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A Burning Concern
North Carolina governor calls for better regulation of coal ash dumps 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) has endorsed legislation that would increase oversight of the state's coal ash dumps, the massive surface impoundments that power companies use to store the toxic waste left over after burning coal.
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Always look on the bright side of life
The faint silver lining of the Waxman-Markey clean-energy-mandates cloud 4
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Waxman-Markey bill would require that 20% of the nation's power supply come from clean energy (15%) and efficiency (5%) by 2020. But wouldn't the U.S. have reached those mild targets without any government intervention, through natural market growth? Would the bill's mandates have any effect at all?
A spate of recent analyses have argued that the bill's Combined Efficiency and Renewable Energy Standard, or CERES, would induce no new deployment of renewable energy over and above the business-as-usual scenario. In other words, they might as well not have bothered.
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