Politics & Legislation

Electric vs Gasoline Comparisons

The DOE has just launched a wonderful tool that some people will love and others will hate. Its new eGallon tool shows people how much it costs to fuel up on electricity versus gas.[read more]

Examining Nuclear Energy and Fossil Fuels

A federal appeals court ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to perform more thorough evaluations in support of its new Waste Confidence Rule, particularly with respect to the potential impacts of long-term storage of spent fuel at plant sites.[read more]

China's Energy Plans

China can realize the ambitious targets in its twelfth 5-Year Plan by shifting its focus from increasing capacity to managing demand, according to a just-released report from the China Greentech Initiative, The 2013 China Greentech Report: China at a Crossroads.[read more]

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After years of opposing international efforts to restrict hydrofluorocarbons China has now agreed to cooperate with the United States in moving forward to phase down the use of these chemicals under the Montreal Protocol.[read more]

Logging and Renewable Energy

Back in 2011, the federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency commissioned the Australian Energy Market Operator to investigate two future scenarios in which the National Electricity Market was fuelled entirely by renewables.[read more]

shared renewables

Momentum is building for shared renewable energy in California. Late last week the two bills we’ve been following there, SB 43 and AB 1014, passed with strong margins in their chambers of origin.[read more]

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Even the best-prepared, best-equipped, and most technologically advanced oil company has no business drilling for oil in the Arctic. It is simply not possible to do it safely here.[read more]

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Insurance companies are making the connection that property claims are increasing in frequency and value as climate change produces more storms of greater intensity marauding across inhabited spaces[read more]

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38 of the ministers who voted against the amendment to set a decarbonisation target for 2030 last week in the House of Commons have received support from, or are in some way connected to, the fossil fuel industry.[read more]

US-China relations

President Obama and President Xi announced a breakthrough in bilateral cooperation on climate change, by agreeing to work together on a phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons.[read more]

energy poverty

Providing access to clean fuel and electricity is the foundation that enables improvements and developments in health, education and business and provides the key to leaving poverty behind.[read more]

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Leaded gasoline has been banned from use by all land and marine vehicles for over 18 years. Why hasn’t the EPA eliminated leaded aviation gasoline and possibly required replacing it with an alternative fuel such as ethanol?[read more]

China's oil prices and consumption

A big part of China and India’s problems is that they, like the United States and most of Europe, are oil importers. There is a big difference in the impact of high oil prices on oil importing countries compared to oil exporting countries.[read more]

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US oil export policy merits a thorough reevaluation, and soon, because the regional impacts of a continued no-export stance could become pronounced, even if the US never reached overall oil self-sufficiency[read more]

geothermal energy

Traveling through the complex system of federal and state regulations to secure project approvals is one of the biggest challenges facing geothermal power developers – but not if they’ve got a map outlining every twist and turn.[read more]