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SUV-Loving Public Deems Itself Unpatriotic Americans think fuel efficiency is patriotic, poll finds		18 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
SUV-Loving Public Deems Itself Unpatriotic Americans think fuel efficiency is patriotic, poll finds According to a new poll released yesterday, fuel efficiency ranks up there with apple pie, baseball, and hating liberals as emblematic of American patriotism. Some 66 percent of Americans believe it's "patriotic" to purchase a fuel-efficient vehicle, as it would aid the U.S. in kicking its addiction ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Rikipedia Author and oil-spill expert Riki Ott answers readers' questions		18 Mar 2005	InterActivist
Riki Ott, author of Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$. We know that using oil is wasting our planet, ruining the atmosphere and oceans, and poisoning our water and children, but we still find using it a reasonable thing to do. Who is really at fault, Exxon or us? Are we destined to pollute earth to a point that destroys us all? -- Bruce Wright, Executive Director, Conservation Science Institute, Wasilla, Alask ...
Topics: Alaska, business, energy, InterActivist, interview, oil, politics (all these topics)

Caribou-Hoo-Hoo Senate votes to open Arctic Refuge to drilling	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Mar 2005	Muckraker
Stickin' it to the porcupine caribou in the Arctic Refuge. Photo: Ken Whitten, Wilderness Society. Oil companies are closing in on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In a crushing blow to those who have fought for some 25 years to preserve the unspoiled Alaskan wildland, the Senate voted today to clear the way for oil and gas drilling within the Arctic Refuge. By a 51-49 vote, they rejected a ...
Topics: Arctic, Arctic Refuge, energy, Muckraker, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Riki-Tikki-Savvy Author and oil-spill expert Riki Ott answers Grist's questions		14 Mar 2005	InterActivist
Riki Ott. What work do you do? What's your job title? For the past seven years -- 1998 to 2004 -- I researched and wrote a book, Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Now I'm an author/activist/scientist on book tour. Titles: Well, I have been bestowed numerous titles by others. For example, "pain in the ass" by Alyeska, the consortium that operates and (sup ...
Topics: Alaska, business, energy, InterActivist, interview, oil, politics (all these topics)

Green Tag, You're It On Green Tags	Umbra Fisk	07 Mar 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My power company (Florida Power and Light) sent me a letter asking me to choose its Sunshine Energy program, which, for an additional $9.75 a month, helps support the building of a 150-kilowatt solar facility in Florida. Do you think I should do it? Linda Coral Springs, Fla. Dearest Linda, Yes. And I am herewith going to foist my plans for 2005 upon all the rest of you: They involve deemphasizing insignificant widgets and ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, Florida, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Hawks speak out for U.S.-grown clean energy	Aimee Christensen	06 Mar 2005	Gristmill
'It's not a hardship to drive it. It's fun.' -- George Shultz, former Secretary of State, referring to his Toyota Prius, a hybrid car that uses much less gasoline than a conventional vehicle, at the second annual summit of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, February 11. I found this nugget in my inbox, tucked into the recent issue of @stanford, 'a monthly newsletter of campus news and research,' in the 'Heard on Campus' segment (I am an alum of ...
Topics: energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Kids Absorb the Darndest Things Lower IQs in mercury-exposed children cost U.S. billions, study says		01 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Kids Absorb the Darndest Things Lower IQs in mercury-exposed children cost U.S. billions, study says The effects of mercury on fetal development are costing the U.S. economy $8.7 billion a year, says a new study. Some 317,000 to 637,000 children born in the U.S. each year have been exposed to unsafe mercury levels in the womb, and many of them sustain diminished IQs, researchers reported in a National Institutes of Health jour ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics)

He Wasn't Kidding About Being Back Schwarzenegger returns with new, revamped solar initiative		01 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
He Wasn't Kidding About Being Back Schwarzenegger returns with new, revamped solar initiative Yesterday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) joined state senators from both parties to introduce a new version of his solar plan. What David Hochschild of Vote Solar called "the most ambitious solar initiative ever proposed in the United States" wou ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, legislation, news, politics, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Dam Hydropower a major greenhouse-gas producer, researchers say		25 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Dam Hydropower a major greenhouse-gas producer, researchers say Although hydroelectric power is often heralded as a green alternative to fossil fuels like coal, scientists now say that in terms of greenhouse-gas production, hydro projects may be just as damning. Ahem. New research reveals that the initial flooding involved in creating hydroelectric dams releases large amounts of carbon from plants that are kille ...
Topics: climate, dams, energy, hydropower, news (all these topics)

Because it's there	David Roberts	24 Feb 2005	Gristmill
It's difficult to work up outrage these days, I know. But still. Republicans have long had a hard on for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It's never made any sense -- the amount of oil we could get is a tiny fraction of what we need, and it's 10 years out in the future. It will do nothing to reduce energy prices or dependence on foreign oil. Now it turns out that even the oil companies themselves don't think it's worth it. A Bush ...
Topics: Arctic, Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air		24 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air A market-based program used by five Western states to control haze in national parks and wilderness areas was rejected by a federal appeals court Friday. Brought to court in a challenge by a coal and utilities industry group, the states' efforts to cut sulfur-dioxide pollution and improve air quality and visibility in the parks w ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Heavy Metal Madness Pombo eggs on mercury debate with controversial report	Amanda Griscom Little	24 Feb 2005	Muckraker
Pombo says: Eat up! House Resources Committee Chair Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) -- longtime bete noire of the environmental community -- cooked up what appears to be some fishy science in a report released last week titled "Mercury in Perspective: Fact and Fiction About the Debate Over Mercury" [PDF]. The report -- written not by scientists but rather by aides to Pombo and a ...
Topics: coal, energy, fishing, mercury, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, National Wildlife Federation, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Ain't it funny how time slips away	Katharine Wroth	15 Feb 2005	Gristmill
We are late on this one -- later than J Lo's apology for sucking, later than the U.S. signing on to Kyoto -- but just in case you missed it: Willie Nelson is getting into the biodiesel business! The iconic singer and three partners have formed 'Willie Nelson's Biodiesel,' and they're marketing 'BioWillie' (a name that somehow conjures former President Clinton, but never mind) to truck stops across the country. Lots of bloggers have gushed about this already. But he ...
Topics: biofuels, celebrity, energy (all these topics)

On the Right Track New Republican leaders emerging in battle against climate change	Amanda Griscom Little	04 Feb 2005	Muckraker
Last week, an international task force co-chaired by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) predicted a fast-approaching "point of no return" for climate change -- possibly in as few as 10 years -- after which the crisis and its symptoms will be irreversible. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). You probably didn't read about it in the U.S. papers, which largely ignored the ...
Topics: climate, energy, Muckraker, NRDC, politics (all these topics)

Smokestack Lightening ConocoPhillips will pay half a billion to clean up refineries		28 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Smokestack Lightening ConocoPhillips will pay half a billion to clean up refineries The largest refinery settlement in U.S. history was announced yesterday, as ConocoPhillips, the nation's largest oil refiner, agreed to spend more than $525 million to clean up nine refineries, a deal that will remove 47,000 tons of harmful pollutants from the air each year. This is the 13th such settlement since 1998. ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, oil, United States (all these topics)

The answer, my friend, is basking in the sun	David Roberts	24 Jan 2005	Gristmill
Joel Makower does a quick review of the growing momentum of solar power on the world market, with high-profile moves being made by Sanyo, Sharp, Kyocera, and Mitsubishi. Then he turns to the U.S. solar market, which is lagging:Reclaiming leadership in the global solar marketplace will be no mean feat. As recently as 1997, U.S. solar companies controlled 100% of the U.S. market and 40% of the global market, according to SEIA. Today, U.S. firms control only 73% and 14%, ...
Topics: business, energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling		24 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling The Bush administration plans to open to drilling more than 400,000 acres of Alaska's North Slope thought to be vital to migratory birds and caribou, after the Bureau of Land Management determined that drilling can be done with "minimum impact" on wildlife. Interior Secretary Gale Nort ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

The Terminal Enviros gear up for international battle over Siberian oil pipeline		21 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Terminal Enviros gear up for international battle over Siberian oil pipeline Russia's 2,565-mile, $15.5 billion trans-Siberian oil pipeline -- currently under construction -- is at the center of a major emerging international environmental brouhaha. At issue is the Pacific terminal site. Recently, the terminus was abruptly moved from Vostochny, Russia's main Pacific industrial port, to Perevoznaya, a pristine bay an ...
Topics: energy, marine life, oil, Russia (all these topics)

China	David Roberts	20 Jan 2005	Gristmill
Here's a worthwhile David R. Francis editorial about China's growing demand for oil. It's another reminder that environmentalists who really care about the fate of the earth -- the entire earth, not just their favorite camping spot out West -- can do nothing more valuable than trying to make sure that China does not follow the same development path as the U.S. and Europe. This means lobbying the Chinese government not only to adopt aggressive conservation and renewable ...
Topics: China, energy, oil (all these topics)

Power Corrupts; Renewable Power Corrupts Renewably Guantanamo military base to be powered partly by wind		14 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Power Corrupts; Renewable Power Corrupts Renewably Guantanamo military base to be powered partly by wind We've got good news and bad news. Bad news first? OK: The U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is the alleged site of government-sanctioned torture, practiced on suspects whose guilt is at best uncertain, likely to leave a permanent moral scar on the nation's soul. The good news? It's using renewab ...
Topics: Cuba, energy, politics, US Navy, wind power (all these topics)

Embargoing, Going ... Discovery of Cuban oil deposits raises hopes for eased restrictions		11 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Embargoing, Going ... Discovery of Cuban oil deposits raises hopes for eased restrictions With the recent hardening of U.S. trade policy toward Cuba, analysts are now speculating that one thing could help ease the restrictions: Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. Two Canadian companies have discovered oil in Cuba's waters off the Gulf of Mexico, announced President Fidel Castro in a Dec. 25 speech to parli ...
Topics: Cuba, energy, oil, politics, United States (all these topics)

Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out ConocoPhillips withdraws from Arctic Refuge lobbying group		06 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out ConocoPhillips withdraws from Arctic Refuge lobbying group ConocoPhillips, the third-largest energy company in the U.S., has withdrawn from Arctic Power, a lobbying group the sole purpose of which is to convince Congress to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The company is playing down what it calls "merely a business decision," saying its intent is to ...
Topics: Alaska, business, energy, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

Consistency Blows Wind power set to explode in 2005; bats set to haunt Grist		05 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Consistency Blows Wind power set to explode in 2005; bats set to haunt Grist Several readers pointed out -- rather snarkily, we might add -- the seeming dissonance between Umbra's latest column praising wind farms and the news, reported the following day, that some such farms have been chopping up quite a few bats. But hey, like Walt Whitman said: We are large, we contain multitudes. And get ready for more m ...
Topics: energy, United States, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Batting a Thousand Bats dying in worrying numbers at Appalachian wind farms		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Batting a Thousand Bats dying in worrying numbers at Appalachian wind farms Unexpectedly high numbers of bat deaths at wind farms in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have caught scientists by surprise and made conservationists anxious. Whether the spinning turbines entice the bats or confuse their sonar navigation is unclear, but researchers say an estimated 1,500 to 4,000 bats may have perished i ...
Topics: energy, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

All We Are Is Farms in the Wind On wind farms	Umbra Fisk	03 Jan 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have been reading lots in the media lately about wind farms. As a supporter of green energy, I would obviously like to see a lot more of them and have long believed that people who oppose them are just another example of the "not in my backyard" mentality: they want a constant electricity supply, but not if it spoils the lovely sea view they paid so much for. Permission was given recently by the Briti ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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