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The Case for Keystone XL
Keystone XL Pipeline
More from around the web on the new State Department draft analysis of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which, again, proved the economic benefits and lack of negative impacts .[read more]
Playing Games with US Energy Security
Well, that didn't take long. The administration issued its decision denying the Keystone XL Pipeline application today, rather than using the remaining 34 days in the Congressionally mandated timeline to attempt to find a better solution. This is a prime example of what frustrates so many Americans of all political affiliations about how...[read more]
Congress Passes a Budget That Invests in International Efforts to Curb Global Warming (But Still Not Enough)
The long drama of whether or not the US Congress would invest in international efforts to curb global warming pollution or gut these investments is finally over – at least for the rest of this fiscal year. Last week President Obama signed into law a budget for the rest of this fiscal year (fiscal year 2011). Investments in...[read more]
The Fundamentals Haven't Changed
There's a transcript of a press briefing from Todd Stern, who was the US envoy to Copenhagen. Of course he's trying to put a positive spin on it. Naturally, some of the questions were about the new feature of weather weirding, the teapot tempest, of which there have been a few of late, especially on the east coast (burying Washington...[read more]
Climate vs. Security?
In the last few years I've watched perceptions of US energy security and climate change, the two main drivers of energy policy, converge gradually toward a general sense that smart climate policy will be good for energy security, and vice versa. There's even a growing understanding that a stable climate contributes to national security...[read more]
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“Exxon sells a great carbon dioxide stripping agent, a product known as Flexsorb, a sterically hindered amine.This doesn't mean that they're suddenly out of the climate change denial manufacturing business. One can be fairly certain that they continue to follow the tobacco company/lung cancer strategy of several decades ago. What their production of ...”
“So in the end, you do want to keep FFs and CO2 pumping into the atmosphere ?What I am saying is that any hard look at Nuclear power will note that it produces almost no CO2, and Very few deaths/illnesses when compared with other sources of power.I do conceed that current commercial nuclear technology is by no means ideal to my thinking. We know how to build nuclear plants that are Walk away safe ...”