Green Week in Review podcast – August 7, 2009

The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is 15-20 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable MP3 player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer’s media player each week.

In this week’s show…

The Obama administration announced $2.4 billion dollars in stimulus grants in an effort to build a U.S. manufacturing base for advanced batteries and electric vehicles.

Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL) backed off on its proposal to charge a monthly fee to customers who own grid-connected solar power systems.

A federal court struck down a Bush-era rule that stripped away protection for designated ‘roadless’ areas of national forests.

Plus, as always, a quick review of the top cleantech headlines.

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