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The Siren Song of Cheap Natural Gas
The Wall Street Journal ran a good article recently on the "shale gale," a reference to the sweeping impact that newly discovered shale-gas reserves are having on energy policy. New cheap shale gas has created a tempting diversion for policymakers. They struggle to balance the low cost of natural gas against important but hard to... [read more]
Flex-Fuel Competition for OPEC?
An op-ed in this morning's Wall St. Journal by former CIA Director James Woolsey makes an interesting and seemingly pragmatic suggestion for improving America's energy security. [read more]
Wall Street Journal's Baloney on EPA and Carbon
They say passing legislation is like making sausage. Well, at the Wall Street Journal, writing editorials is like making baloney. On Monday the Journal unsurprisingly put its megaphone behind Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) to amendment to block EPA from curbing dangerous carbon pollution. McConnell’s amendment, which may... [read more]
Dan Yurman - Exelon to close Oyster Creek early
Deal with New Jersey will let it operate for 10 more years without having to build cooling towers No one is happy with the decision by Exelon (NYSE:EXC) to close its 615-MW boiling water reactor at Oyster Creek in New Jersey. The company made the announcement on December 8 that it would shut down the plant in 2019, just halfway... [read more]
Money flows for nuclear energy
Areva gets stake from sovereign wealth and House adds to loan guarantees Money is flowing to new nuclear projects. French state-owned nuclear giant Areva announced that Kuwait will take a 4.8% stake in the firm worth $795 million. The Wall Street Journal reported French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde made the announcement in Paris.... [read more]
WSJ: Forget the U.N. Climate Convention -- Rethink Innovation Instead
By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus The failure of the U.N. climate process is proof that shared economic sacrifice cannot be the basis of global action. Nations will not scale up clean energy as long as it remains so much more expensive than fossil fuels. Thinking past talks in Cancun, nations should focus instead on energy... [read more]
WSJ CEO Council Highlights Potential for Energy Efficiency in Buildings.
Last week the Wall Street Journal brought together nearly 100 CEO’s of major U.S. companies to discuss the country’s most important policy issues and the role they will play in fostering economic growth, strengthening the economy and driving job creation. After a day and a half of discussions, with guest appearances from the likes of Tim... [read more]
The sound and fury of the shale gas fracking debate
Holman Jenkins’s Wall Street Journal column on the shale gas fracking debate seems to be right on the money. Jenkin’s writes: As a report from the Houston investment firm of Tudor Pickering shrewdly predicted in June, there will be no fracking ban. Too much money, too many jobs, too much revenue for state government is at stake. Instead... [read more]
How Fast a Transition from Oil?
The Gulf Coast oil spill remains the top energy story this week, eclipsing a $10 drop in oil prices that should soon ripple through to gas pumps near you. With BP's latest effort to contain the spill having run afoul of a slush buildup composed of methane hydrate crystals, the deepwater well continues to leak at an undetermined rate.... [read more]
Oilpocalypse Now: WSJ reports BP oil disaster may be leaking at rate of 1 million gallons a day - Spill may exceed Exxon Valdez within days -- not weeks
If you live along the Gulf Coast or have expertise on offshore drilling and/or the near-impossible task of cleaning up these messes — and are interested in writing guest posts – please contact me (click here). Climate Progress will be following the BP oil disaster story closely for several reasons: It will be the... [read more]
Electric Cars and Natural Gas
Two items in the weekend Wall St. Journal caught my attention. The first concerned the mileage ratings of electric vehicles, with the EPA apparently reconsidering its initial methodology with an eye to making it better reflect reality. The second reported on a meeting of natural gas exporting nations, which seem to be backing away from... [read more]
Delaware Refinery Swims Against the Tide
When I saw this headline in today's Wall St. Journal, "Governor Stays Closure of Delaware Refinery," the first thought that crossed my mind was of King Canute and his order to stop the tide. Valero Energy Corp., which owns the Delaware City refinery, had announced last fall that it would be shut down and dismantled. That was a pretty... [read more]
Mustangs and CAFE Standards
Over the weekend a review of Ford's new 6-cylinder Mustang in the Wall St. Journal included an interesting perspective on the contribution of stricter Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to the production of a car that provides both better fuel economy and more horsepower than the preceding model, in the absence of market... [read more]
Gates and Chu talk small reactors
How a billionaire and a Nobel Prize winner can come up with better ideas by putting their heads together Billionaire Bill Gates and DOE Energy Secretary Steven Chu have something in common. Both are getting ink in the Wall Street Journal for their support of small reactors. Gates is supporting one through his foundation. It is... [read more]
Alice Pays a Carbon Tax in Wonderland
By Dave Rochlin - originally posted on care2.com Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Red Queen aren't waiting around for the climate bill. According to a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, Disney is making the company’s business units pay an internal tax based on how much carbon they use. Alice in Wonderland's filmmakers needed to... [read more]
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