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Trade union group to call on government to ramp up support for clean tech or risk losing jobs and competitiveness to US and Europe

Former vice president and potential climate change ambassador calls for national smart grid and renewables targets to underpin climate policy

Senior figure in transition team hints that any last gasp attempt by Bush administration to open up more land for oil drilling will be reversed by Obama White House

Rumours circulating that Governor Schwarzenegger could be offered energy secretary post in Obama administration

BusinessGreen.com asks the great and the good of the US cleantech sector what they are hoping to see from the Obama White House

Californian voters reject plans for renewable energy targets, but approve proposals for high speed rail network

Developers claim ultra-supercritical plant will be amongst world's cleanest coal-fired power stations

Expectation that the president-elect will bolster renewables sector fails to halt solar stocks slide

Experts claim prospect of genuinely global carbon market bolstered by historic election victory

Obama's dominance of the environmental and energy debate deserves the green business movement's backing