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Graham and Kerry are in talks with White House “to discuss a possible compromise.” 0
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago Washington Post gets climate bill politics story backwards and buries the big news.
The Dalai Lama, a Nobel laureate, and a gym rat walk into a bar ...

Three faces of hope for climate change 3
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago After meetings with the Dalai Lama, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and President Barack Obama, Rep. Jay Inslee is brimming with optimism about our climate future. Find out why.
Steven Chu backstage at the Daily Show 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Smalls steps and giant leaps 3
Posted 4 months ago
Hillary Clinton visited India, which sees an increasing value in clean tech. Congress prepares for summer recess as Copenhagen climate talks loom ever closer, and George Will continues to test the limits of journalistic integrity. It's all in a week's worth of climate news.
cream pies, always funny

Steven Chu and cap-and-snooze on the Daily Show 4
Posted 4 months ago
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart delivered a twofer last night with a bit of cap-and-trade commentary followed by an interview with Dr. Nobel McGenius, Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Where will the puck be?

Chu: U.S. needs to be the Wayne Gretzky of clean energy 0
Posted 4 months ago
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Pools of oil, plumes of gas 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The Washington-to-Beijing diplomatic shuttle shows no sign of slowing down. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited China this week to prod collaboration on clean energy technology. Chu announced the U.S. would contribute $15 million to a partnership that will study how to capture carbon dioxide emissions and trap them underground. And that's just the beginning of this week's climate news.
Senate Environment Committee Hearing - July 7, 2009

Opening remarks from Chu, Jackson, Vilsack, Salazar and Barbour 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Copin' with Copenhagen

What is Obama’s international climate strategy? 9
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
International climate negotiations often seem like some sort of cosmic science fair project -- an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors. There's a lot of frantic running, a lot of sweat and heat, but in the end, very little light.

Faith in the UN climate process has dimmed. Joe Romm calls it a "dead man walking." The Copenhagen talks in December are generally discussed with the same dissonant mixture of urgency ("You have to do it in Copenhagen," says UNFCCC chair Yvo de Boer) and fatalism ("There is no movement," says German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel) as the last dozen rounds of international talks.

The Obama administration knows the danger of sclerosis and is working on several fronts to regain a sense of momentum.
New energy at DOE

Autos, smart grid and clean tech: DOE turns on the money 2
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Last week the Department of Energy released part of the $25 billion in loans provided for through the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, included in Section 136 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The delay in releasing these funds had been one of the longest running scandals in clean tech policy. Upon taking office, the Obama Administration vowed to expedite their release and Secretary Steven Chu had made finalizing rules needed to administer the program a key priority. In the first installment of the loans, Tesla, the VC-backed California maker of an all-electric sports car, founded by Ebay veterans, will receive $465 million to make its compact, all-electric Model S sedan. Ford will receive $5.9 billion to retool 11 factories across five states to improve the overall fuel efficiency of its fleet. Finally, Nissan will receive $1.6 billion to retool a factory in Smyrna, Tennessee, to make an electric vehicle that is being developed and initially manufactured in Japan. The remainder of the money will be released next year.
Feeling light-headed

Obama announces new efficiency initiatives as part of big clean-energy push 7
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
President Barack Obama doesn't think he can solve global warming by changing his f**king light bulbs, but he's going to do it anyway. More importantly, he's going to change the light-bulb industry. Get the scoop on energy-efficiency plans the president outlined on Monday.
Zen and the art of anxiety maintenance

Why I’m not freaked out about the Waxman-Markey climate bill 36
Posted 5 months ago
Will the Waxman-Markey bill spark a full-scale energy revolution? No. Not in the next 10-15 years. But I've been trying to focus on the bigger picture: will there be an energy revolution? The two questions are not the same; thinking they are is the road to freakout.
Chu & Obama are right to kill the program, Part 1

Hydrogen fuel cell cars are a dead end from a technological, practical, and climate perspective 6
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
I wanted to once and for all lay out the case against hydrogen as a transport fuel, starting with an excerpt of almost my entire Energy Policy piece. I think it is worthwhile reading for anyone interested in understanding the challenges facing alternative fuels.
The administration

Key Obama advisers on climate and energy 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
President Barack Obama's key advisers on energy and climate issues include a former top aide to Al Gore, a Nobel Prize winner, a governor, and a gaggle of former members of Congress. Meet them.
Don't hate, innovate

Boost innovation investments to make Waxman-Markey bill a game-changer 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
What does the Waxman-Markey bill do to promote clean energy innovation and game-changing technology breakthroughs? Not nearly enough.
It Could Be Verse

A climate-news poem for the week of May 25 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Can politicians save the world by hopping on a jet? If this week serves as evidence, the answer is "you bet."
The Climate Post: Something wrought in the state of Denmark? 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
A roundup of the week's climate news, from Copenhagen to China to Russia.
You Can Go Your Own Way

California plans no exit from hydrogen highway 39
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Energy Secretary Steven Chu may want to slam the brakes on future hydrogen funding, but California will continue to pay its own way down the Hydrogen Highway, infuriating electric vehicle advocates in particular.
Hydrogen car R.I.P.

Secretary Chu agrees with Climate Progress and slashes hydrogen budget 2
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Ethanol's Big Day

Barack gives biofuels the big thumbs up 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Obama administration came out big time today for biofuels.