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WSJ reporter knocks own editorial page for Chamber defense 4
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago It shouldn’t be surprising that Journal editorialists find themselves challenged by their own news staff.
weeding out weed killer

Water utilities lack proper filters for weed-killer 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer from their water supplies.
Removing roadblocks to the growth of renewables 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Can't we all be friends?

Solar wars 4
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Note to utilities: solar is popular with your customers.
Green jobs: debunking the debunkers 5
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
In response to my recent article digging into green jobs, a reader sent me a copy of a March paper by Andrew Morriss et al at University of Illinois that attempts to debunk green jobs myths. While I see major flaws in most green jobs papers I read, many of the myths cited by this paper are irrelevant to what I consider the most important questions.
And they call the other Buffett a parrothead

Warren Buffett repeats GOP talking points on energy plan 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Billionaire Warren Buffett keeps saying cap and trade will hurt consumers, especially the poor. Report after report concludes he's wrong.
SCREEEEECH 2
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
That, my friends, is the sound of the California solar market grinding to a halt -- which is exactly what will happen if we don't lift the cap on net metering.
Duke Energy: We can ‘decarbonize’ without painful electricity price hikes 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Major coal utilities are now publicly endorsing electricity decarbonization, an all but unimaginable position even 12 months ago.
A Trench View of the Climate Wars

Fighting Coal in the Rockies 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Fighting for the Waxman-Markey climate bill may be sexy and hip (and worthwhile), but here in the Roaring Fork and Vail Valleys of Colorado, without much fanfare, we are engaged in some trench fighting to solve climate change.
Brainstorm Green

Policy chatter is on everyone’s lips at Fortune’s green-business conference 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Fortune Magazine's annual Brainstorm Green confab brings together Fortune 500 types (naturally), green tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and enviros. As such it's a barometer for the state of green in the Green State.
Something New Under the Sun

PG&E signs first-of-a-kind space solar power deal 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Not many people I know think space solar is a low-cost, scalable solution.

Certainly it is worth pursuing any genuine low-carbon baseload power source if it can be practical and scalable — and affordable, which I would put at $0.15 a kilowatt hour or less for. The problem with space solar is that, like hydrogen fuel-cell cars, there is little chance it could be affordable until it is massively scaled up ...
Stop the auction permits before they kill again

Waxman bill threatens children and elderly, says very concerned power industry 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Reactions to the Waxman energy legislation are going to be pouring in over the coming days and weeks. On an early read, environmentalists are enthusiastic. But who is looking out for society's most vulnerable? Power companies, of course!
The end of an era

Closing the door on building new coal-fired power plants in America 2
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Off the Wald

Shoddy economics at The New York Times 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Joe Romm has done a pretty thorough trashing of Matt Wald's recent New York Times piece. Herein, I pile on.
Jim Rogers’ chutzpah, geothermal’s promise, Larson’s carbon tax, and efficiency’s returns 0
Posted 8 months ago
Me, in the L.A. Times on Los Angeles’ Measure B 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Big is beautiful if it breaks our dead-dinosaur addiction 34
Posted 9 months ago
On the verge of revolutionizing the U.S. power grid 8
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Waxman puts utility decoupling in the stimulus 8
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Oregon enviro group calls not for shutdown of coal plant, but for infusion of millions of dollars 19
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago