended to trim the program s cost by making it hard...
 2.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 50.0 Tax breaks cost state more than predicted
PORTLAND (AP) State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of Gov. Ted Kulongoski s plan to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were t...
11.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 100.0 Farmers grow electricity
WIMER Vern and Gianaclis Caldwell do a lot of the typical things that make a small farm self-sufficient. Besides the 40-some dwarf Nigerian goats they milk to make artisanal cheeses, they also raise chickens for meat and eggs, a steer for beef, hor...
4.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 359.0 SKorea's Uni-chem to take over Eugene plant
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A South Korean company will sign a formal contract with Hynix Semiconductor Inc. to buy a plant the memory chip maker closed in the United States, an official said Wednesday. Uni-chem Co. will take over Hynix s memory chip p...
1.7K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 140.0 New planets are bigger than earth
WASHINGTON Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using European Southern Observatory telescopes didn t find any planets q...
2.1K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 79.0 Without supply, prices skyrocket
This is just some food for thought and not Chicken Little saying the sky is falling. It seems that there will be more electric cars in our near future. There is a lot of pressure to get away from gas-powered vehicles in an effort to go green, which...
1.4K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 50.0 Reedsport clinic gets renewable energy grant
Dunes Family Health Care of Reedsport is receiving a $19,934 grant for energy efficiency improvements. The clinic plans to install a solar panel system to save on electrical costs. The clinic was one of 44 businesses in the state awarded a g...
1.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 50.0 The solar slough
Believe it or not, there is enough sunshine on the Southern Oregon Coast to justify installing a solar panel or two. That is according to Kevin Berg, program and events coordinator with Solar Oregon, a Portland-based nonprofit that espouses the benef...
5.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 Successful business still grows out of garages
Green living. Solar cells. Electric cars. It s hard to open a newspaper without reading about companies trying to grab a corner of the developing alternative-energy and technology markets. There s opportunity for scientifically minded people and ente...
2.1K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 300.0 Green living, solar home tour is Saturday
Learn about tax incentives of renewable energy A free one-hour workshop, Residential Basics of Going Solar, is offered at Southwestern Oregon Community College s Eden Lecture Hall Saturday, at 9 a.m., as the kick-off event to the Green Living and ...
1.6K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 850.0 Solar tour kicks off Saturday
Solar power advocates are inviting local residents to learn more about the industry and take a Green Living and Solar Home Tour on Saturday, Oct. 3. The day kicks off with a free one-hour workshop, Residential Basics of Going Solar at Southwester...
1.3K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 901.0 Buyer for shuttered Eugene plant
PORTLAND (AP) A South Korean leather manufacturer that s jumping on the solar bandwagon reportedly plans to buy the closed Hynix semiconductor plant in Eugene and make solar cells and modules there. An official of a company affiliated with South Ko...
1.1K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 258.0 College to host free workshop on solar power
Solar Oregon, a nonprofit organization, will be offering a free presentation Saturday, Oct. 3 titled The Residential Basics of Going Solar. The one hour workshop will be held at 9 a.m. in Eden Hall at Southwestern Oregon Community College s Coos Bay...
0.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 632.0 Holyfield plans to keep fighting
ATLANTA Evander Holyfield has no intention of hanging up his gloves. In fact, he ll have a new nickname the next time he climbs into the ring. The Real Deal is now the Lean Green Fighting Machine. Refusing to give up on his goal of retiring as heav...
4.2K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 79.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 17, 1:26 a.m., gun shots were heard in the area of Lakeshore Drive and Seabreeze Terrace. Sept. 17, 7:07 a.m., someone stole items out of a vehicle parked in the 2...
3.0K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 50.0 Groups plans trial run with pooch poo compost
ITHACA, N.Y. ” A group of upstate New York dog owners thinks it has a can-do plan to profitably compost the tons of dog doo left behind by the roughly 50,000 canines that use the city s pooch park each year. If their pilot project is succe...
3.6K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 50.0 Astronomers find new solid planet
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there s a firm place to stand ” if only it weren t so broiling hot. As scientists search the skies for life elsewhere, they have found more ...
2.5K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 381.0 Energy companies score $140 million in grants
PORTLAND (AP) Federal cash grants worth more than $140 million were awarded Tuesday to energy companies operating three Eastern Oregon wind farms. The grants will help offset the cost of building Horizon Wind Energy s Wheat Field wind farm...
2.6K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 50.0 Governor will make stop at new park
Gov. Ted Kulongoski will make a stop on the South Coast on Monday to tour the newest state park, Crissey Field State Park. The 40-acre park south of Brookings opened last year as part of the Governor s Park-a-Year Initiative. He s scheduled to be t...
0.6K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 50.0 Media gobblegook distracts thinkers
Woof Blitzer here for Mainstream Media Corporation. We have in the studio representatives of two conflicting points of view regarding existing conditions on George Orwell s Animal Farm. Paul Klugman, noted Nobel Prize winning economist, what say you ...
1.7K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 50.0 | 
