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23/4/2013
More than half the U.S. states with laws requiring utilities to buy renewable energy are considering ways to pare back those mandates after a plunge in natural gas prices brought on by technology that boosted supply.
Sixteen of the 29 ...
18/4/2013
Sighting a celebrity here is such a common event, it borders on the mundane. It's why so many live here, after all: New Yorkers have honed their ability to ignore everyone to such an extent that movie stars tend to become more obstacles on the ...
8/4/2013
A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast the “Selma and Stonewall” of the climate ...
8/4/2013
President Barack Obama's picks to lead energy and environmental
policy face scrutiny this week as Senate panels try to tease out details of the administration's agenda, which had been maligned by Republicans and some Democrats during Obama's ...
8/3/2013
Peter "Pete" Seeger is a 93-year old U.S. folk legend who resides near Wappingers Falls in southern New York. He can be spotted occasionally on the traffic-heavy Route 9, flanked by world peace signs and armed with a banjo.
Activists ...
5/3/2013
I went to a meeting earlier this winter in the Colorado Governor`s Office. I’m not a regular.
The Governor, John Hickenlooper, Hick to his friends, had called the meeting with Boulder County Commissioners to discuss the county’s draft ...
4/3/2013
President Obama on Monday turned to Massachusetts for his nominees to the nation's top energy and environmental posts, tapping MIT physicist Ernest J. Moniz to lead the Department of Energy, and Boston-area native and former state environmental ...
31/1/2013
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) -- known by its critics as a "corporate bill mill" -- has hit the ground running in 2013, pushing "models bills" mandating the teaching of climate change denial in public school ...
26/1/2013
Warnings that the world is headed for "peak
oil" -- when
oil supplies decline after reaching the highest rates of extraction -- appear "increasingly groundless," BP's chief executive said.
Bob Dudley's remarks came as the company ...
17/1/2013
With months of speculation ended over whether Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will stay for President Obama's second term, the former Colorado senator must now decide which of many
policy initiatives he wants to finish before he leaves in ...
7/1/2013
Just five years ago, Brazil's mostly "green" energy landscape was the envy of nations dependent on dirtier sources of power and the pride of a government that believed it was leading the country to economic superpower ...
2/1/2013
Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its singularity--its vastness, its difference from other industries and its threat to the planet?
When I interviewed Dr. ...
2/1/2013
Amid the crises and battles, both predictable and unforeseeable, that you will face over the next four years, one problem will stand out both for the economic and social dangers it poses and for the difficulty and cost of solving it. Whether you ...
13/11/2012
Long a beggar on the world energy stage, the United States is entering what many experts are calling an era of growing abundance — perhaps enough to turn the nation into a net exporter of
oil and natural gas by the end of the decade.It’s ...
2/11/2012
In the race for the White House, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have talked about sustainable development.
Yet the Green Party ticket, whose stance on the issue outpaces those of both the Republican and Democratic parties, is ...
24/10/2012
“DRILL, baby, drill.” It is among the best-remembered lines of the 2008 presidential campaign, colorfully capturing the desire of many Americans for cheap, reliable energy produced at home rather than in unpredictable places like Iran or ...
19/10/2012
These are times of profound challenges for the energy industry and for climate change
policy both in the UK and globally -- being able to keep prices low, dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid relying on unstable regions for our ...
19/10/2012
The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong--and How to Fix It. By Dieter Helm. Yale University Press; 273 pages; £20. To be published in America next month; $35. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
IN DECEMBER 2009, as the ...
17/10/2012
On Oct. 4, in rural east Texas, a 78-year-old great-grandmother, Eleanor Fairchild, was arrested for trespassing on her own property … and I was arrested standing beside her, as we held our ground in the path of earth-moving excavators ...
14/10/2012
Extracting domestic natural gas has become a "game changer" since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, and in Pennsylvania it`s been neither a Democratic nor Republican issue.
The state Department of Environmental Protection says ...
26/9/2012
It was one of the rare moments in Mitt Romney’s otherwise pedestrian convention speech that brought the house down.
“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet,” he said at the Republican ...
8/9/2012
An over-reliance on gas-fired power stations risks making it impossible for Britain to meet targets on cutting carbon emissions, the new head of the independent climate change watchdog has warned.
The intervention by Lord Deben, who as ...
11/6/2012
Three years ago, when the Canadian pipeline people first came round Bob Math's cattle ranch in northernmost Montana, the conversation was brittle.
The TransCanada emissaries were pleasant enough. But it soon became apparent their ...
2/4/2012
Bill McKibben is a patient man. Twenty-three years ago, he published The End of Nature, one of the first books written for a general audience that laid out the issue of global warming. Nearly two decades later, after the U.S. and the ...
21/3/2012
Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 issued a statement last week that its preliminary tests of water samples near drilling and fracking sites in the Pennsylvania town of Dimock showed no health concerns, the group Water ...