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Is Warren Buffet’s Utility Betting On Clean Energy?

January 27, 2012 by Joseph Romm
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Warren Buffet’s utility subsidiary, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, has made a number of large investments in renewable energy over the past few years. But the famed investor doesn’t exactly make environmentalists jump for joy. Buffett’s take on climate change has been schizophrenic, to put it kindly. [read more]

Warren Buffett’s BYD: Revving up, fast

May 16, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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(BYD's e6 electric car) Warren Buffett is a busy man, and never more so than during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meetings, sometimes called the Woodstock of capitalism, which attract thousands of people each year to Omaha, Nebraska. But Buffett found time during this year’s gathering to sit down for an hour with Chuanfu Wang, the... [read more]

Rolling Stone on “The Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb the climate catastrophe.”

January 9, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Rolling Stone has two pieces on climate politics in its latest issue, by Jeff Goodell and Tim Dickinson.  “Planet Earth 911” is on “Big Oil and Big Coal’s lobbying campaign to block progress on global warming,” and “The Climate Killers” is on Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Jack Gerard, Rex Tillerson, Sen. Mary Landrieu, The... [read more]

The Green Skeptic on Fox Business: Is Burlington Northern a Coal Play for Buffett?

November 3, 2009 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeToday, I appeared on Fox Business reacting to the Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway $44B acquisition of Burlington Northern. Brian Sullivan was working under the premise that the railway acquisition may have been a coal play on the part of the Master from Omaha. My views on coal and the need for... [read more]

AEHI picks new site for Idaho reactor

October 20, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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This is the third site selected in the firm’s search for a suitable location Alternative Energy Holdings Inc. (OTC:AEHI) announced Oct 20 it has selected a new site for its planned nuclear reactor in Idaho. The site in is Payette County, Idaho, some 60 miles northwest of Boise and about five miles northeast [at Stone Quarry Rd.] of... [read more]

Warren Buffett: “Doubling the carbon dioxide we belch into the atmosphere may far more than double the subsequent problems for society.”

August 19, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Okay, the NYT op-ed by the sage of Omaha, “The Greenback Effect,” is almost entirely about our economic crisis.  Still, it’s nice that one of our top economic gurus  understands global warming is nonlinear — and thinks enough people might understand that point so he can use it as a springboard for discussing monetary policy:... [read more]

Why Warren Buffett Is Wrong About Cap and Trade

July 14, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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I am reprinting a commentary for Bloomberg by Eric Pooley.  Pooley is a former senior editor of both Fortune and Time, who is writing a book about the politics of global warming.  Earlier this year, he documented the media’s mistakes and biases during the Lieberman-Warner debate in a must-read Harvard study [see How the press... [read more]

Buffett’s Chinese electric car company

April 13, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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If you think the American auto industry is in trouble now, just wait until the Chinese learn how to make great cars. And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week. BYD is an amazing company. It was started by a chemist and government... [read more]