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With Seconds on the Clock, Democrats May Waste Last Chance for Clean Energy Win
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]
Can a coal-carrying railroad be green?
Recently, FORTUNE sent me to Omaha to write this story about the Union Pacific, America’s biggest railroad. Impressive company in a fascinating industry without which our lives would be very different. Here’s how the story begins: The strawberries on your cereal. Your laptop, cell phone, and TV. The coal that’s burned to power them. The... [read more]
Moving On: Democrats After Cap and Trade
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]
Smooth Talking Coal King, Establishment Environmental Leaders, Politicians and Cap And Trade Fix
Businessweek has published a fascinating article by Eric Pooley titled The Smooth Talking King of Coal - And Climate Change that should be required reading for anyone who is interested in understanding how business leaders, establishment Environmental group leaders, and ambitious politicians can come together to concoct a scheme to skew... [read more]
Audio Archive: Climate Legislation in the US Senate: Will Obama Get a Bill?
Following closely on the much-anticipated release of the proposed Kerry-Lieberman Senate legislation (until recently known as the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman legislation), The Energy Collective brought together energy experts and a key legislator from the U.S. Senate to examine and debate the bill in an interactive online forum. How will... [read more]
Further Delays for the US Climate Bill
Just in time for the UN summit in New York next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned earlier this week that due to the Senate’s busy schedule it might not act on a comprehensive climate change bill until 2010. Health care and regulatory reform are also high on the Senate’s agenda, and according to Reid’s statement, the... [read more]
Dingell: Climate bill’s chances in 2008 “verge on impossible”
E&E News (subs. req’d) has a good article on the prospects for climate legislation in an election year — note at the end that House Republicans are going to oppose any serious, mandatory action: Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) sees this year’s wide-open presidential election campaign as presenting a significant hurdle that could stymie... [read more]
America's Climate Security Act
About a year ago I posted the opinion poll in the right hand column. The question reads: How likely do you think it will be that at least one branch of Congress will pass meaningful global warming legislation next year? No question about it (13%) Very likely, but not certain (12%) 50/50 (13%) I wouldn't put money on it (29%)... [read more]
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Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
Posted May 11, 2012 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Siemens develops ABS plastic alternative
Posted May 9, 2012 by Doris de Guzman
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Reduce CO2 and Slow Global Warming?
Posted April 30, 2012 by Willem Post
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Hidroenergia 2012
May 25, 2012, Wroclaw, Poland
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WGC 2012 - 25th World Gas Conference
June 4, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ecwatech 2012
June 4, 2012, Moscow, Russia
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Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More »
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Jesse Jenkins is the director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute. More »
Robert Rapier works in the energy industry and writes and speaks about energy and the environment. More »
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“Cities will need to be retrofitted, as a whole. There's much work to be done. Vertical farming and other forms of energy/space/agriculture integration will be necessary to further sustain how humans live on this planet.”
“David,Reserves, potential resources and production are not interchangeable, and apocalyptic statements that depend on conflating them are thus fundamentally flawed. Your cogent analysis makes this crucial distinction well. It just needs a bigger audience.”