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Nathan Lewis on Energy Realities: Can We Get to 80% by 2035?
Last week, President Obama threw down an ambitious national goal in his second State of the Union Address: by 2035, 80% of America's electricity will come from "clean" energy sources, double the share we now derive from clean sources. But what...
Breaking: Obama Administration Makes Defense of CO2 Regulations Top Court Priority
Defending regulation of greenhouse gases from court challenges will be a top priority for the Obama Administration's legal team this year, a senior U.S. Justice Department official said on Thursday.As the Environmental Protection Agency works to...
Economists Moving Beyond Carbon Pricing
Over at the Economist, Ryan Avent notes that economists are beginning to move beyond a simple reliance on carbon pricing as the sine qua non of climate policy:The typical baseline economist response to the problem of global warming is a very simple...
In 2011 GOP Flees from Greener Past
Here's an intriguing story to kick off the new year with a little retrospection...Flash back to 2008, and nearly all of the top GOP contenders for a 2012 presidential run were taking global warming pretty seriously and offering real, if measured,...
Energy Innovation 2010 - Event Recap and Videos
For 35 years, government and the market have been trying and failing to get energy policy right. Congress has failed to pass large-scale clean energy and climate legislation, while China and other competitors are moving aggressively to take the lead...
Obama Facing Tough Balancing Act as EPA Advances Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Facing environmental suits and court-imposed obligations, the Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to issue new rules to regulate climate destabilizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants and oil refineries, setting the Obama...
Presentation: "Where Good Technologies Come From"
Presentation: "Where Good Technologies Come From" [.pptx] This presentation was delivered by Jesse Jenkins (Director of Energy and Climate Policy, Breakthrough Institute) and Daniel Sarewitz (Director, Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, ASU;...
BREAKING: Republican Fred Upton Wins Energy and Commerce Committee Gavel
By Jesse Jenkins, reporting for the Energy CollectiveBreaking news from Capitol Hill this evening: Republican leaders have selected Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee when the GOP takes the gavel in 2011.The...
Energy Innovation 2010: Rethinking Energy Innovation
Leading think tanks sponsor day-long conference rethinking energy innovation in the United States: getting to scale, making clean energy cheap, securing American leadership. After two years of often-tumultuous debate in Congress, the national...
Scientists: Innovation Needed on Energy Storage, Grid
New innovations in energy storage, transmission, and the integration of variable electricity sources are necessary to enable renewable energy sources to contribute significantly to the U.S. energy supply, according to a new report from the American...
Educating the Energy Generation: Workforce Needs in Renewable, Nuclear Power Sectors
Today, the race for dominance in clean energy technology sectors pits the United States against the greatest international competition for a key emerging technology field than in any era since the Cold War race to lead in aerospace, computing,...
Phasing out Fossil Fuel Subsidies Will Help, But Only Innovation Can Make Clean Energy Cheap
By Jesse Jenkins, originally at the Breakthrough InstituteOver at theEnergyCollective.com, Tyler Hamilton dives into the International Energy Agency's newly released forecast of global energy trends (exec sum here [pdf]) focusing on the disparity in...
