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Last night the US House of Representatives passed the compromise tax bill without any amendments and by a healthy margin, though narrower than the 81-19 vote in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill now goes to the President for his signature. The provisions added after the initial negotiations between the White House and Republican... [read more]
Climate hawk Tom Perriello says cap-and-trade vote had little to do with his defeat
He thinks his support of cap and trade had little to do with his defeat. He said it seemed in Tuesday’s election that congressmen who supported cap and trade fared better overall than those who did not. That’s from a Martinsville Bulletin piece today on Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA). He was citing post-election analysis that found nearly two... [read more]
GOP Vows to Continue Climategate Investigations if They Win the House
by Zachary Shahan, ecopolitologyYes, the illegal hacking of people's private email accounts, the out-of-context quotes pulled from decades of emails, and the excessive media coverage of a false scandal may not be over. While leading scientific bodies conducting multiple independent reviews of these emails have found that the scientific... [read more]
Top House races between climate heroes and deniers
Yesterday, the Wonk Room identified six key U.S. Senate races in which a climate vote is threatened by a global warming denier (and one open race in New Hampshire that could add a new vote for climate). Today, we’re taking a look at the U.S. House of Representatives. We’ve identified eight top House races in which a strong supporter... [read more]
House Fails to Pass America COMPETES Bill
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives failed in its second attempt to pass the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, a flagship bill for U.S. competitiveness containing broad support for science and technology innovation, including funding authorization for energy innovation and education programs. The bill, which was re-introduced... [read more]
Doc alert: Geoengineering hearings
The US House of Representatives, in the form of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee, decided to look into that whole geoengineering thing: Subcommittee Examines Geoengineering Strategies and Hazards: Today, House Committee on Science and Technology’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee... [read more]
Carbon Offsets Reduce Compliance Costs
In the emerging carbon economy‚ projects that reduce‚ eliminate‚ or sequester carbon emissions will have enormous value. An examination of climate change legislation recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives1 indicates how important such projects will be and the many questions that remain about them. Those who participate in... [read more]
House Committee Cuts Funding for Obama's Energy Education Initiative
By Devon Swezey, Breakthrough FellowCross-posted from Breakthrough InstitutePresident Obama's national energy education program designed to create a generation of clean energy innovators has been cut from $115 to $7 million by a House subcommittee. The cuts could mean that fewer than 100 scholarships, not 1,500 scholarships, will be... [read more]
Less Driving
Over at Streetsblog, Elana Schor discusses some principles Jay Rockefeller and Frank Lautenberg have set out for new transportation legislation: Reduce national per-capita motor vehicle miles traveled on an annual basis; Cut national motor vehicle-related fatalities in half by 2030; Cut national surface transportation-generated carbon... [read more]
"Small but much appreciated" victory for public transportation in the final House Simulus Bill
After the disappointment of learning that only 1.2% of the stimulus bill would be dedicated to public transportation, I reached out a policy analyst at Building America's Future, a coalition led by Governor's Ed Rendell and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Mike Bloomberg that is lobbying members of Congress to increase funding for our... [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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“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.”