Category: ‘ Environment ’

 

Natural Gas and America’s Power Mix

On Tuesday, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its most recent Short Term Energy Outlook.  This monthly report updates EIA’s projections for 2012 and 2013 across numerous energy supply and demand sectors and p...

Oops – law of unintended consequences proved again

Wind turbines:  They disrupt the lifestyles of bats and now they contribute, in a very small way, to global warming.  Today's WSJ has an interesting piece by Robert Lee Hotz, reporting that large "wind farms slightly increase te...

More good news on natural gas

Daniel Gilbert and Russell Gold reported Saturday in the WSJ on some more good news in the world of US shale gas: The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its claim that an energy company contaminated drinking water in T...

The double-edged shale gas sword

Does cheap natural gas represent an unalloyed good for American energy security and economic health?  Or is it an easy quick fix, lulling us into a false sense of security that will prove damaging down the road?  Those are the q...

Energy over the weekend

Normally, the big energy news over the weekend at this time of year would be the results of the United National Climate Conference to implement the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, since a large porti...

Energy over the weekend

AP reports (says Saturday's WSJ) that China will phase out incandescent light bulbs -- banning imports and sales of 100-watt and higher bulbs in October 2012, followed by bans on 60-watt and 15-watt in 2014 and 2016, respectively....

Energy over the weekend

Saturday's WSJ - "Court Overturns Clearance for Offshore Wind Farm" - federal appeals court told the FAA to redo its review of the Cape Wind project.  The $2.6 billion project has been trying for years to become the first commerc...

Common sense on energy security and climate change

Buried and juxtaposed in the World Watch section of today's WSJ down on page A13 are two articles that neatly capture the current climate conundrum.    The first, titled "Increasing Use of Coal Prompts IEA Warning" warns: "...

Fracking fracas

The NYT Energy & Environment blog has a piece today on upcoming hearings on what is the main energy issue, by far, in the U.S. today:  hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas from shale formations. New York’s charged...

Political Roundup: Drilling and Driving

Much has happened in Congress this past week relating to energy issues.  There’s a new push to open the Arctic National Wildlife Rescue (ANWR) to drilling. The GOP faced a setback as the house failed to pass a temporary extensi...
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