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• faux-toshop

  Big Oil uses fake ‘Americans’ to attack fake ‘energy taxes’ 2

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 12:12 PM By Brad Johnson

  Big Oil is using fake “Americans” to defend billions in tax subsidies. The American Petroleum Institute is running full-page ads in Politico and Roll Call that attack Congress for “new energy taxes.” Check out the Photoshopped images. Read More

• The apple-pie-calypse is near

  A recipe for delish disaster: global warming hot apple pie 2

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 12:02 PM By Ashley Braun

  Just because the planet is turning up the heat, doesn't mean we should get out of the kitchen. The end of the world never looked so tasty. Read More

• money in the tank

  The do-nothing energy tax: $3 gasoline dead ahead 2

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 11:21 AM By Daniel J. Weiss

  The mounds of snow blackened by auto exhaust have barely melted in Washington, D.C, yet the Energy Information Administration’s Short Term Energy Outlook already predicts that average gas prices “will exceed $3 per gallon” in coming months. Read More

• Death of a Thousand Cuts

  A messy but practical strategy for phasing out the U.S. coal fleet 11

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 9:35 AM By Ted Nace

  How do you get rid of a bunch of old coal plants? Here are nine "knife cuts" that together could help kill coal power for good. Read More

• nocturnal emissions

  Why pricing emissions is the least important policy 13

  Posted 9 Mar 2010 3:54 PM By Gar Lipow

  Here's some historical perspective on why the public is right, and mainstream environmental groups are wrong. Historically U.S. infrastructure, the basis on which this nation developed, was never some magical response to supply and demand. Read More

• stick a never in their cap

  Can EPA run a cap-and-trade program? 3

  Posted 9 Mar 2010 3:52 PM By Michael A. Livermore

  The Obama administration has made very clear that they want Congress, rather than EPA, to take the lead in creating a national response to climate change. Despite their oft-repeated preference for congressional action, recently, EPA head Lisa Jackson had to once again reiterate that the agency had no plans to do a carbon cap. Read More

• open up the sun roof

  On rooftops worldwide, a solar water heating revolution 7

  Posted 9 Mar 2010 1:53 PM By Lester Brown

  The harnessing of solar energy is expanding on every front as concerns about climate change and energy security escalate, as government incentives for harnessing solar energy expand, and as these costs decline while those of fossil fuels rise. One solar technology that is really beginning to take off is the use of solar thermal collectors to convert sunlight into heat that can be used to warm both water and space. Read More

• Community solar gardens

  Posted 7 Mar 2010 7:53 PM By Tom Konrad

  A new bill being considered in the Colorado legislature would create "solar gardens." Solar gardens allow people to participate financially in owning part of a solar array even if they do not have a suitable site on their own property. Read More

• It's all accord-ing to plan

  India backs Copenhagen climate deal 4

  Posted 9 Mar 2010 9:51 AM By Agence France-Presse

  India has decided to formally back a climate change accord struck in Copenhagen last year that includes non-binding limits on global warming, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Tuesday. Read More

• swiping the magnetic strips

  South Korea unveils ‘recharging road’ for eco-friendly buses 5

  Posted 9 Mar 2010 8:21 AM By Agence France-Presse

  South Korean researchers on Tuesday launched an environmentally friendly public transport system using a "recharging road"-- with a vehicle sucking power magnetically from buried electric strips. Read More

• pass the pump

  American Petroleum tells lawmakers it supports carbon fee because it’s easier to demonize 2

  Posted 8 Mar 2010 4:18 PM By Brad Johnson

  The effort of Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to craft comprehensive clean energy legislation that caps global warming pollution has brought some positive words from Big Oil and their political allies. In particular, the senators are considering a proposal by ConocoPhillips, BP America, and Exxon Mobil to exclude petroleum producers and refiners from a carbon market and instead levy a carbon fee. Read More

• Is it a problem that more industry groups are meeting with key regulatory officials than enviros?

  Posted 8 Mar 2010 3:25 PM By Michael A. Livermore

  Some small hope has been renewed for a climate change bill out of Congress this year. But if the legislative process fails to produce a law, Obama's regulatory levers will become more and more important -- and how they evaluate new rules will come under scrutiny. Read More

• Cocaine addicts are snorting their way to a warmer world 3

  Posted 8 Mar 2010 3:13 PM By Ashley Braun

• Challenging conventional wisdom on renewable energy’s limits 15

  Posted 8 Mar 2010 6:47 AM By Sue Sturgis

• Using behavioral science to make smarter energy policy 50

  Posted 8 Mar 2010 11:20 AM By David Roberts

• Why are women being left out of climate decision-making? 5

  Posted 8 Mar 2010 8:25 AM By Elizabeth Becker , Suzanne Ehlers

• Is ‘Birdemic’ the best/worst apocalyptic thriller of all time?

  Posted 5 Mar 2010 4:15 PM By Ashley Braun

• U.S. stops short of protection for western sage grouse 2

  Posted 5 Mar 2010 2:01 PM By Agence France-Presse

• Why not structure climate bills to win popular support? 5

  Posted 5 Mar 2010 1:42 PM By Gar Lipow

• Murkowski to Senate: Drill the Arctic or my state gets it!

  Posted 5 Mar 2010 11:50 AM By Daniel J. Weiss

• E.U.‘s ‘carbon fat cats’ get rich off trading scheme, study finds 4

  Posted 5 Mar 2010 9:54 AM By Agence France-Presse

• Putting Wal-Mart’s green moves in context 13

  Posted 4 Mar 2010 10:39 AM By Stacy Mitchell

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