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VIDEO: Jumpstart Clean Energy with a National Institutes of Energy
Thanks to Senator Brown's staff for providing this video of the September briefing on the Hill releasing a paper I co-authored with Avi Zevin and Josh Freed of Third Way's clean energy program, "Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a...
KPFA Radio: Former Sen. John Warner and WattHead's Jenkins Talk Climate Bill
I joined former Senator John Warner of Virginia on the KPFA Morning Show today to discuss Senate climate and energy legislation, the focus of hearings this week in the the Environment and Public Works Committee. (listen to the full interview below)...
The Innovation Consensus: $15 Billion for Clean Energy R&D
Energy innovation experts converge on need for $15 billion per year in increased R&D investment in final Congressional climate legislation$15 billion. That is the figure at the heart of a growing consensus of energy innovation experts, all...
Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs" Bill's Clean Energy Investments a Fraction of Expert Recommendations
By Jesse Jenkins and Yael Borofsky, originally at the Breakthrough InstituteThe latest draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" would invest less than $10 billion of the bill's nearly $80 billion in annual cap and trade...
ALERT: Blasting Begins on Coal River Mountain
An update from Coal River Mountain Watch and Appalachian Voices. You can take emergency action here.Mountaintop Removal Mining to Destroy 6,600 Acres-and Wind Potential Appalachian community advocates and environmentalists across the nation are...
Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown
Originally at the Breakthrough InstituteLate Friday night, Senator Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee released a new draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" (S.1733), the first version of the...
Greenpeace: Climate Legislation More Likely to Perpetuate Fossil Fuel Economy than Spur Swift Transition to Clean Energy
Originally at the Breakthrough InstituteClimate change legislation recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and now under consideration in the Senate will "succeed in perpetuating business as usual and fail to avert catastrophic climate...
Sen. Boxer Green Lights Senate Climate Debate
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said she's ready to green light debate by month's end on the Senate climate bill she has co-authored with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry (D-MA...
National Institutes of Energy Needed to Fill Energy R&D Gap
Originally at the Breakthrough InstituteFriday factoids time: The U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical industry invests between 10-20 percent of revenues in R&D and new product development, spending $58.8b on R&D in 2007. The U.S. government...
Climate Envoy: U.S. Unlikely to Commit to Emissions Target This Year
Originally posted at the Breakthrough InstituteA week of preliminary UN climate talks in Bangkok come to a close today with little concrete progress to show for it. With just two months left until much-anticipated negotiations in Copenhagen, it...
Dealing with Republicans
Over at Grist.org, Dave Roberts ponders the merits of a deal to entice Republican votes for climate legislation, and discusses the right ways to go about it. I actually spent a chunk of time yesterday leafing through the Republican "alternative"...
EU Set To Enter Clean Energy Race with $73 billion for R&D
By Yael Borofsky and Jesse Jenkins, originally at the Breakthrough InstituteEurope is planning to stage a grand entrance into the clean energy race by investing approximately $73 billion in clean energy research, according to Reuters, which has...
