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Count Him In One of two individuals in DOE's voluntary emissions program reports back	Mike Taylor	06 Oct 2006	Soapbox
I'll admit it: I'm different from most people. I have energy savings goals for my house and car. I usually shop at a local food co-op, paying more than I have to for organic items. I even work indirectly with renewable energy for a living. It wouldn't be that hard to be labeled an environmentalist, except I don't like that word because it turns so many people off (we like "-isms& ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living (all these topics)

I Saw the Sign How to tell future generations about nuclear waste	John Stang	08 Aug 2006	Main Dish
Think of a mummy movie -- any mummy movie. Treasure hunters enter a pyramid. The explorers either ignore or can't read the hieroglyphics warning of the curse that awaits those who open the 3,000-year-old sarcophagus before them. The mummy awakens and kills most of the cast. Rough translation: Seriously dude, do not open this door. Photo: iStockphoto If only those ancient Egyptians had done a better job ...
Topics: Department of Energy, toxics (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)

They Should Volunteer to Be Penalized for That Bush's voluntary emissions-reduction programs not amounting to much		26 May 2006	Daily Grist
They Should Volunteer to Be Penalized for That Bush's voluntary emissions-reduction programs not amounting to much Are you sitting down? We've got some earth-shattering news: the Bush administration's voluntary programs to reduce industrial greenhouse-gas emissions aren't working. A report issued yesterday by the Government Accountability Office stated that many industry participants in the U.S. EPA' ...
Topics: business, climate, Department of Energy, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Dirty Deeds Done Crappily Hanford nuclear-waste site is a big ol' mess		03 May 2006	Daily Grist
Dirty Deeds Done Crappily Hanford nuclear-waste site is a big ol' mess The cleanup effort at the nuke-waste-riddled Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is looking like one big fustercluck. The finish date has been delayed from 2011 to 2017 or later, extending the time that 53 million gallons of radioactive and toxic waste will sit in leak-prone tanks near the Colu ...
Topics: Columbia River, Department of Energy, news, nuclear power, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Yucca Fool Some of the People Some of the Time Feds won't press charges against scientists who falsified Yucca documents		26 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Yucca Fool Some of the People Some of the Time Feds won't press charges against scientists who falsified Yucca documents Scientists accused of falsifying quality-assurance documents for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste site in Nevada will not be charged by federal prosecutors. Emails between U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists from 1998 to 2000 indicate that dates were inve ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Rocky Amountin' High Landowners awarded $554 million for nuke contamination from Rocky Flats		16 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Rocky Amountin' High Landowners awarded $554 million for nuke contamination from Rocky Flats Thousands of Colorado downwinders got some vindication on Tuesday, when a jury ordered Dow Chemical and the former Rockwell International to pay $554 million in damages for plutonium contamination from Rocky Flats, a former nuclear weapons plant. It's the largest civil ver ...
Topics: Colorado, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

And You Were Worried! Expert panel backs Energy Department nuke-waste transport plan		10 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
And You Were Worried! Expert panel backs Energy Department nuke-waste transport plan An expert panel organized by the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that it's likely safe to ship tens of thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel to Nevada for disposal. After all, what could go wrong? [Spends a moment in terrified contemplation.] The panel reviewed the Department of ...
Topics: Department of Energy, National Academy of Sciences, Nevada, news, nuclear power (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)

And by 'More Money,' I Meant 'You're Fired' Federal renewable-energy researchers laid off as lawmakers divert funds		03 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
And by "More Money," I Meant "You're Fired" Federal renewable-energy researchers laid off as lawmakers divert funds In Tuesday's State of the Union speech, President Bush called for more funding to develop alternative energy sources. Meanwhile, in the real world, scores of staffers at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory are about to be laid off, and a pile of cont ...
Topics: Department of Energy, news, renewable energy (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)

Romancing the Stove States sue DOE, press for energy-saving standards for appliances		08 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Romancing the Stove States sue DOE, press for energy-saving standards for appliances New York City and 15 states have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Energy, saying the agency has failed to update energy-saving standards for nearly two dozen household appliances -- changes that would save gobs of energy. According to the suit, the DOE has violated mandates set by Congress 18 years ago to progressively ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, energy, news (all these topics)

EIA, EIA ... Oh Greenhouse-gas limits affordable, study says; 'Told ya so,' E.U. replies		20 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
EIA, EIA ... Oh Greenhouse-gas limits affordable, study says; "Told ya so," E.U. replies A new study by the Energy Information Administration, an independent arm of the U.S. Energy Department, reveals that mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions would not significantly affect the country's economic growth through 2025. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, the report contradicts the principal argument the Bush ad ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, news (all these topics)

The Phony Express Falsified Yucca documents lead to investigation of project's science		17 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Phony Express Falsified Yucca documents lead to investigation of project's science The use of fabricated sources in a study about the safety of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump -- revealed in a series of emails between scientists -- has Energy and Interior Department officials scrambling to investigate. The U.S. Geological Survey study was critical to the ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Department of Interior, Nevada, news, nuclear power, waste (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)

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)

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)

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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