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Is geoengineering ready for prime time?

October 18, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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2010 has been a bad year for climate, and an even worse year for climate policy. But for that very reason, it’s been a good year for geoengineering—the notion that humans can deliberately manipulate the climate and cool the earth. Official Washington is starting to take geoengineering seriously: The Government Accountability Office and a... [read more]

Doc alert: Preliminary Observations on Geoengineering Science, Federal Efforts, and Governance Issues

March 27, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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From the “What GAO Found” summary of Preliminary Observations on Geoengineering Science, Federal Efforts, and Governance Issues [PDF]: Substantial uncertainties remain on the efficacy and potential environmental impacts of proposed geoengineering approaches, because geoengineering research and field experiments to date have been... [read more]

Setting Ethanol Free

October 7, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued its report assessing the impact of the production and use of biofuels in the US. Among its recommendations was a call for the Congress to reassess whether corn ethanol still needs the support of a $0.45 per gallon blenders' credit, when its use by refiners and gasoline blenders... [read more]

Refinery outages generally have small effects on gasoline prices, GAO says

July 31, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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A study by the Government Accountability Office has concluded that gasoline refinery outages tend to have small effects on prices.  While large scale weather events like Hurricane Katrina and Rita did result in large prices increases, such events are rare, the study said. In other findings: Typical unplanned refinery outages... [read more]