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A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 2: Structural Advantages
Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute In Part 1 of our analysis of the new Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act, we demonstrated how the bill fails to make the investments needed to jumpstart a competitive American clean energy economy and fund...
Science Confirms the Abhorrently Obvious: Blowing Up Mountains Damages Environment, Human Health
Or should I say, the obviously abhorrent... The incredibly destructive coal mining practice known as "mountaintop removal" causes "pervasive and irreversible" damage to human health and the environment, according to an authoritative scientific...
Newsweek: Copenhagen R.I.P
Originally at the Breakthrough Institute Newsweek's senior science writer Sharon Begley doesn't mince words in her post-mortem on Copenhagen. Declaring "Good Riddance to Copenhagen," Begley writes:That sound you'll hear in 2010 is a can being...
Copenhagen: Obama Announces Climate Deal, UNFCCC Crumbles?
By Jesse Jenkins, Devon Swezey and Yael Borofsky, originally at the Breakthrough Institute In a late night press conference at the close of the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, President Obama declared that a "meaningful deal" had...
A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 1: Climate Goals
Originally at the Breakthrough Institute A new climate bill, introduced Friday by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), would invest only a tiny fraction of the bill's revenues to catalyze clean energy technology innovation...
Thoughts on Ending Energy Poverty and Copenhagen's Zero-Sum Game
Some food for thought here: Nathan Wyeth pens a very thoughtful column on the Copenhagen climate summit focused on the key challenges of fueling sustainable global development and expanded energy-access to the billions of energy poor worldwide, via...
New "Tri-Partisan" Climate Framework Aims to Clear High Senate Hurdle
Originally at the Breakthrough Institute Promising "we can and will pass climate change and energy independence legislation this Congress," Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) unveiled a new framework...
$10.5 Trillion by 2030: the Number that Should be at the Heart of Copenhagen Climate Talks
By Jesse Jenkins and Devon Swezey, originally at the Breakthrough InstituteForget 80% by 2050 and 17% by 2020. Time to stop fixating on 450 ppm vs 350 ppm. As UN climate talks kick off today in Copenhagen, Denmark, there's only one number really...
Climate Conundrum Continues in Run-up to Copenhagen
Originally a the Breakthrough InstituteThe United States may be stuck in the middle of a climate conundrum. A proposal to establish border tariffs to account for the carbon associated with the imported manufactured products, like steel, looks...
An Energy Collective Discussion: Overcoming Hurdles to Nuclear Power in the United States
[Update, 12/2/2009: Thanks to everyone who joined into this insightful discussion below. The Energy Collective readership and community is certainly a wealth of knowledge and perspectives and this experiment seems to have been a success. I've...
VIDEO: Is America Losing the Clean Energy Race?
The United States is quickly falling behind Asian rivals in the race to corner the burgeoning global clean energy market, according to a report released last week by the Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Information...
Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant - Overview
Asian Nations Set to Dominate Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States - New Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Innovation Institute report."Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate Clean...
