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Can Natural Gas Be a Bridge to the Low-Carbon Future?

December 6, 2011 by Fred Krupp
with 255 views

Natural gas production is at a crossroads. Abundant, newly accessible reserves make natural gas an affordable, low-carbon alternative to coal. Yet current production practices are under fire for compromising our water, air, and land. Environmental Defense Fund is looking for common-sense solutions that protect public health and the... [read more]

Energy Efficiency Fail: $20 Bills Hanging Out The Window

September 27, 2011 by Gernot Wagner
with 300 views

If you think energy efficiency is overblown, look no further than this window. [read more]

When Changing A Lightbulb Isn’t Enough…

September 1, 2011 by Marc Gunther
with 380 views

What have you done lately about climate change? In the last two weeks, about 700 Americans – with more to come – have been arrested in front of the White House, calling on President Obama to block the construction of the $7 billion, 1700-mile Keystone pipeline project that will bring Canadian tar sands oil to largest... [read more]

EDF Energies Nouvelles, Vestas Sign Major Wind Turbine Supply Agreement

July 6, 2011 by Nathanael Baker
with 491 views

EDF Energies Nouvelles (Paris: EEN.PA) and Vestas Wind Systems A/S (OTC: WESYF.PK) have come to terms on a conditional wind turbine supply agreement [pdf]. The contract calls for EDF to receive a minimum of 50% of its turbines for onshore wind installations in Europe and 30% of its turbines for American wind projects from Vestas.... [read more]

Update: Industry, Environmental Group Working On Shale Gas Drilling Rules

March 25, 2011 by Michael Giberson
with 130 views

Last November we noted that industry and environmental groups in Texas were working together on fracking disclosure rules. Earlier this month a bill was introduced in the Texas House that would establish disclosure rules for fracking fluids. Kate Galbraith reports in The Texas Tribune, “Texas Could Require Disclosure of Drilling... [read more]

Areva U.S. CEO updates nuclear bloggers 01/07/11

January 11, 2011 by Dan Yurman
with 1,274 views

Jacques Besnainou says the Calvert Cliffs III reactor project is alive and well Areva U.S. CEO Jacques Besnainou (left) told a conference call of nuclear bloggers on Friday Jan 7 that the Calvert Cliffs III reactor project is still moving forward. He said that Unistar and EDF, which now own the project, are proceeding with the... [read more]

UK market reforms will promote investment in nuclear energy

December 19, 2010 by Dan Yurman
with 2,121 views

Chris Huhe commits to keep the lights onWhen the current government took office in May 2010, Liberal Member and Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, (right) a British arch druid in the anti-nuclear movement, was widely quoted as calling nuclear energy as a "tried, tested, and failed technology." After less than a year of grappling with the... [read more]

From California: A Loud and Clear Message

November 12, 2010 by Fred Krupp
with 639 views

In the largest referendum on climate and clean energy this country has seen, California voters sent a loud and clear message to elected leaders across the country that the public supports action on climate change. California voters said yes to the clean energy economy this month when they defeated Proposition 23 by a wide margin. Supporters of the ballot measure, financed primarily by two Texas oil companies, tried to suspend California’s historic clean energy and air pollution standards by claiming that they would harm the economy — but Californians didn’t buy it. They know that we can have a healthy environment and a healthy economy at the same time. [read more]

Industry Carbon Lawsuits Suffer "Wardrobe Malfunction"

November 5, 2010 by nrdc switchboard
with 602 views

Yesterday I wrote about the Texas’s flimsy legal challenge to EPA’s initial steps to curb carbon pollution. Today let’s look at the lawsuits brought against EPA by Texas’s industry partners. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is leading a who’s who of American trade associations that, like Texas, are... [read more]

EDF Q1 Sales Up To EUR21.9bn On Acquisitions

May 11, 2010 by Michael Davidson
with 238 views

State-controlled French utility EDF, has reported sales of EUR21.9bn for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, an increase of 4.3% compared to EUR21.03bn in the same quarter of prior year. According to EDF, this growth is due to a positive scope effect of EUR1bn, consisting primarily of the acquisitions in November 2009 of SPE in Belgium... [read more]

Italy to select four reactor sites

February 10, 2010 by Dan Yurman
with 208 views

Government takes next steps in shift from fossil fuels The Italian government issued a policy statement this week identifying the site selection criteria to locate four new nuclear reactors. The first unit will break ground by 2013 and is expected to be in revenue service by 2020. Reuters reports that Italy’s biggest... [read more]

UK new nuclear build will not get government subsidies

January 22, 2010 by Dan Yurman
with 296 views

Taxpayers off the hook for cost of new plants (NucNet) The British government will not use taxpayers’ money to subsidize the construction of new nuclear power plants, Philip Hunt, (right) minister of state at the Department of Energy and Climate Change said Jan 21. In an online question and answer session with ‘The Guardian’... [read more]

Hopin’ on Copenhagen: Environmental Defense Fund's "what to expect"

December 7, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
with 84 views

The EDF has a “what to expect” post up about Copenhagen, Copenhagen Opens: What We Expect, and I think it very neatly summarizes what we should be hoping for: First we need to reduce emissions far enough and fast enough to keep warming below 2°C. An effective treaty must ensure carbon emissions decline across the globe, and that means... [read more]

Framework Deal for Repower Wind Turbines Signed

November 29, 2009 by Vicky Portwain
with 204 views

It was announced this week that German wind turbine manufacturer Repower signed a deal with French utility EDF for the supply of wind turbines for five wind farms in Canada. The framework agreement is for the supply of turbines totaling a capacity of 954 Megawatts for wind farms in Quebec, developed by Saint-Laurent Energies, a... [read more]

England will keep the lights on with nuclear energy

November 7, 2009 by Dan Yurman
with 301 views

A new generation of nuclear power stations will be built to prevent an energy crisis The award for decisiveness in energy policy this month goes to Ed Miliband, Energy & Climate Change Secretary (right) in the U.K. government who has committed the nation to “significant infrastructure construction” in the next decade. Miliband... [read more]