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Hutto you know? Cheney aide poised to head key division of Department of Energy	Kate Sheppard	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Washington Post reports today that F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, is likely to be appointed as a key official at the Energy Department. Hutto has been a leading opponent of environmental regulations within the administration. A promotion to assistant secretary for policy and international affairs would put him in charge of the department's policies on climate change. The DOE website says the assistant secretary serves as ' ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Dick Cheney, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Flush! Department of Energy flushes $15 million down the hydrogen toilet	Joseph Romm	17 Aug 2008	Gristmill
There are only three sure things in life -- death, taxes, and you won't be buying a hydrogen fuel cell car. Sadly, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has not gotten any of the memos (see 'Some clarity on the Clarity' and 'This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still dead'). As GreenCarCongress reports: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 10 cost-shared hydrogen storage research and development p ...
Topics: renewable energy, politics, Department of Energy, hydrogen (all these topics)

A future for FutureGen? Senate slips life support for 'clean coal' boondoggle into war supplemental package	Kate Sheppard	16 May 2008	Gristmill
Remember FutureGen, the pilot program that was supposed to yield the nation's first zero-emissions, 'clean coal' power plant? The one that even the Bush administration realized was a bad idea, after the price tag on the project ballooned to $1.8 billion? Well, some senators just don't want to see it die ($ub req'd). Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved language to force the Department of Energy to continue funding FutureGen until March ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Illinois, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Welcome NYT readers to the debate of the decade: Technology development vs. deployment We've run out of time to wait for an unknown techno-fix to save us	Joseph Romm	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Andy Revkin wrote in The New York Times last weekend about what I believe is the climate debate of the decade. This post will serve as an introduction to this crucial topic for readers new and old. I will devote many posts this week to laying out the 'solution' to global warming, and a few to debunking the 'technology breakthrough' crowd.Why do I write so much about this topic of technology development vs. deployment, especially when it sometimes seems like I am a ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Department of Energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, tech (all these topics)

Bodman as Orwell DOE erases 'most successful' weatherization program from website	Joseph Romm	10 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Late last week, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) raked Energy Secretary Bodman over the coals -- the best possible use for that fossil fuel! Within days of uncompassionately zeroing out the low-income weatherization program at a time of record energy prices, Bodman's DOE altered the DOE website. Until a few days ago, the website of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Weatherization Program describe the effort as 'this country's longest running, and p ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, politics (all these topics)

PastGen Department of Energy backs away from funding FutureGen project		29 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:04 PM on 29 Jan 2008 Well let us just pick our grinning jaws up off the floor: The U.S. Department of Energy has told lawmakers that it plans to pull funding for FutureGen, its ambitious and crazily expensive "clean coal" demonstration plant. The feds had planned to cover some three-quarters of the $1.8 billion price tag, and cited ballooning costs as its reason for backing out. The announcement pissed ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Illinois, news, politics (all these topics)

Stan, Stan, He's Not Our Man Nominee for federal fossil-energy secretary has strong ties to Big Coal		17 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 5:18 PM on 17 Dec 2007 From 2001 to 2003, Stanley Suboleski was chief operating officer of mining company Massey Energy, which faces $2.4 billion in fines for more than 4,000 alleged Clean Water Act violations at its coal operations in West Virginia and Kentucky within the past six years. It's only logical, then, that President Bush would nominate Suboleski, who is still an independent ...
Topics: coal, Department of Energy, energy, jackassery, news, politics (all these topics)

Oh, Sproat It All Yucca Mountain may be doubled in size, need more funding		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 05 Oct 2007 In a move sure to endear Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository to fiercely opposed Nevadans, the Department of Energy has proposed doubling its size. Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) concisely sums up the reaction of the sane: "Doubling the size of Yucca Mountain will only double the danger. This is not a bad dream; it's a nightmare." In addition, the DOE's Edward F. S ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, insanity, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Into the Breach DOE hasn't opened Yucca nuclear-waste dump, must pay millions for breach of contract		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:52 PM on 01 Oct 2007 As if the saga of Nevada's Yucca Mountain wasn't ridiculous enough, a court has ruled that the Department of Energy's failure to open the nuclear-waste repository on time will have a price tag of $116.5 million, payable to Xcel Energy for breach of contract. And just to remind you of the ridiculousness, in the words of Minnesota State Senator Ellen Anderson: &quo ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, litigation, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Yucca Rebuke A setback for Yucca Mountain nuke dump as judge denies water to project		06 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:11 AM on 06 Sep 2007 A federal judge poured cold water on the U.S. government's plans to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada this week -- or, more accurately, he left the feds high and dry. The Department of Energy has been seeking 8 million gallons of state-controlled water to drill test holes at Yucca Mountain; the state of Nevada, which wants to be rid of the dump, has said no ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

That's, What, Two Days in Iraq? U.S. Department of Energy to grant up to $385 million for cellulosic ethanol		01 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
That's, What, Two Days in Iraq? U.S. Department of Energy to grant up to $385 million for cellulosic ethanol The U.S. plans to sink up to $385 million into cellulosic ethanol, doling out grants for six bio-refineries across the nation. The funds, spread over four years, will cover up to 40 percent of a $1.2 billion push expected to result in annual production of more than 120 million gallo ...
Topics: cellulosic ethanol, Department of Energy, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

A Penny Saved Is a Penny Spurned Bush admin looks to cut funding for energy efficiency		01 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
A Penny Saved Is a Penny Spurned Bush admin looks to cut funding for energy efficiency To fund long-term research into speculative future energy sources, the Bush administration wants to cut guaranteed present-day energy savings: The proposed 2007 Energy Department budget would eliminate $152 million (roughly 16 percent) from its energy-efficiency programs. A program to improve the efficiency of heav ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Less Money, Mo' Problems Bush's 2007 budget slashes funding for energy conservation		09 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Less Money, Mo' Problems Bush's 2007 budget slashes funding for energy conservation When President Bush said "America is addicted to oil," we thought he meant that was a bad thing. Apparently not: Bush's proposed 2007 budget increases funding for oil and gas drilling on public lands and slashes $100 million from some of the Energy Department's most effective conservation programs. That incl ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Coal Reversal Climate campaigners warm to 'advanced coal' and sequestration, despite Bush backing	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Dec 2005	Muckraker
Climate campaigners warm to "advanced coal" and sequestration, despite Bush backing By Amanda Griscom Little 16 Dec 2005 Bush administration officials tried their darnedest to derail the international climate-change negotiations that wrapped up in Montreal last week. But in the midst of their bombastic no-no-no-ing, they did offer up one constructive idea -- a $950 million partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy and industry leaders to build FutureGen, a "p ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Porcine of the Times Bush administration launches cartoon conservation campaign		04 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Porcine of the Times Bush administration launches cartoon conservation campaign With gas prices already skyrocketing and home heating costs expected to follow, the Bush administration yesterday unveiled a long-term clean-energy and conservation program. Oh, wait, did we say "long-term clean-energy and conservation program"? What we meant was "cartoon character." Yes, yesterday the Departmen ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Building a Better Babel Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field		22 Feb 2005	Dispatches
To continue the conversation about the ostensible "death of environmentalism," we invited four next-generation leaders to discuss the issue with one another via email. Herewith, in almost real time, we are publishing their thoughts in our pages. All the participants are fellows with the Environmental Leadership Program, which works with emerging activists and professionals to inspire social ...
Topics: business, Death of Environmentalism, Department of Energy, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Power Back to the People Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field		22 Feb 2005	Dispatches
To continue the conversation about the ostensible "death of environmentalism," we invited four next-generation leaders to discuss the issue with one another via email. Herewith, in almost real time, we are publishing their thoughts in our pages. All the participants are fellows with the Environmental Leadership Program, which works with emerging activists and professionals to inspire socia ...
Topics: business, Death of Environmentalism, Department of Energy, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Playing Well With Others Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field		22 Feb 2005	Dispatches
To continue the conversation about the ostensible "death of environmentalism," we invited four next-generation leaders to discuss the issue with one another via email. Herewith, in almost real time, we are publishing their thoughts in our pages. All the participants are fellows with the Environmental Leadership Program, which works with emerging activists and professionals to inspire socia ...
Topics: business, Death of Environmentalism, Department of Energy, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Life After 'Death' Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field		22 Feb 2005	Dispatches
Life After "Death" Four emerging environmental leaders discuss the future of their field To continue the conversation about the ostensible "death of environmentalism," we invited four next-generation leaders to discuss the issue with one another via email. Herewith, in almost real time, we are publishing their thoughts in our pages. All the participants are fellows with the Environmental Leadership Program, which works with emerging activists and professionals to inspire s ...
Topics: business, Death of Environmentalism, Department of Energy, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Cuts Like a Knife, but It Feels So Wrong Details of environmental cuts in Bush's budget emerge		09 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Cuts Like a Knife, but It Feels So Wrong Details of environmental cuts in Bush's budget emerge Now that the nation's water is all cleaned up, the Bush administration has proposed sharply cutting a federal assistance program designed to help modernize aging sewer systems and prevent toxic runoff into streams and rivers -- from $1.35 billion in 2004 to $730 million. And now that th ...
Topics: Department of Energy, oceans, politics, renewable energy, water pollution (all these topics)

The Shallow End of the Secretarial Pool Senate confirms Bodman to head Energy Department		01 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The Shallow End of the Secretarial Pool Senate confirms Bodman to head Energy Department Sam Bodman's nomination to serve as energy secretary sailed through the Senate yesterday, despite his having little to no experience working on energy issues. Now he can get to work pushing Bush's big energy bill through Congress, fighting for the opening of the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., a ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats	Amanda Griscom Little	21 Jan 2005	Muckraker
The plotline sounds as absurd as a made-for-TV movie: An FBI agent exposes deadly contamination at an old nuclear-weapons plant, but the federal government conceals the findings. Years later, Congress votes to convert the tract into a wildlife refuge and open it to school field trips and public recreation. The site becomes a poster child for eco-friendly nucl ...
Topics: Colorado, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

What in the Sam Hill? Bush nominates little-known official to be energy secretary		10 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
What in the Sam Hill? Bush nominates little-known official to be energy secretary President Bush surprised D.C. insiders today by nominating a virtually unknown Treasury Department official, Sam Bodman, to serve as secretary of energy. "Sam who? I've never heard of this guy," said one energy-industry lobbyist, echoing what most everyone else inside the Beltway seemed to be thinking. A former chemi ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

You Put Your Right Foot in ... Shuffling is afoot in Bush administration's environment-related slots	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Nov 2004	Muckraker
There's so much talk of hirings, firings, retirings, and resignations at environment-related agencies in the Bush administration that it feels almost as though a whole new regime were coming in, when in fact we're likely to get four more years of the same policy aims. Ann Veneman (left) and Spencer Abraham. Photo: USDA. Departing at the cabinet level are Ann V ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Sorry, No Vacancy Washington initiative blocks further nuke-waste dumping at Hanford		03 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sorry, No Vacancy Washington initiative blocks further nuke-waste dumping at Hanford By a more than a 2-to-1 margin, Washington state voters passed Initiative 297, which blocks the U.S. Department of Energy from sending more nuclear waste to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the southern part of the state until current waste at the former nuclear-weapons facility is fully cleaned up. The measure ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, politics, Washington (all these topics)

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