Category: ‘ Environment ’

 

Energy security and climate change – Senate’s path forward

John Broder has a good piece in today's NYT on the unveiling of the Kerry-Lieberman climate and energy bill (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/science/earth/13climate.html?ref=todayspaper).  Multiple other media sources cover as ...

Coal and carbon; energy security and climate change

With so much attention focused on the oil spill in the Gulf, let's take heart from a key interagency task force meeting today in Washington that's focused on a different energy and environmental issue:  how to deploy carbon cap...

Climate & energy: what’s the deal?

Hard-core representatives of organized environmental interest groups (aka "enviros") like to believe that the challenge of global climate change merits action on its own, with no consideration for political deals or trade-offs.  ...

Electric Trucks Make it to Saturday Night Live

On Saturday night Seth Myers, sporting his usual grin and dishing out his weekly dose of rapid-fire news satire on the Weekend Update portion of SNL, offered a brief plug (if you will) to electric vehicles: “FedEx announced this...

Weekly Political Roundup–Are Gas Prices the Game Changer?

What would be a game changer in the energy debate?  A brand-new technology?  Maybe, but unrealistic.  A sudden discovery of new supplies of some crucial fuel?  Less of a game changer, and still unrealistic.  How about somethi...

Cap and trade; bait and switch

Much is being made of the prospect of new Senate energy and climate legislation that reportedly will walk away from cap and trade in favor of a new, more politically appealing approach.  (A good example is a Greenwire article tha...

Oil Companies Offer an Alternative to Cap-and-Trade

In a very good article, E&E Daily News reported today that a group of senators are considering a proposal from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and BP America to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than a cap-and-trade system.Â...

US CAP fracturing?

Sheila McNulty and Ed Crooks have a good piece in this morning's FT about recent departures from the strange-bedfellow coalition that has been the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP. (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe85190a-1...

Energy Security in the Quadrennial Defense Review

On February 1, the Office of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates issued the  2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). A Congressionally-mandated review of Department of Defense (DoD) strategies and priorities, the QDR reflects the si...

Energy, Climate and Jobs? Do Not Sacrifice Effective for Expedient

Yesterday, during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, President Obama publicly acknowledged that the Senate may pass an energy bill without a cap-and-trade component.  (Moderates from both parties have been pushing the Administ...