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ExxonMobil Looking to Tilt Playing Field in Favor of Natural Gas?

February 2, 2011 by Rod Adams
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I just spent the past hour and 9 minutes listening to the ExxonMobile earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2011. The company reported some impressive numbers. Exxon recorded $9.3 billion in net earnings for the fourth quarter and $30.5 billion in net earnings for the year. The company generated $51.7 billion in cash flow and returned... [read more]

With Seconds on the Clock, Democrats May Waste Last Chance for Clean Energy Win

June 30, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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With the final seconds ticking down on the Congressional clock, President Obama and Senate Democrats emerged from a White House summit with Republican moderates Tuesday still lacking any plan to score a last minute win for clean energy. Wasted opportunity Establishing a price (any price) on carbon pollution through a(n increasingly weak... [read more]

Moving On: Democrats After Cap and Trade

June 22, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Now that Obama has officially opened the door to alternatives to the conventional cap and trade framework, Congressional Democrats are finally willing to admit the policy is dead and focus on finding an economically and politically viable Plan B. According to E&E (subs. req'd), efforts to formulate that Plan B have just begun and... [read more]

An Aside into Domestic US Politics

June 10, 2010 by Andrew Holland
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I have spent very little time on this blog delving into the US political debate about climate policy.  Frankly, in the short to medium term, it doesn't matter very much for security policy what any nation does.  Most scientists say that we're locked-in for the next 30 years or so with an escalating concentration of carbon and... [read more]

President Obama calls for a price on carbon. Will it work?

June 5, 2010 by Dave Rochlin
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Posted by Dave Rochlin - http://www.ClimatePath.org In a recent speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama called for a price to be put on CO2 emissions, in order to move us on the path towards renewable energy. He figures the market will help do the rest. " ...the only way the transition to clean energy will succeed is if... [read more]

A Carbon Price is a Bet America Needs to Make

May 26, 2010 by Sam Hodas
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by Josh Freed and Sam Hodas This piece was originally posted on Huffington Post. China today is driven by one number: eight. That’s the annual percentage growth in GDP China needs to lift the more than one-third of its population still mired in poverty into the middle class. That’s 600 million people in a country of 1.3 billion. And... [read more]

Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 5 – Priorities for Government and Industry … Continued…)

March 8, 2010 by Jim Burpee
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In our last post in this series, we looked at the first of five timely and relevant new priorities for governments and industry to address for the future of electricity. Here are a few more of these priorities, as I see them… Carbon Pricing   The vision of a unitary, fully interlinked global carbon agreement is... [read more]

Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 3 - From Regional Supplier to Global Problem-Solver?)

March 3, 2010 by Jim Burpee
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Admittedly, not all the trends identified in my most recent post in this series have positive implications for electricity; resource depletion, for instance, may entail costs and shortfalls for the sector’s water and material inputs, while climate change is not only a one-sided opportunity – it will also entail costly adaptation... [read more]

Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 2 - Energy Challenges in an Interdependent World

March 1, 2010 by Jim Burpee
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    Here, then, are some of the energy-related challenges that form the backdrop to our world’s heightened electricity expectations…   The last two decades have seen some extraordinary changes in the world – changes that have only been accelerating. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, centers... [read more]

Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 1)

February 24, 2010 by Jim Burpee
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Increasingly, observers are looking to electricity to address an array of major energy challenges confronting society.  Electricity is widely expected to play a greater role in the global energy system and in meeting societal needs than it has in the past. But if electricity is to answer this call, it must also be given the... [read more]

Oil prices: It's the economics

February 23, 2010 by Tim Haab
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Oil prices did spike to triple-digit levels in early 2008, then drop sharply. But think about the fact that right now, with the world economy still seriously depressed, oil is at $80 a barrel. This suggests to me that high oil prices are largely caused by fundamentals. And it also suggests that resource constraints will be an issue if... [read more]

What price carbon emissions?

September 4, 2009 by Tom Raftery
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Photo credit Pinot & Dita One of the reasons we are facing a climate crisis is because people have not been paying the full economic price for their carbon consumption. Had they been, we’d be living in a very different world today. A quick comparison of average car fuel efficiency in the US versus the EU (where fuel has typically... [read more]

How the Senate can fix cost containment in the climate bill with ‘price collar plus’

August 5, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The climate and clean energy bill that narrowly passed the House has three problems related to cost containment (CC) that the Senate should — and I expect will — address: Fence-sitting Senators (and industries) worry that its CC provisions aren’t hard-nosed and specific enough to protect the public and businesses from carbon prices... [read more]

What Role for U.S. Carbon Sequestration?

July 21, 2009 by Robert Stavins
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With the development of climate legislation proceeding in the U.S. Senate, a key question is whether the United States can cost-effectively reduce a significant share of its contributions to increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations through forest-based carbon sequestration.  Should biological carbon sequestration be part of the... [read more]

Rep. Waxman Responds to Breakthrough Institute, Criticizing Public Investment and Praising Offsets

June 29, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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By Teryn Norris Earlier today, Congressman Henry Waxman was asked to directly respond to the Breakthrough Institute's analysis of the American Clean Energy... [read more]