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NRG Energy Hopes To Score Big With Solar

November 22, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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  The view from the NRG suite at Redskins Park The Washington Redskins played with enough energy to send Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys into overtime, but by the time the ‘Skins fell to their sixth consecutive loss, my host at Redskins Park  — David Crane, the chief executive of NRG Energy — had left. Actually, he... [read more]

Duke’s Jim Rogers leaves Chamber of Commerce Board

April 20, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Update: Spokesmen for Duke and the Chamber have informed the Wonk Room that Jim Rogers stepped down from the board only because he had served three consecutive two-year terms, and was required by the bylaws to cycle off. According to the Chamber, Rogers will rejoin the board in June. Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, a critic of the US... [read more]

Over 3,000 U.S. businesses push new ads for action on climate and clean energy jobs

April 8, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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A group of 3,000 national and grassroots companies are taking part today in a new national advertising campaign calling for swift action on energy and climate legislation. These businesses, including the groups American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE) and the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), range from national brands... [read more]

Big oil and coal jump on the natural gas bandwagon - But continue to oppose clean energy future

March 18, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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The natural gas lobby is fighting coal, whose lobbyists “continue to stress the economic advantages of the fossil fuel.”  And the coal companies are trashing natural gas in advertisements as having “higher and more volatile prices” (click here). But even as they lobby hard to prevent passage of comprehensive clean energy jobs and... [read more]

Is the UN climate chief abandoning a sinking ship?

February 26, 2010 by Dave Rochlin
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By Dave Rochlin - originally posted on care2.com The controversial former UN ambassador John Bolton famously said "If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." Now Yvo de Boer, the UN's executive secretary of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, is resigning, saying in a... [read more]

BP’s Exit from USCAP: An Alarm Signal?

February 23, 2010 by David Levy
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Four months is a long time in climate politics. Back in October 2009, the momentum toward a global carbon regime seemed ineluctable. President Obama held a super-majority in the US Senate, China appeared amenable to a deal, high-profile companies were defecting from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate action, and a... [read more]