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It Was Just My Ecomagination
GE kicks off ambitious green initiative |
Amanda Griscom Little |
10 May 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Last night, General Electric Chair and CEO Jeffrey Immelt canoodled with Congress members and industry top brass at a swish cocktail party on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., celebrating the launch of "ecomagination," an initiative he announced earlier in the day to ramp up development of clean technologies and lighten the company's Goliath-like environmental footprint. GE's ... |
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| Topics: business, coal, energy, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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The LNG-est Yard
Activists fight new round of proposed LNG terminals |
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09 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The LNG-est Yard Activists fight new round of proposed LNG terminals While President Bush extols the virtues of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in speeches, energy companies have been at work, planning some 50 new LNG import terminals across North America, most slated for U.S. ports. Meanwhile, citizens and officials in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island, where new terminals are proposed ... |
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| Topics: energy, Mexico, natural gas, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?!
Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado |
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09 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?! Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado Some 36 years ago, the Atomic Energy Commission and a Texas oil company put a nuclear bomb in an 8,000-foot shaft on Colorado's energy-rich Western Slope and detonated it, hoping to reach a reserve of natural gas lying beneath the subterranean rock. T ... |
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| Topics: business, Colorado, energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news, nuclear power, oil (all these topics) |
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Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges
Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum |
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09 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum President Bush hearts nuclear -- or in the argot of the day, nucular -- claiming that a boost in nuclear energy could reduce oil imports and help America reach the Shangri-la of "energy independence." But people who, um, know stuff about nuclear energy are highly skeptical. There are some ways that nuclear could m ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, oil (all these topics) |
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Sunny Size Up
World's largest solar power plant planned for Portugal |
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06 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Sunny Size Up World's largest solar power plant planned for Portugal The world's largest solar power station, which would cover over 600 acres and could produce up to 116 megawatts of electricity, is planned for an economically depressed yet sun-drenched corner of Portugal. The almost $550 million project, if approved by the Portuguese government, would effectively reclaim an abandoned fool's-g ... |
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| Topics: energy, European Union, news, Portugal, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Oil Really Is a Lubricant
Diverse groups, unlikely allies join fight for energy independence |
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05 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Oil Really Is a Lubricant Diverse groups, unlikely allies join fight for energy independence Military officials, environmental activists, and others from across the political spectrum are speaking up about the need for radical change in American energy policy. Over the last year, a number of labor groups and think tanks have joined the chorus, releasing detailed plans for reducing oil imports. Last month, the Ene ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, non-government organizations (all these topics) |
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Jagged Little Drill
Cornerstone environmental law, NEPA, under fire in energy bill |
Amanda Griscom Little |
05 May 2005 |
Muckraker |
| When the energy bill sailed through the House of Representatives late last month, the media reported that it was the same old grotesquely corpulent package that the GOP leadership had previously tried -- and failed -- to pass through Congress four times in the last four years. This is true. But what flew under the radar were a few new provisions snuck in at the 11th hour by Rep ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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Play Economisty for Me
U.K.-based weekly Economist exhaustively analyzes global oil situation |
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04 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Play Economisty for Me U.K.-based weekly Economist exhaustively analyzes global oil situation Market-lovin' U.K. weekly The Economist has a cover package on oil this week. The major topic, of course, is the recent spike in oil prices. The grumpy Economist editors are bothered by what they consider some pervasive myths. First, "energy independence" is a chimera as long as we're burning oil; oil is fungible and price h ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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No Nukes Is Good Nukes
An interview with longtime anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott |
Gregory Dicum |
03 May 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Helen Caldicott. Photo: Greg Barrett. In 1971, Helen Caldicott had an epiphany: all life on earth could end at any moment, simply because a few pig-headed people imagined they could "win" a nuclear war. A decade later, she had given up her promising medical career to devote her life to nothing short of saving the world. Her urgent Australian twang became a sane voice ... |
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| Topics: energy, interview, nuclear power (all these topics) |
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They Did It Norway
Norway's high gas and auto taxes lead to lower gas consumption |
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02 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| They Did It Norway Norway's high gas and auto taxes lead to lower gas consumption Americans, who view cheap oil as a divine birthright and throw a tantrum when gas prices exceed $2, would surely view Norway as a strange and alien land if they, ahem, knew anything about it. Despite the Scandinavian country's huge oil reserves -- it is the world's third-largest exporter of black gold -- gas prices hover around $6.66 ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, Norway, oil, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Access of Evil
Gas drilling limited by equipment, workers -- not access to federal land |
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28 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Access of Evil Gas drilling limited by equipment, workers -- not access to federal land To hear the Bush administration tell it, domestic energy production is limited by lack of access to federal lands. Vice President Dick Cheney is galled that "large parts of the Rocky Mountain West are off-limits." But according to government records, industry experts, and local offici ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news (all these topics) |
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Will & Disgrace
Louisiana environmental advocate forced out of job by state attorney general |
Amanda Griscom Little |
28 Apr 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Willie Fontenot (center) surrounded by ExxonMobil security guards. Photo: Stephen C. Kowal. After scoping out an ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge last month, Willie Fontenot, a community liaison officer for the Louisiana attorney general's office for 27 years, found himself faced with the option of forced retirement or getting the boot. A longtime environment ... |
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| Topics: energy, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Muckraker, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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Texaco to Ecuador: Have You Tried a Swiffer?
Texaco haunted by dirty legacy in Ecuador |
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27 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Texaco to Ecuador: Have You Tried a Swiffer? Texaco haunted by dirty legacy in Ecuador At a ChevronTexaco shareholder meeting today in California, Amazonian community leaders, celebrities, and activists will confront company officials, focusing attention anew on Texaco's messy legacy in Ecuador. Twenty years of oil exploration in the nation left much of the western edge of the Amazon rainforest in ecological ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, business, Ecuador, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Moot Causes
Bush pushes refineries and nuke plants as solution to high energy prices |
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27 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Moot Causes Bush pushes refineries and nuke plants as solution to high energy prices Many analysts say high energy prices are the result of inefficient use of non-renewable resources. President Bush does not employ any of those analysts. In a speech today, he will propose to address the "root causes" of high energy prices by, um, increasing the inefficient use of non-renewable resources. His five proposals will likely end ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Higher Ed
An interview with actor and solar advocate Edward Norton |
Amanda Griscom Little |
27 Apr 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Edward Norton. Photo: WGBH. The world has known Edward Norton as a neo-Nazi skinhead, a lusty priest, a warbling romantic, Larry Flynt's attorney, and Nelson Rockefeller. There is also a far less publicized role that Norton plays every day: a dyed-in-the-wool eco-devotee on the front lines of the renewable-energy movement. In 2003, Norton teamed up with oil giant and leading solar-panel pro ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, energy, green living, interview, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Iceland of Make-Believe
Little-known facts from a country on the edge of your consciousness |
Katharine Wroth |
26 Apr 2005 |
Counter Culture |
| 39,756 -- area of Iceland, in square miles1 39,728 -- area of Kentucky, in square miles2 293,966 -- population of Iceland3 4,117,827 -- population of Kentucky2 10 -- percentage of Icelanders who believe elves "definitely" exist4 0 -- number of successful elf surveys conducted in Kentucky 11.5 -- percentage of Iceland that is covered by glaciers1 3,240 -- square mil ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, Greenpeace, Iceland, Kentucky, oceans (all these topics) |
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Everything Coal Is New Again
Congress seeks tax money to make defunct 'clean coal' plant dirty again |
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25 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Everything Coal Is New Again Congress seeks tax money to make defunct "clean coal" plant dirty again For aficionados of government pork, the energy bill that recently passed the House is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest gem uncovered is a provision that would offer $125 million in loan guarantees to a "clean coal" power plant in Alaska. Now, this pork isn't going to build the plant -- tha ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, coal, energy, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Souuuueeeee!
House passes pork-laden energy bill |
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22 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Souuuueeeee! House passes pork-laden energy bill The House of Representatives approved broad energy legislation yesterday by a vote of 249 to 183. The 1,000-plus-page bill contains some $12 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for energy companies, less than 5 percent of which go to clean energy or energy conservation. It contains a provision that would funnel $2 billion to deep-water oil and gas drilling in the Gu ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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You've Come a Long Way, Maybe
Stats on how far we've come (or haven't) since the first Earth Day |
Todd Hymas |
22 Apr 2005 |
Counter Culture |
| Photo: NASA. 3.7 billion -- world population in 19701 6.4 billion -- world population in 20051 1,535 billion -- kilowatt-hours of electricity used in the U.S. in 19702 3,837 billion -- kilowatt-hours of electricity expected to be used in the U.S. in 20053 6.0 -- percentage of electricity in U.S. consumed in 1970 produced from renewable sources4 6.7 -- percentage of electrici ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, GMOs, oil, placemaking, population, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics) |
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Is That a Fat Lady We Hear Singing?
The era of cheap oil is coming to an end soon; duck! |
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21 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Is That a Fat Lady We Hear Singing? The era of cheap oil is coming to an end soon; duck! Cheap oil is running out. A report from the U.S. Energy Department's Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves puts the problem in stark terms: "The disparity between increasing production and declining discoveries can only have one outcome: a practical supply limit will be reached and future supply to meet conventional oil ... |
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| Topics: energy, green living, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Mine Sweeper
Former journalist Stephanie Roth is battling against a gold mine in Romania |
Michelle Nijhuis |
21 Apr 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Stephanie Danielle Roth. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Apuseni Mountains of west-central Romania are rich in gold, iron, and history. The area's gold once supplied the Roman Empire, and it is home to Rosia Montana, the country's oldest documented mining settlement. But this past is threatened by the present: five years ago, the Romanian government granted rights to a ... |
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| Topics: energy, European Union, mining (all these topics) |
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Dearth Day
Earth Day goings-on don't measure up to dark drama on Capitol Hill |
Amanda Griscom Little |
21 Apr 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Today, on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the first Earth Day, the House of Representatives is voting on, and widely expected to pass, a grossly porkified energy bill that would dole out billions in subsidies to fossil-fuel industries, shortchange alternative-energy and efficiency initiatives, and indemnify makers of the gasoline additive MTBE against liability for groundwater co ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, League of Conservation Voters, Muckraker, NRDC, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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The energy bill
It's a bloated, industry-friend piece of crony capitalism. And its breath stinks. |
David Roberts |
20 Apr 2005 |
Gristmill |
| The House starts work on the monstrosity that is the Energy Bill today, and could vote on it as early as tomorrow. It contains this hideous provision, a naked givaway to big industry that would "bypass Congress's normal spending process to funnel up to $2 billion over 10 years into research for recovering oil and gas from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico." And that's just the beginning. It's difficult to describe just how reprehensible this bil ... |
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| Topics: energy, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Iran using oil, natural gas resources to find fast friends |
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20 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People Iran using oil, natural gas resources to find fast friends Much in the way the kid with the backyard swimming pool and the trampoline always manages to rustle up friends, Iran is turning to its oil and gas reserves to leverage alliances with influential Eastern nations -- and rather urgently, as it faces the threat of sanctions from the U.S. and Europe over its nuclear program. ... |
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| Topics: energy, Iran, natural gas, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Rock the Bloat
Some conservatives getting uncomfortable with energy-bill pork |
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20 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Rock the Bloat Some conservatives getting uncomfortable with energy-bill pork A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, being a conservative meant favoring free markets and smaller, less intrusive federal government. A shrinking number of conservatives still cling to the old ways, and they are disturbed by the energy bill making its way through the House. Though Republican leaders promised to trim the bill down from the ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, politics (all these topics) |
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