OIL PEAK COULD CATCH UNITED STATES UNPREPARED 
WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 2007 (ENS) – The U.S. government needs a strategy to coordinate and prioritize federal agency efforts to reduce uncertainty about the timing of an oil peak and to advise Congress on how best to mitigate consequences, finds a new report by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative branch of Congress. The oil peak is that point when global production reaches its maximum and then can only decline.
FIRST EU COMMERCIAL CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER TOWER OPENS IN SPAIN 
SEVILLE, Spain, March 30, 2007 (ENS) – Europe’s first commercial concentrating solar power plant was inaugurated today near the sunny southern Spanish city of Seville. The power tower is the first of a set of solar electric power generation plants to be constructed in the same area that will total more than 300 MW by 2013.
CONGRESS URGED TO REVAMP U.S. OCEANS POLICY
By J.R. Pegg
WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 2007 (ENS) – U.S. oceans policy remains adrift, leaving the nation unable to address the myriad of environmental problems facing its oceans and coastal areas, the co-chairs of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative told a House panel Thursday.
