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22/5/2013
Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a 'green revolution' in Europe's biggest
power market. A year on, Peter Altmaier finds himself spurned by many environmentalists, disdained by ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
18/4/2013
A shipment of highly radioactive
nuclear fuel to Japan left the port of Cherbourg in northern France on Wednesday for the first time since the Fukushima disaster, French energy group Areva said on Thursday.
The shipment of mixed oxide ...
2/4/2013
By most measures of environmental policy and progress, Ontario, Canada ranks well. Over the last half-century, Canada’s most populous province required cities and industries to treat every gallon of wastewater, dramatically reduced the level of ...
1/4/2013
Exelon Corp. (EXC) left the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2009 over the group’s
opposition to a climate- change bill, declaring the “carbon-based free lunch” was over.
The company had a change of heart and rejoined the nation’s largest ...
4/3/2013
President Obama on Monday named two people to his cabinet who will be charged with making good on his threat to use the
powers of the executive branch to tackle climate change and energy policy if Congress does not act quickly.Mr. Obama ...
16/1/2013
Cumbria's tourism board has joined the growing clamour against any further research into the burying of
nuclear power station waste within the borders of the Lake District national park.
The board – which oversees the park, the county's ...
30/12/2012
Yes, elections do have consequences, and those associated with a likely continuation of disastrous Obama administration energy policies will be huge. Now in this coming new year, with his hold on the Oval Office secure for a final term, the ...
21/12/2012
President Barack Obama nominated Sen. John Kerry to become the next U.S. secretary of state, entrusting him with America's foreign policy at a time of widening civil strife in the Middle East and an expansionist and militarily
strong ...
30/11/2012
On a sunny, blowy evening in September, a new single turbine was being unveiled in the Gloucestershire village of St Briavels. If you had been in the room, you would have been filled with optimism about the future. It wasn't that the community ...
8/11/2012
The topic of climate change was largely absent from both campaigns until Superstorm Sandy hit. While the storm may not have been caused by a changing climate, it highlighted the challenges to come if global warming is to take hold.
To ...
30/10/2012
Renewable energy capacity will overtake
nuclear power in the UK by 2018, if current rates of growth continue, and will provide enough
power for one in 10 British homes by 2015, according to new research.
The amount of electricity ...
20/10/2012
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Monday, Oct. 29, 2012The New Oil and Gas BoomBy Fareed Zakaria
In their second debate, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney began with a spirited discussion on energy, during which ...
15/10/2012
The Big Energy industries (oil, coal and gas) along with their political allies like Mitt Romney are waging war against sustainable energy and the need to transform our energy system and reverse global warming. In many instances they are aided ...
14/9/2012
Japan said Friday that it would seek to phase out
nuclear power by 2040 — a historic shift for a country that has long staked its future on such energy, but one that falls far short of the decisive steps the government had promised in the wake of ...
31/8/2012
Power plants are a bit like insect eggs. At the start, there are huge numbers, but few of them make it to adulthood.
The last few days may have seen the demise of two reactor projects that had looked promising a few years ago, when the ...
16/7/2012
Every Friday evening they gather before Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's residence.
The first rally in March was modest: a few hundred citizens joined against
nuclear power, marking the anniversary of the earthquake- and tsunami-triggered ...
10/7/2012
The world is warming, incomes are rising, and smaller families are living in larger houses in hotter places. One result is a booming market for air conditioning -- world sales in 2011 were up 13 percent over 2010, and that growth is expected to ...
8/7/2012
The punishing seven-year drought of the 1950s in Texas brought about the modern era of water planning. But the drought of 2011 was the hottest, driest 12 months on record there.
Though only a handful of towns saw their water sources dry ...
5/7/2012
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12/6/2012
Coal-reliant Poland has pitched itself against the other 26 members of the European Union ahead of a debate on a low-carbon energy future this week, EU sources said.
The Commission aims to establish policy direction once a set of green ...
30/5/2012
The blazing blue skies that Germany baked under last weekend added a fresh gleam to the nation's renewable energy revolution: a new world record for solar
power generation, equivalent to 20
nuclear power stations. It is the battle between ...
7/5/2012
Japan has yet to chart a future energy policy although it hit the switch on its last operating
nuclear reactor on May 5 following the accident at the Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant.Discussions within the government lack a clear ...
7/5/2012
The shutdown of Japan's last working
nuclear power plant and the government's failure to convince a wary public about restoring production at dozens of reactors leaves the world's third largest economy facing another summer of severe
power ...
4/5/2012
The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as
power plants running on oil and natural gas fill the electricity gap left by now-shuttered
nuclear ...