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Women and nuclear awareness

October 13, 2010 by Joseph Koblich
with 867 views
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By Kelle Barfield Clearly, our attempts to generate greater understanding of energy challenges exclude no member of the public. Young and old, Democrat and Republican, male and female–all must be the aim of public information about U.S. energy policy in general and nuclear energy in particular. Years of industry surveys, however,... [read more]

Climate Change and Local Public Health in the United States

May 21, 2010 by PaulB
with 305 views
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While climate change is inherently a global problem, its public health impacts will be experienced most acutely at the local and regional level, with some jurisdictions likely to be more burdened than others. The public health infrastructure in the U.S. is organized largely as an interlocking set of public agencies at the federal, state... [read more]

Gallup Gets It Wrong with Economy vs. Environment Poll

March 18, 2010 by Tim Hurst
with 640 views
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If you had to choose between feeding either your son or your daughter, which one would you pick? Which do you give greater priority to, having gas in your car’s fuel tank or tires on your car’s wheels? Which is more important to have in your home, running water or electricity? Tough questions, right? Not only are they tough, they also... [read more]

Survey: Utility execs pro-nuke climate skeptics

February 18, 2010 by Todd Woody
with 190 views
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In The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about a survey of U.S. utility industry executives and insiders conducted by Black & Veatch: American utility industry executives see nuclear energy as the most promising carbon-free power source, are skeptical of climate change science, and are uncertain about the future, according to a... [read more]

Friday Factoids: Clean Energy R&D Top Policy Response Finds Yale Poll

February 5, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
with 112 views
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At long last, here's your Friday Factoid for the week: Yale just released the latest iteration of their "Climate Change and the American Mind" tracking polls. Once again (this has been a consistent finding), the poll shows funding for more research on renewable energy is the most popular policy response to climate change across all... [read more]

American Voters Prefer Carbon Tax over Cap-and-Trade, 2 to 1

February 3, 2010 by Tim Hurst
with 471 views
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Survey shows that American voters prefer a straight carbon tax over cap-and-trade as a policy option to address climate change. As the climate policy debate heats up again on the Senate floor, there has been lots of talk about whether a cap-and-trade to control greenhouse gas emissions–one similar to the House’s American Clean Energy... [read more]

"Survey of 144 top economists finds strong consensus for climate action"

November 5, 2009 by John Whitehead
with 66 views
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From the inbox comes evidence that "elite economic experts" (smacks of elitism) consider global warming a problem and think incentives might matter:Most expert economists agree: reducing our greenhouse gas emissions can help avoid a major economic malfunction. Those are the findings of a survey conducted by the Institute for Policy... [read more]

Tracking Public Perceptions (Part 3): Electricity Price Trade-offs

September 28, 2009 by Jim Burpee
with 254 views
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In my previous posting I highlighted the importance that electricity customers place on the price they pay, and shared data that showed price-related concerns have risen to an all-time high.  In my final post about CEA’s 2009 Public Attitudes research I want to focus again on price, but this time in terms of the relative importance... [read more]

Volatile prices decrease consumer satisfaction with Texas competitive retail suppliers

August 20, 2009 by Michael Giberson
with 103 views
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From a press release by J.D. Power and Associates: Wide fluctuations in electricity prices during the past year have led to a decrease in overall customer satisfaction with residential retail electric providers in Texas, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Texas Residential Retail Electric Provider Customer Satisfaction... [read more]

Climate quote of the day (and analysis)

July 10, 2009 by John Whitehead
with 121 views
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"Can anyone honestly say that the head of an American household would not spend a dollar a day to safeguard the well being of his or her children?" Jackson asked the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.Well, geezus, if you phrase it that way only a heartless son-of-a-gun would be against it ...But the committee's top... [read more]

Who are we?

May 14, 2009 by JoshGordon
with 170 views
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I did a recent survey of TEC participants. I thought you would like to see the results! You are part of an active and influential community in a variety of ways. Roughly a third of you are introducing new energy technologies, actively blogging,  advocating and Lobbying, or are Involved with environmental activism.  Those of... [read more]

Hope and caution

March 18, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
with 72 views
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The cognitive upheaval continues over climate chaos as we learn more about how the planet works and especially how it responds to sudden jolts (like all that CO2 we keep dumping into the atmosphere), and then that knowledge seeps through the infosphere, traveling from experts to laypeople. This process of information propagation is... [read more]

Hatfields and McCoys? Not really....Scientists Pretty Much Agree: Global Warming is Man Made

February 1, 2009 by Henry Gentenaar
with 141 views
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ScienceDaily reports on a new survey conducted in late 2008 by  Peter Doran, University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, and his graduate student partner Kendall Zimmerman. A group of 3,146 earth scientists from around the world overwhelmingly agree that in the past 200-plus years,... [read more]