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The great Washington pastime of reading between the lines of the President's State of the Union address is in full swing. If the POTUS had last night said "I support the Waxman-Markey bill and ask the Senate to pass it" -- that ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil Dependence, Renewables
Reuters is reporting comments from the number two leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer (D-MD), that breathe new life into the on-going debate about whether to pass economy-boosting energy security legislation t...
Posted Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 9:41 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Environment
Today's FT has an nice little blog by Kate MacKenzie entitled "Carbon emissions reduction without cap-and-trade" about various thinking on the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Let's expand on -- and maybe clarify -- ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 8:11 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Environment
Yesterday, an E&E article (subscription required) made reference to a study on greenhouse gas emissions from aviation and marine transportation by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (full report available here). Several...
Posted Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 7:45 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Environment, Transportation
As expectations of forthcoming carbon constraints, whether global or domestic, rose over the last few years, American businesses began to plan and even preempt a low-carbon competitive environment. For utilities, that meant lear...
Posted Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at 8:29 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Environment, Legislation
This morning's NYT on-line (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/science/earth/18climate.html?_r=1&hp) is running a piece entitled, "Hopes are Fading for Climate Accord at Copenhagen." This well-reported story lays the blame ...
Posted Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at 6:08 am | Filed in: Environment, Legislation
In an effort to cobble together 60 votes on energy and climate legislation before the legislative session’s clock strikes midnight, ‘tripartisan’ Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) relea...
Posted Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, Nuclear
Time for an update on one of our favorite civil suits! Diligent readers of these postings with strong memories may recall the case brought by a 72 year-old retired spelunker against a West Virginia wind farm. At issue: whe...
Posted Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 7:36 am | Filed in: Electricity, Environment, Renewables, Wind
Natural gas is being touted by some at Copenhagen as a relatively low-carbon “bridge” fuel, a life-line to take us through the next few decades until we can depend entirely on renewable and nuclear energy. Proponents, which in...
Posted Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 9:13 am | Filed in: Electricity, Environment, Natural Gas, Renewables, Transportation
As the climate negotiations begin this coming Monday- coincidentally enough on Pearl Harbor Day (one assumes Glenn Beck is already on that), the hacking/leaking of email exchanges between climate scientists gets a thoughtful treat...
Posted Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 am | Filed in: Environment, Legislation
