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- Dot Earth Blog: In Overheated Climate Fight, a Search for Common Ground4 February 2012, 10:45 am
A search for common ground among people deeply split over greenhouse-driven global warming. ...- Looking Forward, Fiji Turns to Its Canoeing Past4 February 2012, 12:27 am
The traditional canoe is at the center of several projects aimed at reducing Fiji’s energy consumption, providing cheaper transport, keeping local traditions alive and giving a boost to tourism. ...- News Analysis: New Data Not So Sunny on U.S. Natural Gas Supply3 February 2012, 5:34 pm
The Energy Information Administration estimated that there are 482 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in the United States, down from the 2011 estimate of 827 trillion cubic feet. ...- Green Blog: Report: Sierra Club Accepted Gas Industry Money3 February 2012, 11:14 am
An article raises the issue of whether the Sierra Club's support of natural gas as a "bridge fuel" was influenced by donations from the gas industry. ...- Green Blog: Coral, Part II: Is the Cold or Heat More Lethal?3 February 2012, 10:47 am
Researchers find that extreme cold induces acute stress in coral but that heat is ultimately more lethal. ...
- Democrats counter energy security claims about Keystone pipeline project4 February 2012, 5:30 am
Democrats allege the oil sands pipeline would do little to improve U.S. energy security....- White House gives up more Solyndra docs3 February 2012, 4:45 pm
While the White House called the GOP Solyndra probe a "fishing expedition," Republicans signaled no intention of letting up....- Lugar parries Waxman on Hoosier State pipeline interest3 February 2012, 11:53 am
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) is defending the Indiana government’s lobbying on behalf of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline a day after a top House Democrat raised questions about the effort.Lugar, a strong proponent of the pipeline, sent a letter across the Capitol on Friday to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), an outspoken critic of TransCanada Corp.’s proposed project to bring crude from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries.Lugar, whose office called Waxman’s inquiry “surprising,” said in th...- House Republicans want Justice to intervene in Solyndra fight with Obama3 February 2012, 11:34 am
“It is our belief that the subordination of the taxpayer’s interests was illegal,” 24 Republican lawmakers wrote to Holder....- Stearns expects Solyndra docs imminently, plans more hearings3 February 2012, 10:44 am
The lawmaker leading the GOP probe of the failed solar company Solyndra expects disclosure of more internal White House documents as soon as Friday.A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment midday Friday. The potential release comes as Republicans are weighing whether to seek contempt charges against the White House over what Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) calls an inadequate response to a November subpoena.“I think the White House indicated that there is more ...
- COAL: W.Va. thermal coal complex will idle production for lack of demand3 February 2012, 2:00 am
Patriot Coal Corp. will idle one of its thermal coal complexes in Boone County, W.Va., due to a lack of demand. Shares of the St. Louis-based company saw a jump…...- STATES: Texas drought finally weakens as winter rains drench state's northeast3 February 2012, 2:00 am
HOUSTON -- Severe drought conditions continue to ease over large parts of Texas, though officials remain concerned that the trend may not last. West and central Texas are still reeling…...- BUSINESS: Can 'gamification' make your life more sustainable?3 February 2012, 2:00 am
A service provider for the green consumer says it is revolutionizing the way people approach sustainability, and the key to that revolution, it says, is games. Recyclebank, a Philadelphia-based startup-turned international service provider, has spent the last five years developing programs that incentivize green activities through an emerging science called "gamification," or the use of game mechanics to modify behavior....- RENEWABLE ENERGY: South African firm taps BrightSource for study of solar options3 February 2012, 2:00 am
California-based BrightSource Energy will lead a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for a commercial solar plant to be built by the South African energy giant Sasol. The plant would…...- DROUGHT: Experts predict dry conditions in Texas will worsen3 February 2012, 2:00 am
This century's droughts in Texas have been the continent's most serious, and they are predicted to intensify, according to a panel of Columbia University climate experts who spoke in Washington…...
- RENEWABLE ENERGY: Calif. tries to clear barriers to small-scale projects3 February 2012, 5:01 am
SAN DIEGO -- California is more than a third of the way toward achieving Gov. Jerry Brown's goal for more community-based renewable power generation, but the effort still faces significant…...- POLITICS: Sierra Club disavows gas industry donations amid mounting criticism3 February 2012, 5:01 am
Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune is trying to explain more than $25 million in donations connected to natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy Corp. for the club's anti-coal efforts. The…...- BIOFUELS: EPA accuses Texas company of creating 48M fuel credits3 February 2012, 5:01 am
A Texas-based biodiesel company allegedly created more than 48 million fake renewable fuel credits, U.S. EPA said yesterday in a notice of violation to the company, Absolute Fuels. Absolute Fuels…...- NUCLEAR POLICY: 2 N.M. counties roll out red carpet for nuclear waste3 February 2012, 5:01 am
New Mexico's Eddy and Lea counties want America to send them its nuclear waste. County officials are offering to turn 1,000 acres in the state's southeast corner into a parking…...- NATIONAL PARKS: Who are those guys? Butch Cassidy vandals brought to justice3 February 2012, 5:01 am
Just because Butch Cassidy and his notorious gang occasionally dabbled in graffiti doesn't mean that today's visitors to the famous outlaw's old hideout on National Park Service land in southern…...
- Biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity2 February 2012, 7:22 am
Scientists are turning the term "power plant" on its head. A team of researchers has developed a system that taps into photosynthetic processes to produce efficient and inexpensive energy....- Powering pacemakers with heartbeat vibrations1 February 2012, 4:14 pm
Aerospace engineers have developed a prototype device that could power a pacemaker using a source that is surprisingly close to the heart of the matter: vibrations in the chest cavity that are due mainly to heartbeats....- Data storage: Magnetic memories1 February 2012, 8:28 am
Magnetic random-access memory based on new spin transfer technology achieves higher storage density by packing multiple bits of data into each memory cell....- New tool determines value of solar photovoltaic power systems1 February 2012, 7:49 am
Consistent appraisals of real estate outfitted with photovoltaic installations are a challenge for the nation's real estate industry, but a new tool addresses that issue....- Terahertz polarizer nears perfection: Research leads to nanotube-based device for communication, security, sensing30 January 2012, 3:26 pm
Researchers are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication devices, sensors and non-invasive medical imaging systems as well as fundamental studies of low-dimensional condensed matter systems....
- Back to the Public Service Board: Next Steps for Vermont Yankee4 February 2012, 2:04 am
The court ruled in favor of Entergy in the recent court case. In consequence, Entergy applied to the Public Service Board for a Certificate of Public Good for Vermont Yankee....- Raising the Efficiency of Solar Cells3 February 2012, 10:14 am
There’s a cottage industry in solar research involving the manipulation of quantum dots. Solar cells using these tiny particles of semiconductors are much less expensive to produce than traditional ones, because they can be made using simple chemical reactions. And scientists for a number of years now have been drawn to their ability to harvest invisible, infrared light in addition to visible light....- Science, risk management or just politics?3 February 2012, 8:55 am
An opinion piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal (Europe) on Tuesday (a few days earlier in the USA) presented the views of sixteen scientists on the issue of climate change under the heading “No Need to Panic About Global Warming“. Unfortunately there isn’t much in the way of science discussed and the reality of the policy world is very different from the story they have written....- Audio Archive: The Future of Oil & Gas: Exploring New Innovation in Old-Fashioned Energy3 February 2012, 8:39 am
Thanks to everyone who listened to last week's The Energy Collective's webcast, which originally aired on January 27, 2012. For everyon who missed it, you can find the audio below, and explore the accompanying slide material....- Predicting the Top Sustainability Stories of 20123 February 2012, 7:35 am
Last month I offered my picks for the Top Sustainability Stories of 2011. Here are my predictions for the Top Sustainability Stories of 2012. (It's a rugged mix of bad news and good.)...
- In Overheated Climate Fight, a Search for Common Ground4 February 2012, 10:45 am
A search for common ground among people deeply split over greenhouse-driven global warming....- A Shameful Attack on Free Speech by a Group Claiming to Speak for Coal-Dependent Workers2 February 2012, 9:34 pm
A coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist....- The Troubling Path from Pig to Pork Chop2 February 2012, 3:38 pm
A disturbing look at the unremarkably horrid life of an industrial pig....- Fresh Closeups of this 'Blue Marble'2 February 2012, 3:32 pm
New high-resolution views of Earth, humanity's only home for the time being....- Two Nobelists Offer Views of Human-Driven Global Warming2 February 2012, 9:41 am
More Nobelists convey their views of the evidence that humans are exerting a growing, and troubling, influence on the global climate....
- Breakthrough Analysis: New Air Pollution Rules Could Reduce US Electric-Sector CO2 Emissions By More Than 4 Percent30 January 2012, 9:30 am
By Alex Trembath and Jesse Jenkins Updated: This post was originally published on January 1, 2012. It was updated on January 27, 2012 to reflect the announced closure of six coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal-fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to...- The Other Side of the Biodiversity Crisis30 January 2012, 9:00 am
Visit almost any city in the US or elsewhere today, and you are likely to find restaurants from all corners of the world: Indian, Thai, Italian, American, you name it. Clearly, gastronomical diversity within cities has increased hugely over the past couple of centuries. Now go to a city in another country -- and the range of cuisines on offer is likely to be nearly identical. This is a hallmark of globalization: increased diversity locally, decreased diversity globally. As Breakthrough Institute...- Obama and the New Climate Centrism27 January 2012, 12:18 pm
By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama tacitly acknowledged how politically toxic climate change had become by not mentioning it once. His move angered many environmentalists who insisted there could be no significant action without a full-throated defense of the climate science against skeptics. But one year later, President Obama's shift can be understood as part of a new climate centrism, one focused less on climate science and car...- The Future of Global Climate Policy: Slowing Warming by Cutting Methane and Pollutants (Part 5)27 January 2012, 9:06 am
By Matthew Stepp, Clean Energy Policy Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Jesse Jenkins, Director of Climate and Energy Policy at the Breakthrough Institute It is time to take stock of our current climate trajectory, and consider what it means for climate policy. In Part 1 of this week long series, we argued that our current climate trajectory means we must 1) redouble efforts to reduce CO2 emissions as quickly as possible, and 2) we ...- Global Supply Chains and American Economic Competitiveness26 January 2012, 4:18 pm
In his State of the Union address, President Obama laid out his election-year vision for restoring America's global competitiveness. U.S. manufacturing figured prominently: Think about the America within our reach...an America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs...we have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back. Last weekend, the New York Times ran a long and important piece on why one particular high-tech product, Apple's ...
- Clean Energy: How Much Hot Air?3 February 2012, 9:41 am
NewScientist’s January 28 issue is likely to unsettle clean energy advocates — but it is worth the read. The cover article, “Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever,” posits that even renewable energy can warm the planet, and eventually change climate, if we continue to ratchet up power production to serve our ever...- Suntech, DuPont to Collab on Solar Backsheets, Supply Chain3 February 2012, 9:36 am
It's easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system's total cost and performance. For DuPont, its focus is of course on the materials side, from metallization pastes used to form contacts on the solar cell, to backsheet materials that protect the panels themselves....- DOE's Untold Impact on Solar3 February 2012, 7:30 am
The Obama Administration's $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program's deployed funds went to relatively low risk power plants that will catapult the U.S. to a leadership role in the utility-scale solar sector. This is hardly the hallmark of a "failed program." The program is akin to Shakespeare's King Henry V, who said as a del...- Wind Power to the South: AEP Contracts to Lower Electricity Costs3 February 2012, 7:01 am
In a series of deals the investor-owned utility says is good for consumers' wallets, American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) recently signed long-term power purchase agreements for a total of 358.65 MW of capacity from wind projects in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas....- NLP Solar Sales Training Live Webinar February 8th & 9th2 February 2012, 3:03 pm
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- A clean bill of wealth - Stuff.co.nz4 February 2012, 9:00 am
A clean bill of wealthStuff.co.nzAnd cleantech advocates say New Zealand has the natural advantages to become a world leader: we already do renewable energy (79 per cent of electricity), meaning we are less tied to increasingly scarce fossil fuels, we export, we have free trade with ...and more »...- County approves tax break for 'green' energy - Fremont News Messenger4 February 2012, 6:37 am
County approves tax break for 'green' energyFremont News MessengerFREMONT -- Sandusky County commissioners voted unanimously to designate the county as an alternative energy zone, which will provide tax breaks to green energy industries moving to the area. The decision was made Thursday as German-based wind turbine ...and more »...- Lawmakers seek new source for energy fund - Brattleboro Reformer4 February 2012, 1:54 am
Lawmakers seek new source for energy fundBrattleboro ReformerBy CHRIS GAROFOLO / Reformer Staff BRATTLEBORO -- Faced with an uncertain financial future with the soon-to-expire clean energy fund backed by Vermont's sole nuclear plant, lawmakers and public service agents are investigating a variety of options to ...and more »...- Free Renewable Energy Grant Workshop - PR.com (press release)4 February 2012, 1:12 am
Free Renewable Energy Grant WorkshopPR.com (press release)Kingsport, TN, February 04, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) at ETSU and the Kingsport Office of Small Business Development & Entrepreneurship (KOSBE) and Aries Energy will host a Renewable Energy Grant Workshop ...and more »...- White House energy official tours DM - Arizona Daily Star4 February 2012, 12:25 am
White House energy official tours DMArizona Daily StarNancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild tour Davis-Monthan Air Force Base's alternative-energy projects. Sutley was here on Friday. A smorgasbord of new clean energy projects at ...White House officials check out D-M's green technologyKVOA Tucson Newsall 3 news articles »...
- Tests: No Radiation Increase After Nuclear Reactor Power Failure4 February 2012, 10:30 am
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Emergency Management Agency officials say lab tests show no measureable increase of radiation after steam was released to cool a northern......- Colo. Blizzard Aftermath: 600 Flights Cancelled, 6 Feet Of Snow4 February 2012, 8:09 am
DENVER — A stretch of Interstate 70 reopened Saturday morning, after near-zero visibility had forced officials to close all 160 miles of the westbound lanes......- Ed Stump: PHOTOS: Joining The Antarctic Swim Club4 February 2012, 7:25 am
I heard a muffled swoosh, and a soft, but urgent, "Ed." When I looked around, there was Harriet, up to her armpits in water, leaning out of a large hole in the ice....- Al Gore: Antarctic Glaciers and the Global Water Crisis4 February 2012, 7:08 am
From the ice melting in Antarctica, to rising sea levels flooding Bangladesh, to the prospect of a compromised drinking water supply in New York City, the world's glaciers tie together our greatest challenges of the 21st century....- Who's For Congressional Insider Trading? An Inside Trader4 February 2012, 6:08 am
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Richard Burr's vocal opposition to the STOCK Act raised some eyebrows in Washington this week, and with good reason. Burr, a North......
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- Fluor to Build 125 Megawatt Solar Energy Facility in Arizona3 February 2012, 5:00 am
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- Exclusive: How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry—and Why They Stopped [UPDATE]2 February 2012, 3:35 pm
Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to find the right line on shale natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal—according to most scientists—and produces far fewer air pollutants. That was enough for many major green groups to give support to gas as a “bridge fuel” [...]...- A Nuke Scare in San Diego Shakes an Already Nervous Public1 February 2012, 3:07 pm
If you’ve felt jumpy since Fukushima, you’re not alone. Even the tiniest burp from a nuclear power plant gets people fearing the worst, so it was scary news indeed when the San Onofre plant in San Diego County announced at 6:30 PM (PST) on Tuesday night that one of it’s reactors might have begun leaking [...]...- Invaders: How Burmese Pythons Are Devouring the Everglades31 January 2012, 10:25 am
Burmese pythons are eating machines. An adult snake can grow to nearly 20 ft., and it can eat everything from raccoons to bobcats to deer to alligators, killing its prey by constriction and then swallowing them whole. On the jungle food chain, Burmese pythons rest near the top. Burmese pythons are also — as the [...]...- Paying for Nature: Dow’s Environmental Bottom Line30 January 2012, 3:00 am
A year ago I traveled to Detroit to moderate a discussion between Mark Tercek, the head of the Nature Conservancy (TNC)—one of the biggest green groups in the U.S.—and Andrew Liveris, the CEO of Dow Chemical. They were in town to talk about an innovative collaboration that would help TNC develop strategies that would help [...]...- LEED From Behind: Why We Should Focus on Greening Existing Buildings27 January 2012, 10:12 am
In an era of LEED-certified construction and growing concern for sustainability, it comes as a surprise that constructing new, energy-efficient buildings can be less eco-friendly than renovating old ones. A study by the Preservation Green Lab of the National Trust for Historic Preservation shows building reuse almost always has fewer environmental impacts than new construction—which means we’d [...]...
- Drought May Cause Shutdown of Texas Rice Production4 February 2012, 8:05 am
By Andrew Freedman, in a Climate Central repost Although recent rains have put a dent in the Texas drought, a day of reckoning looms for the state’s long-grain rice growers, who pump millions into the economy in Southeast Texas each year and account for about 5 percent of America’s rice production. Come March 1, if [...]...- Open Thread Plus Classic Toles Climate Cartoon4 February 2012, 5:49 am
A cybernickel for your thoughts — yes, I want thoughts that are 5 times as valuable as usual! To inspire you, this classic Toles cartoon:...- Romney to Nevadans: I Don’t Know ‘What The Purpose is’ of Public Lands3 February 2012, 1:58 pm
(Hint: They Pump $1 Billion into the State Economy and Support 13,000 Jobs) by Jessica Goad, cross-posted from ThinkProgress Green Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney likes to sing about America the beautiful, but he mainly seems interested in mining it. In an interview with the editorial board of the Reno Gazette-Journal last night, Mitt Romney [...]...- Video: The Man Who Lived on His Bike For 382 Days3 February 2012, 12:40 pm
I love riding my bike. But clearly not as much as Guillaume Blanchet, who “lived” on his bicycle for 382 days in Montreal — cooking food, showering, shaving and reading his email. Blanchet’s short film, “The Man Who Lived on His Bike,” is a delightful celebration of the bicycle. Perhaps it should mandatory viewing for [...]...- Putting a Freeze on Arctic Ocean Drilling: America’s Inability to Respond to an Oil Spill in the Arctic3 February 2012, 10:25 am
Have we learned nothing from the disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Below is the summary of a comprehensive report on the inadequate disaster response capabilities in the Arctic. by Kiley Kroh, Michael Conathan and Emma Huvos When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in the early [...]...
- California’s Grid System Operator Confronts the Prospect of 33 Percent Renewables by 20203 February 2012, 1:00 pm
Building enough new solar and wind capacity to meet California’s 33 percent renewables by 2020 mandate will not be easy -- but reliably getting the electricity generated by those resources to the places where it will be consumed may be even tougher. That is the responsibility of the California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO). The ISO has just released a five-year strategic plan that lays out what needs to be done in four steps. First, according to the ISO’s CEO St...- Multinationals Invade Scotland for Offshore Wind Wealth3 February 2012, 12:30 pm
Samsung Heavy Industries just made a 100-million-pound ($158 million) commitment to offshore wind in Scotland, where the harnessing of far-offshore, deeper-water wind was first proven. This investment in the future of offshore wind follows a 100-million-pound commitment from Mitsubishi Power Systems and a 40-million-pound ($63.3 million) commitment from Spanish wind turbine manufacturing giant Gamesa. With Scotland’s 206-gigawatt offshore resource virtually untapped and the U.K.’...- You Can’t Outsource Retrofitting a Window3 February 2012, 11:30 am
Lisa Jackson, the administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, headed to Mission Motors in San Francisco on Thursday to talk about clean jobs. The company, which plans to double its workforce this year, is being highlighted as a shining example of using American ingenuity to build something -- in this case, electric powertrains for motorcycles and vehicles -- that contributes to a “green” economy and “green” jobs. But there are opportunities far outsi...- GM Releases Smart Grid APIs for Chevy Volt, via OnStar2 February 2012, 3:19 pm
We’ve had a rash of smart grid-to-plug-in car mashups so far this year, including Ford’s new mobile app for its upcoming Fusion PHEVs, and BMW picking Tendril for an EV-home charging demo. On Thursday, General Motors jumped in with a call to developers to use its plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt as a smart grid asset. GM’s OnStar service has opened up the application programming interfaces (APIs) to demand response, time-of-use rates, charging data exchange and “aggrega...- Who Are the Smart Grid Players to Watch in 2012?2 February 2012, 11:00 am
Last week, GTM Research unveiled its latest smart grid research report, The Networked Grid 150: The End-to-End Smart Grid Vendor Ecosystem Profiles and Rankings. This article is the second in a series of perspectives from the report's author. To read the first perspective, click here. While The Networked Grid 150 'Top 10 Vendors in Smart Grid', which we announced here last week, includes many of the well-known, established players in the field, the majority of the firms included ...
- OriginOil Creates New Green Jobs in Mexico, U.S.4 February 2012, 10:20 am
The algae biofuel company OriginOil is starting to rev into commercial production and that could mean good news for green jobs in the U.S. – and good news for the U.S. Navy, too. The latest step is a new partnership with [...] Related posts: New Mexico Creates Green Collar Jobs with Solar PV Plant OriginOil Milking Algae for Oil Obama Highlighting How Energy Efficiency Legislation Creates Green Jobs ...- 10-Year-Old Creates/Discovers New Energy-Storing Molecule (Video)4 February 2012, 9:11 am
A 10-year-old at a Montessori school in Kansas City, Missouri has now been published in a leading theoretical chemistry journal. Why? Well, playing with molecule-building toys in a lesson, she happened to create one that no one had thought up before, one that could potentially “store energy, create [...] Related posts: Storing Solar Energy Indefinitely: A “New” Energy Storage Approach from MIT Moves Forward [VIDEO] Storing Renewable Energy in Boxes of Air New(ish) Method for S...- Brad Pitt & Saudi Arabia Oil Minister Rockin’ It! (Videos)3 February 2012, 6:57 pm
Well, this was a good week for people calling out the problems of burning fossil fuels, especially oil! As I shared over on Planetsave today, Brad Pitt went out of his way in a Daily Show interview with Jon Stewart this week to [...] Related posts: Saudi Arabia says it Deserves Share in $100 billion International Climate Change Fund Could Saudi Arabia Become the Next Solar Market Hotspot? Foreign Windpower Giant Iberdrola Taps Saudi Arabia of Wind Because We Can't ...- India Crushed World in 2011 Cleantech Investment Growth3 February 2012, 8:32 am
For those eager to overlook words, note the important word “growth” at the end of the title above—India didn’t crush the world in cleantech investment in 2011 (as you know if you’re a regular reader here on CleanTechnica) but a recent report by Bloomberg New Energy [...] Related posts: Investment in Solar Continued Strong in April (Dominated Cleantech Investments) Cleantech Investment Sees Huge Increase, Creams Record in 2010 Cleantech’s Revolutionary Growth ...- EnerDel Battery Customers Sticking by Its Side3 February 2012, 8:07 am
EnerDel (aka Ener1) got hit with some big troubles recently as a company it was heavily invested in and reliant on (Th!ink Global) recently went bust. Result: bankruptcy. But, over on Gas2, Chris looks into this story in a little more detail and also notes that EnerDel’s customaers appear to [...] Related posts: American Battery Maker Seeks Goal to Mass-Produce Lithium-Ion Battery for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles IBM Working on EV Battery with 500-Mile Range Machine Invents New Li-ion Batt...
- This Week in Clean Economy: Pressure Is on Obama to Finalize National Solar Plan3 February 2012, 8:00 am
Advocates trumpet the nation's first solar plan on public lands and urge quick action. Election-year debate over jobs spills into U.S.-China solar spat. By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News Pressure has begun to build for President Obama to make good on his State of the Union pledge to greenlight vast solar installations on public lands by year's end, with supporters seemingly...- Canada, Alberta to Unveil Oil Sands Monitoring Plan Today3 February 2012, 5:25 am
(The Canadian Press) Alberta and the federal government are expected to reveal some of the details of their long-awaited plan to track the environmental impact of oil sands development later today. Alberta Environment Minister Diana McQueen and her federal counterpart, Peter Kent, have scheduled a joint news conference for early afternoon. ...- Authors of WSJ Climate Piece Have Industry Ties, Report Finds2 February 2012, 8:44 am
(The Daily Climate) Half of the 16 scientists who penned a controversial Wall Street Journal opinion piece proclaiming there is "no need to panic" about global warming have ties to either the oil and gas industry or groups dedicated to debunking climate science, a DailyClimate.org investigation has found. Read original story ...- Interior Vows 'Major' Offshore Wind Move2 February 2012, 3:44 am
(The Hill) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will be in Baltimore Thursday to roll out the next steps in the department’s efforts to spur construction of offshore wind farms along the Atlantic Coast.The department isn’t saying much, other than promising a "major" step towards development off the coasts of Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware. ...- Greening of Building Sector on Track to Deliver Trillions in Savings by 20301 February 2012, 11:30 am
Report based on DOE's revised long-term projections of energy consumption in the building sector points to dramatic impact of energy efficiency. By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News Architecture 2030, a building sector research and advocacy group, issued a report last week asserting that the greening of the U.S. building sector is on track to deliver far more energy savings th...
- Draft Interior reg would require fracking fluid disclosure on public lands - GOP energy-infrastructure bill has bumpy road - Dems hold Keystone hearing - Sierra Club took natural gas cash3 February 2012, 7:31 am
Draft Interior reg would require fracking fluid disclosure on public lands. ...- Wind energy's Republican friends - The real story behind GOP's drilling bills - Who's making bank on Energy & Commerce? - Club for Growth attacks House transpo bill2 February 2012, 7:31 am
Wind energy's Republican friends. ...- Fracking's safety record under attack - GOP plans tweaks to drilling bills - Gas developer takes issue with EPA over pollution inquiry - Mica has advice for those on the hot seat1 February 2012, 7:30 am
Fracking's safety record under attack. ...- House GOP to unveil drilling-for-infrastructure bill - Whitfield feels abandoned on rescue attempt - New Keystone poll numbers - Steven Chu's trials and tribulations31 January 2012, 7:39 am
House GOP to unveil drilling-for-infrastructure bill. ...- GOP to link Keystone, new jobs bill - Drilling, infrastructure measure to get House fast track - Is EPA to blame for coal layoffs? - Internal emails: BP knew of top-end spill rate potential30 January 2012, 7:30 am
GOP to link Keystone, new jobs bill. ...
