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Defusing Misinformation About "New" Chernobyl Study Before it Has Too Much of a Head Start

November 12, 2010 by Rod Adams
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Immediately after the November elections in the United States, Dr. Helen Caldicott, a well-known antinuclear activist from Australia, offered commentary for publication by the Huffington Post titled simply The Election. A part of her message was another round of fire in of what I believe will be a lengthy campaign leading to a loud... [read more]

How Government Land Can Jumpstart the Clean Energy Economy

October 28, 2010 by Teryn Norris
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Originally published at the Huffington Post Recent trade disagreements and Interior Department activities have brought to bear a crucial difference between China and America’s policy approaches to their respective clean energy industries; namely, that when America talks about providing capital, it is really only dealing with half... [read more]

New evidence on the job impacts of climate policy: Why now is the right time to cap carbon

May 25, 2010 by Nathaniel Keohane
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This was originally posted on the Huffington Post. Opponents of climate legislation often claim that now is the wrong time to put a price on carbon, with the economy just emerging from a recession. But a must-read study released by the well-respected, nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics shows that the reverse is... [read more]

Round One of the EPA "Coal Ash Bowl" Goes to Big Coal

May 5, 2010 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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Originally posted at Huffington Post Yesterday, the EPA issued their long-awaited proposal for new rules on how to regulate the disposal and storage of coal combustion waste (CCW), the byproduct of coal-fired power plants. Since December of 2008, when more than a billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled into the Emory River from a... [read more]

Straight Talk about Safety Rules

April 27, 2010 by Jane Van Ryan
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The Huffington Post published an article today that alleges Big Oil tried to stop the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) from promulgating new offshore safety rules before the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig accident. It's not true. Here are the facts. API supports the implementation of an effective safety and environmental... [read more]

Deniers declare war

April 23, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Clive Hamilton has a post at HuffPo that takes a devastating look at the criminal, and in some cases terrorist, tactics the climate change deniers are employing. Go read it all, but here’s a sample (emphasis added): Climate denial has outgrown the early lobbyist strategies of oil corporations and conservative think tanks. Since... [read more]

Hansen calls climate change “predominant moral issue of the 21st century,” slams Congress, Cantwell-Collins

April 7, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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The country’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, writes in HuffPost: The predominant moral issue of the 21st century, almost surely, will be climate change, comparable to Nazism faced by Churchill in the 20th century and slavery faced by Lincoln in the 19th century. Our fossil fuel addiction, if unabated, threatens our children... [read more]

Answer to Carl Pope at the Sierra Club

March 7, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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Ignoring the fundamentals of electricity supply won’t change reality One of America’s top environmental leaders thinks expanding loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants is a bad idea. Carl Pope, (right) the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, writes in the Huffington Post that Congress should not approve the $36 billion increase... [read more]

Drivers of Preference: Why Consumers Will Buy Green

February 3, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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This Huffpo repost is by Richard Seireeni Brand, Architect, and author of “The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands” Seventh Generation may be the market leader in eco-friendly household cleaning products and is unquestionably dedicated to environmental and social responsibility, but these are not... [read more]

Green Jobs: A Down Payment on the Workforce of Tomorrow

January 10, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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The Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, has a good HuffPost piece on “Green Jobs” I’m reprinting here: Over the last year, the Obama Administration has been focused on many issues, none more important than creating jobs. We are working hard to sustain economic growth and spur renewed hiring for millions of Americans who need and want work... [read more]

The most important investment that we aren’t making to mitigate the climate crisis

January 2, 2010 by Barry Brook
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Another crisp piece from Steve Kirsch on HuffPo that I’d like to reproduce on BNC, for completeness. (For his other posts on the IFR, click here). If you want to get emissions reductions, you must make the alternatives for electric power generation cheaper than coal. It’s that simple. If you don’t do that, you lose. ————————————————-... [read more]

Financing a Real Deal in Copenhagen

December 16, 2009 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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At the international climate talks going on right now in Copenhagen, Denmark, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to launch a major assault on global warming. Besides deciding emission targets and the legal structure of an agreement, commitments for long-term financing for developing countries to help green their economies and cope... [read more]

Suicide by politics, and other acts of insanity

December 8, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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Bill McKibben has a longish, insightful, and disturbing piece up at HuffPo, Why Politics-As-Usual May Mean the End of Civilization, that deserves your attention. I can’t do it justice with pulled quotes, but let me give you just a couple and encourage you to click through and read it all. Moving by increments: it frustrates the hell... [read more]

Berlin ‘89: When the Impossible Became Real

November 11, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Sometimes change can happen much faster than people expect.  If we pass a domestic climate bill, as Sen. Baucus (D-MT) and other key swing Senators now believe is likely, and that enables an international climate deal, then I do think that will usher in a much more rapid decarbonization than most people expect.  Continuing the... [read more]

Energy Secretary Steven Chu on home weatherization: Saving money by saving energy

October 31, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The guest blogger today is the Nobel prize-winning Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, by way of HuffPost.  As you’ll see, he’s the mirror image of Bush’s Energy Secretary (see “Bodman as Orwell: DOE erases ‘most successful’ weatherization program from website“). I’ve always been a bit of an energy efficiency nut. I’ve made it my... [read more]