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Fiscal Cliff Threatens Environmental Protections
If Congress fails to reach an agreement, automatic, across-the-board spending cuts would kick in, making it much harder for the government to deliver the health and environmental protections people value. We would feel these punishing cuts in our daily lives.[read more]
The Tragedy of the Commons: Reflecting on a Century of Progress and Problems
As the first decade of the twenty-first century comes to a close, the problem of the commons is more important to our lives – and more central to economics – than a century ago when the first issue of the American Economic Review appeared, with an examination by Professor Katharine Coman of Wellesley College of “Some Unsettled Problems...[read more]
The Gulf disaster, and the future of coal
If you like the BP oil spill… you’re going to love carbon capture and storage. Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is the technology that offers the best hope of generating electricity from coal in a way that doesn’t further heat up the planet. When people talk about “clean coal” – a phrase that deserves quotes because coal is never...[read more]
Audio: Mitt Romney on the Enviroment
This week's Living on Earth has a good story about Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his environmental policies. Now I don't know much about Romney's enviropolitics, except for the fact that while Governor of Massachusetts, he made national headlines with his opposition to Cape Wind, the proposed offshore wind energy...[read more]
Buildings in Green... and Red
Starting my holiday season waaay too early? No, but I’ve been talking to some smart people recently about some of the strategic, financial issues concerning building green. On Tuesday I met with Sally Wilson, SVP and Global Director of Environmental Strategy for CBRE, the world’s largest brokerage firm with over 1.7...[read more]
Right Cause, Wrong Reasons
My mother, who died last year, loved the beautiful farmland and rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia where she spent most of her life. But since the area so close to Washington, DC is threatened with large-scale development, she worried that her beloved landscapes would disappear. Just in the nick of time along came...[read more]
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“Nuclear power absolutely has an excellent chance for a place at the table, but it has to address the current industry environment. The last round of plants only began to look attractive when they finally were in the hands of competent operators and had been fully amortised or acquired cheaply. As Excelon and Duke have both publicly noted, large new nukes require assurance of stable gas prices in ...”
“Seeking comes before finding. Established industry leaders are not seeking. They have an inventory of the old stuff and customers who want business as usual, so what's the motivation for finding new answers? New is bad. Wall Street accounting punishes expenditures for R&D and rewards managers who cut costs. Government is staffed by industry experts and trainees ...”