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15/6/2013
This weekend, for the third year in a row, I’ll be traveling to Washington, D.C., to push Congress to enact meaningful legislation that will rein in climate change. Many people would view this as a fool’s errand, given the gridlock that exists in ...
11/6/2013
The world cannot afford to wait for a new global climate change agreement to come into force in 2020, because doing so will mean an end to hopes of limiting global warming to moderate levels, one of the world’s foremost authorities on energy has ...
6/6/2013
California is replacing oil with cleaner-burning
fuels in cars and trucks, thanks to a landmark low-carbon
fuel rule, according to a recent report. But the rule's fate is uncertain amid legal chaos and a shortfall in the production of clean ...
28/5/2013
They say that every cloud has a silver lining. If future energy consumption (which is mostly fossil
fuel) drops because of a financial collapse brought on by high oil prices and other limits, then, at least in theory, climate change should be ...
26/5/2013
On a line of low hills standing sentinel beside a dry lake bed near Australia's capital, giant turbines turning slowly in a chill winter breeze give no hint of a multi-billion-dollar storm building around
renewable energy.
Infigen ...
22/5/2013
Investments in shale gas drilling could yield an industry worth nearly £4bn a year to the UK economy and create more than 70,000 jobs, according to a new report from the Institute of Directors (IoD), becoming a "new North Sea" energy business in ...
14/5/2013
It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.Killing these iconic ...
13/5/2013
Congressional lawmakers from both parties are taking a step to catalyze the nation's clean energy economy: After 32 years of restricting a crucial investment tool to expanding fossil
fuels, they're pushing to open it to ...
10/5/2013
U.S. natural gas production is booming. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), production grew by 23 percent from 2007 to 2012. Now--with production projected to continue growing in the decades ahead--U.S. lawmakers and ...
8/5/2013
President Obama’s first major environmental decision of his second term could be to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, profoundly disappointing environmental advocates who have made the project a symbolic test of the president’s seriousness on ...
3/5/2013
The need to shift to sustainable and clean energy sources will be reinforced when the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history in the next few ...
29/4/2013
In Philadelphia, we have already started to see impacts of climate change. But to keep climate change at below 2°C (3.6°F), a level considered likely to avoid some of the most drastic effects of climate change, the 200 corporations with the most ...
21/4/2013
The battle between U.S. ethanol producers and oil companies has reached a turning point, with the winners poised to gain an advantage over the future of the country’s energy mix and the losers forced to cede profits and jobs to their bitter ...
18/4/2013
Chevron Corp. (CVX) helped write the first-in-the-nation rule ordering reduced carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Its biofuels chief spoke at the ceremony where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order in 2007, the ...
11/4/2013
As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that blanketed Los Angeles decades ago.
The soot and smog that are byproducts of this country's industrial progress are ...
9/4/2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has consistently over-estimated the prospects for production of advanced biofuels from non-food crops, adding to the impression of a biofuel policy that is out of step with reality.
The U.S. ...
1/4/2013
The EPA unveiled its new anti-smog rules on Friday, prompting the usual Republican complaints about President Obama’s war on free enterprise, along with the usual dire warnings of higher prices at the pump. The rules will raise gas prices, but ...
1/4/2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could soon issue a final ruling that aims to force oil companies to replace E10, gasoline mixed with 10 percent ethanol, with E15.
This move could come just as widespread support for ethanol, ...
29/3/2013
Freeing America from its dependence on oil from unstable parts of the world is an admirable goal, but many of the proposed solutions -- including the push for more home-grown biofuels and for the construction of the new Keystone XL pipeline to ...
29/3/2013
The Environmental Protection Agency will move ahead Friday with a rule requiring cleaner gasoline and lower-pollution vehicles nationwide, amounting to one of President Obama’s most significant air pollution initiatives, according to people ...
22/3/2013
Greenpeace recently issued a call for coordinated action to halt development of the 14 most threatening fossil
fuel projects on the planet. These coal, oil, and gas projects, by increasing greenhouse gas emissions 6.3 gigatons a year by 2020, ...
21/3/2013
By 2050, New York State could run entirely on energy produced from wind, water and sunlight. That radical finding, which goes further than any other clean energy plan envisioned for New York, comes from a peer-reviewed study [3] published last ...
19/3/2013
Despite little success so far and growing support nationally for clean energy, a multi-pronged campaign to undercut
renewable power mandates in the states is showing no signs of letting up.
Over the past few years, a rising tide of ...
18/3/2013
A power blackout occurred today at Japan`s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, knocking out the system that cools four pools of water holding spent
fuel rods.
Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, said the blackout ...
13/3/2013
A recent flood of Koch-supported think tanks, junk scientists and astroturf groups from inside and outside of Kansas are awaiting the outcome of a bill this week that could stall progress on the growth of clean energy in Kansas.
States ...