WattHead - Energy News and Commentary by Jesse Jenkins
WattHead delivers news, original analysis, and opinionated commentary on the critical transition to a clean and prosperous energy future.
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Downright Paltry Private Spending
National Institutes of Energy needed to fill energy research and development gap 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago The U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical industry invests between 10-20 percent of revenues in research and development (R&D) and new product development, spending $58.8 billion on R&D in 2007. The U.S. government adds an additional $30 billion per year investment in biomedical R&D through the National Institutes of Health. In contrast, the U.S. energy sector invests well below $3 billion annually in R&D in an industry with well over a trillion dollars in annual revenue. Read More -
Jumpstarting Clean Energy
Report Pushes for More Research Investment and New National Institutes of Energy 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and leading DC-based think tank Third Way are the latest political figures to issue a call for significantly increased public investment to catalyze clean energy innovation. The Ohio Senator and the moderate progressive think tank joined the Breakthrough Institute today to unveil a new report calling for both the creation of a "National Institutes of Energy" and a dramatic increase in federal funding for energy research and development. The report, titled Jumpstarting a Clean Energy…
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Blast It, EPA: Make a Decision Already!
A moment of truth for Appalachia, Obama and EPA on mountaintop removal coal mining 4
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago A moment of truth has arrived for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and President Barack Obama, who has promised “unprecedented steps” to rein in the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining that is wrecking havoc across wide swaths of Appalachian mountains, valleys and communities.
Anti-mountaintop removal activists are hoping President Obama and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson are about to make good on past promises to crack down on the destructive practice.Courtesy Jesse Jenkins / Energy CollectiveEPA is expected to announce decisions this…
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Wind in Wall Street's Sails
Investment rushes into wind, but can we make it last? 2
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago After falling into the doldrums for the past six-months, the wind industry is roaring back to life thanks to direct public investments enacted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read More -
Show Me the Money!
U.N. climate chief: $300B needed each year in global climate fight 3
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago The global community should be investing $300 billion annually to combat global warming, according to U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer. Read More -
Having an IMPACT on Senate Climate and Energy Legislation
Ohio’s Sen. Brown calls for investments in clean energy manufacturing 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago Seeking to have an IMPACT on climate policy, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) formally introduced legislation this week to strengthen America's efforts to cut emissions and build a prosperous clean energy economy. Read More -
Breakthrough's rebuttal
Joe Romm’s strategy to lose the clean energy race 30
Posted 4 months ago On Monday, Joe Romm of Climate Progress publicly attacked us for publishing an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle -- called "Will America lose the clean energy race?" (a longer version was posted here at Huffington Post.). Here's our response. Read More -
The Sherrod Brown test
Finding consensus on climate policy 1
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago For advocates of immediate and strong climate and clean energy legislation, there's one man we should all be paying close attention to: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). Read More
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