Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
Federal hearings start on question of how power plant coal ash should be regulated
Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
Earth To Greens: Forget About Cap And Trade And Start Over
Friday, July 30, 2010
EPA denies challenges to controversial endangerment finding
The serial failure of cap-and-trade strategy in U.S. Senate goes back to 2003
What are implications of climate-energy policy handled at state or reg. level?
China’s engines of economic development worsen air pollution
New York Times op-ed: Four things that killed the Senate’s climate bill
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Loan giants threaten energy-efficiency programs
Friday, June 25, 2010
Greatest threat to development of advanced coal technology is public’s naivety
Tennessee Sen. Alexander says biomass generation not able to replace fossil fuels
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Obama seeking new ideas on energy and climate
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Bulb cleans as it greens
Friday, June 4, 2010
EPAs stricter sulfur-dioxide emission standards, first revision in four decades
Court can’t hear climate change test case, setting up Supreme Court venue
Too many judges recuse themselves, not enough left for majority decision
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Most Americans want energy independence but are global warming skeptics
Profound disconnect’ of environmentalism is rejection of public preference, aspiration
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Turning trash into treasure
Friday, May 21, 2010
One Moos and One Hums, but They Could Help Power Google
Monday, May 17, 2010
World Warm, Chicago Cooling
Monday, May 3, 2010
BP says it's tackling oil spill, will pay claims
Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010
Residents voice sorrow, resignation, hope
Friday, Apr. 23, 2010
At 40, Earth Day is now big business
Friday, Apr. 16, 2010
Pundits, bloggers and politicos believe there’s no momentum for climate bill
Point: EPA’s evolution to ‘Government by, of and for The Bureaucracy’
Counterpoint: EPA is the ‘last, best hope’ for dealing with climate change
Friday, Apr. 9, 2010
Two-degree global warming control target was political invention, not science
(Editor’s Note – This lengthy but excellent series appeared in the German magazine Der Spiegel. Be sure
to read the Part 8 installment,” Invention of the Two-degree Target.”)
Al Gore splits with President Barack Obama over coastal-drilling issue
Democrats take aim at mining regulation in wake of West Virginia disaster
Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010
Big reversal: Obama opens much of Atlantic seaboard, northern Alaska to offshore oil drilling
Monday, Mar. 29, 2010
Wind turbines in Lake Erie could be built as early as 2012
Related: Confidence in Energy Star-rated products shaken after test revelations
Friday, Mar. 26, 2010
GAO’s probe of Energy Star certification sets off alarm bells
Friday, Mar. 19, 2010
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Obama swings for fence on climate change
Graham’s warning: Reconciliation maneuver on health care will hurt climate bill
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010
Senate trio meets with industry groups on outline of new climate legislation
Thur., Mar. 11, 2010
New poll: 48 percent of Americans believe global warming is ‘exaggerated’
Tuesday, Mar. 9, 2010
California’s climate change policy is driving jobs out of the state
Monday, Mar. 8, 2010
Cautionary solar energy tale for the U.S. to ponder: What happened in Spain?
Friday, Mar. 5, 2010
CCS project at West Virginia power plant ready to ramp up capacity
Full Fifth Circuit grants rehearing in climate change tort lawsuit
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010
President Obama outlines home energy retrofit program with $6 billion budget
Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010
Despite Obama’s loan guarantee pledge, financing a hurdle for nuke plants
Over 9 million U.S. households need assistance to pay winter heating bills
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010
‘Damaging mistakes’ cited as UN moves to review climate change panel
IPCC chief to face independent inquiry over performance of organization
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
Key Senate Democrats: comprehensive climate change bill unlikely this year
Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010
U.N. climate chief resigns
Friday, Feb. 12, 2010
Everything you wanted to know about Climategate (but didn’t read in the U.S.)
Climate change & energy issues meant record business for lobbyists last year
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
FirstEnergy and Allegheny Energy to merge in deal worth over $8 billion
Obama proposes establishing new agency to monitor climate change
Friday, Feb. 5, 2010
New White House plan supports development of up to 10 CCS projects
Obama directs Chu and Jackson to find ways to speed CCS deployment
Obama signals that cap and trade might be separated from Senate bill
Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010
Blankenship vs. Kennedy on future of coal and mountaintop removal mining
Monday, Jan. 18, 2010
Blogosphere ‘seething’ over perceived climate change science payola
Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
Controversial American scientist in midst of Climategate awarded stimulus funds
Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009
Top 10 energy stories from 2009 runs the gamut 2009
USDA’s Vilsack concerned over plan to turn farmland into forests
Obama administration promises loan guarantees to kick-start nuke plant program
Associated Press article distorted three scientists’ reaction to ‘ClimateGate’
Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009
New Uranium Mill May Be Coming Soon
Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009
In the end – and after two weeks of haggling – UN climate talks achieved nothing
Monday, Dec. 21, 2009
Copenhagen produces nonbinding agreement but no emission reduction targets
Nonbinding agreement ‘at best flawed, at worst chaotic,’ complains UK prime minister
Friday, Dec. 18, 2009
Obama to world: America will continue course on climate change
Latest Washington Post-ABC News poll shows no stomach for climate treaty
U.S. pledges $100 billion to poor countries for climate change with a big ‘but…’
Senate’s resident global warming curmudgeon warns Copenhagen delegates
More problems at Copenhagen: developing nations withdraw their cooperation
Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
EPA endangerment finding gives Congress another reason not to act on climate bill
Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009
Details sketchy, but Senate trio unveils outline of alternate climate bill approach
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
Financial reform efforts in Senate might lead to revision of cap and trade
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Harry Reid would like to see cap and trade disappear until after 2010
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
Sen. John Kerry targets ‘early spring’ of 2010 for attempt to pass cap and trade bill
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
Senate EPW Committee votes to advance Kerry-Boxer bill to floor
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
Ohio’s Voinovich pleads with Boxer committee to delay markup, but to no avail
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
Cap and trade could hike nation’s fuel bill by $3.6 trillion, warns Senator
Obama’s MIT speech to coincide with EPA analysis of Kerry-Boxer bill
Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
Energy industries splinter in disagreement over Senate CC approach
Beware unemployed bankers, capitalists looking to cash in on cap and trade
Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
CBO chief: Cap and trade will result in ‘significant’ job losses
Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
In Ohio, fear of cap-and-trade economic effect and growth of skepticism
Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
Washington Times special report on energy and climate change politics
Brown says he will back Senate bill if it includes incentives and protections
Recession and 26-year unemployment high could affect Senate bill appetite
Friday, Sept. 25, 2009
One-percent loss of GDP feared from cap and trade, according to Treasury memo
Profiting from cap and trade: AEP sees opportunities for business growth
Possibility of carbon-trading fraud raised in Senate hearings on cap and trade
‘CO2 is Green’ runs ads disputing climate change, plans lobbying effort
Friday, Aug. 14, 2009
NAM fears Waxman-Markey will lead to further job losses in U.S.
Report asserts Ohio could lose 108,000 jobs by 2030 due to cap and trade
‘Energy Citizens’ group forms to highlight flaws in climate change legislation
Friday, Aug. 7, 2009
EIA: Waxman-Markey bill will hike electricity prices 20 percent by 2030
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour blasts cap and trade at Aspen Institute Forum
Large IOUs & EEI v. electric co-ops in squabble over free emission allowances
House Democrats prepare legislation addressing ‘feed-in’ tariffs for small RE
What Boxer and Kerry got wrong about the real costs of clean energy
No energy label required for older homes in Waxman-Markey bill
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Senate concerns arise over potential abuse in carbon-trading markets
Consumer groups blast climate change bill over rate protection for big manf.
Wheeling and dealing injected last-minute amendments into House climate bill
Monday, July 20, 2009
Senate delays work on climate change bill until after August recess
Clean Energy Deployment Administration like Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae?
Joint university study shows cap and trade will exact heavy toll on farmers
Georgia ruling that planned power plant should have CO2 controls is overturned
Illinois FutureGen site passes environmental sniff test; DOE go-ahead pending
Thursday, July 3, 2009
Kaptur gets $3.5-billion power authority deal in exchange for vote
Promise of green jobs reportedly swayed OH House Dems to vote for bill
Space and Kilroy are among Dems targeted for blame in NRCC calls and ads
Waxman-Markey will eliminate jobs in eastern and southern Ohio, says coal group
‘Energy efficient’ Al Gore doesn’t travel to Washington to help Pelosi pass bill
Friday, June 19, 2009
No consensus yet on House Ag Committee about Waxman-Markey bill
Pelosi seeks GOP moderates’ support for House energy bill
National Farmers Union can’t support climate change bill in present form
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Cap-and-trade doomsayers proved right by CBO: $846 billion price tag seen
Southern governors – Democrats and GOP – voice concern about Waxman-Markey
Friday, June 5, 2009
U.S. House floor debate on climate change bill could occur before July 4
House Ag Committee might revise climate change bill for benefit of farmers
Speaker to House chairmen: Move bill by June 19 or lose jurisdiction
Friday, May 29, 2009
Latta: Ohio will be ‘whacked’ if Waxman-Markey bill gains passage
GOP lawmakers says Waxman-Markey declares ‘war on the Midwest’
Not all environmentalists pleased with climate change bill draft
Friday, May 22, 2009
Greens celebrate cap-and-trade victory — Cautiously
Global warming bill with cap-and-trade plan gains committee nod
Democrats may make trouble for climate bill
CBO letter gives climate change bill foes plenty of new ammunition
Waxman: ‘Shouldn’t shoot ourselves in head’ because of India and China
Friday, May 15, 2009
Waxman says cap-and-trade bill still on track to pass out of House committee
Revised draft calls for lower cap, 35% free permits for distribution utilities
Wrangling over draft climate change bill lowers renewable target to 15%
Friday, May 1, 2009
No markup of House climate change bill this week after moderate Demos balk
John Dingell Democrats uneasy about cap and trade
Industry testimony before House committee points to ‘adverse impacts’
Environmentalists and liberals concerned about passing the ‘Sherrod Brown test’
Special interests choose sides on Waxman-Markey climate change legislation
Thursday, Apr. 23, 2009
EPA declares six greenhouse gases ‘pollutants’ and aims at regulation
Hearings set to start on climate change legislation with Obama officials’ testimony
EIA: expect 1.6-percent drop in electricity consumption, 2.6 percent less coal burned
Government’s national PHEV goal for 2015 ‘fraught with difficulties’
TVA Congressional Caucus co-chairmen: Explore renewable options but not wind
Thursday, Apr. 9, 2009
Holdren hints Obama might be flexible on cap-and-trade auction framework
Overseas Internet hackers target electric grid controls in United States
In Spain, for every green job created, 2.2 other jobs lost, according to study
Climate change bill by Van Hollen calls for cap-and-trade dividend checks
Gallup poll cites ‘high level of skepticism’ about global warming reporting
Liberal, pro-environment groups fret that Americans are energy-environmentally stupid
Friday, Apr. 3, 2009
Senate vote roadblocks fast track of cap/trade in Obama’s budget measure
Recession could kill climate change legislation this year
Monday, Mar. 30, 2009
NE states regional carbon auction yields $117 million at $3.51 per allowance
Related: Utility sues over regional auction’s impact on long-term contracts
EPA sends global warming threat declaration to White House for review
New Gallup poll shows support for nuclear energy grows to 59 percent favorable
Fox News reports that Obama was involved in funding of Chicago Climate Exchange
Thursday, Mar. 5, 2009
Senate leader vows to package energy and climate change into a single bill
Bingaman says cap and trade will likely mix allowance awards and auction
U.S. Chamber rallying coal state lawmakers to oppose cap and trade
AEP CEO Morris crosses swords with Google’s green executive on RPS
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