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Reps. for renewables New bill to support renewables offered in House	Kate Sheppard	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), and Mike Honda (D-Calif.) introduced legislation [PDF] yesterday to provide security for investments in the renewable-energy sector by guaranteeing rates for renewable-energy generation. The Renewable Energy Jobs and Security Act would provide guaranteed renewable-energy payments to small and mid-sized clean-energy suppliers (up to 20 megawatts). It would provide security for investment ...
Topics: Congress, economy, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Check Out Our Ray-Bans! Feds freeze new solar projects on public land, pending review		27 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 8:27 AM on 27 Jun 2008 The Bush administration has put a moratorium on new solar projects on public land pending large-scale study of their environmental impacts, a process which could take about two years. Since 2005, over 130 solar-plant proposals have been filed for large-scale solar projects that together would cover some 1 million acres of BLM land, if approved. Officials at the Interior Departm ...
Topics: energy, news, public lands, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, United States (all these topics)

How to strangle an industry, the concern troll way BLM contemplates two-year moratorium on solar power plant construction in the West	David Roberts	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Oh, now they care about careful environmental assessment? Oil and gas development is spreading over the American West like a cancer, but this, this solar stuff ... it's a bridge too far! So Congress and the feds are going to let the solar investment tax credit lapse and institute a moratorium on deployment in the best solar states -- two body blows to an nascent clean energy industry. That is some crackerjack energy policy. (Incidentally, it strikes me that this ...
Topics: Congress, economy, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Delawind? Delaware to have offshore wind farm in 2012	Joseph Romm	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- On Tuesday, the utility Delmarva announced a 25-year contract with Bluewater Wind Delaware, a subsidiary of the Babcock & Brown, to purchase 200 megawatts of power from a wind farm that would be constructed 11.5 miles in the Atlantic off Delaware's Rehoboth Beach. First power is expected in 2012. The contract locks in the price Delmarva will pay per kilowatt-hour. Bluewater has ...
Topics: wind power, renewable energy, energy, Delaware (all these topics)

Notable quotable Newt thinking on energy arousal (and domestic oil production)	Sara Barz	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'... when the American people are aroused, they can in fact coerce the Congress ...' -- Newt Gingrich on 'Energy Independence Day
Topics: energy, Newt Gingrich, oil, quotables, video (all these topics)

Humanity's meltdown Living on the ice shelf	Guest author	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Mike Davis, author of In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire and Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- Farewell to the Holocene Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary. This Feb ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate science, economy, energy, international politics (all these topics)

The gas legislation we pass House approves two measures to address energy prices, third fails	Kate Sheppard	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The House of Representatives took up a triumvirate of environment and energy-related bills today, passing two that would increase funding for mass transit and curb oil market speculation. A third, more controversial measure would have forced oil companies to drill on the land they already own. The votes highlighted the split between Democrats and Republicans on energy policy. Legislators have been battling for weeks over how to deal with record gasoline prices, wi ...
Topics: Ed Markey, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Renewable Vigor Britain lays out plans for renewable-energy 'revolution'		26 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 26 Jun 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown set out goals Thursday to increase renewable-energy use in Britain tenfold by 2020. Brown's vision for a "green revolution" is heavily reliant on wind power, with plans for 7,000 new turbines -- 4,000 onshore and 3,000 offshore. The North Sea could turn "into the equivalent for wind power of what the Gulf of Arabia is for the oil industry,& ...
Topics: energy, news, renewable energy, United Kingdom, wind power (all these topics)

Californication California plans to cut 169 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2020	Joseph Romm	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
How do you return greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 while promoting jobs, competitiveness, and public health? Conservatives in the U.S. Senate think it can't be done. California knows it can. The Air Resources Board has just published their 'Scoping Plan.' How do they cut 169 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2020? Efficiency, efficiency, renewables, renewables, and even some conservation: Given that the single biggest source of Califo ...
Topics: California, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

Landmark solar bill in Hawaii All new homes to sport solar hot water	Adam Browning	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Hawai'i is highly dependent on imported oil for its electricity needs -- I've heard Jeff Mikaluna, Director of the Hawai'i chapter of the Sierra Club, quip that the state is one supertanker accident away from becoming Amish. Which makes this press release great news:Every new home to have solar Landmark Solar Roofs law -- the first of its type in the nation -- escapes veto list Honolulu -- Hawai'i will become the first state in the nation to make solar water ...
Topics: energy, green building, Hawaii, legislation, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Must read CIBC report: $7 per gallon gas by 2010 Ten million cars off the road, 1970s style GDP growth	Joseph Romm	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
CIBC World Markets has just released a stunning yet detailed economic analysis of near-term oil prices and impacts. The PDF has some excellent figures I will convert to JPEGs. The two key pieces are 'Getting off the Road -- Adjusting to $7 per Gallon Gas in America' (PDF) and 'Oil and Growth -- That 70s show Re-Run' (PDF). Main points: 'That additional 200,000 barrels per day pledged from Saudi Arabia is a pittance compared to the four million barrels per day ...
Topics: cars, economy, energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Climate change ideas for On Day One Day four of the UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration rolls on today with a discussion prompt submitted by On Day One user teiki: A key to the massive use of fossil fuels in the U.S. is gross overconsumption. We use way more than necessary, through a combined dependence on the automobile and an infatuation with big, gas-hungry cars, trucks and SUVs., through wasted energy consumption in our homes and offices in everything from their construction to ...
Topics: green building, green living, energy efficiency, energy, climate (all these topics)

Mountain Madness New coal plant approved in Virginia, may fuel mountaintop-removal mining		26 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 11:53 AM on 26 Jun 2008 An embattled $1.8 billion coal plant slated for Wise County, Va., was granted pollution permits Wednesday by a state regulatory board, allowing construction to proceed. The company that will be building the 585-megawatt plant, Dominion Resources, promised local officials it would only source coal from within Virginia; that move is expected to fuel increased mountaintop-remo ...
Topics: business, climate, coal, energy, news, Virginia (all these topics)

Virginia is for coal lovers State illegally approves new coal-fired power plant	Glenn Hurowitz	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Update: The permit that was approved this week by the state Air Pollution Control Board does not contain the 'out clause' for mercury emissions. Information from an SELC statement was incorrect, and they have apologized. Under heavy pressure from lobbyists for Dominion Virginia Power, Virginia announced yesterday that it will permit the construction of a new coal-fired power plant, even though doing so clearly violates the law. Just days after NASA's James Hans ...
Topics: coal, energy, fossil fuels, grassroots activism, state politics, Virginia (all these topics)

Speculating about speculators Cornucopian thinking about oil	Jon Rynn	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
There seems to be a disturbing tendency in the progressive community to blame speculators for most, if not all, of the increase in oil prices. In its most extreme form, the implication seems to be that the supply of oil is virtually limitless, and that only financial manipulation is to blame. Ironically, this mirrors the views of many mainstream economists, who have what is sometimes called a cornucopian view of the world. Julian Simon was the ultimate spokesperson for t ...
Topics: economy, energy, fossil fuels, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Big Coal's new video	David Roberts	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A shill from everyone's favorite Big Coal front group ABEC wanders the streets of D.C. asking totally unbiased questions: Next up: Do random passers-by prefer ponies and puppy dogs, or will they side with the environmentalists' effort to kick the nation's little old ladies in the shins?
Topics: coal, energy, video (all these topics)

Waste line McCain on nuclear waste problem	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
With John McCain in Nevada today promoting, among other things, his love of nuclear power, Sierra Club is circulating this video of McCain talking about nuclear waste. McCain's a proponent of using Yucca Mountain to dispose of the waste, and a lot of Nevadans don't like that idea very much. In the video, though, he appears to say that despite his support of dumping in a neighboring state, he wouldn't feel comfortable with nuclear waste traveling through his home s ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

What the next president should say	Andrew Dessler	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here is what I would like the next president to tell the American people: The era of cheap energy is over. We will never again see cheap gas, and we can expect the price of electricity to rise inexorably. In order for the United States to survive, we need to rebuild our energy infrastructure. To reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, we need to implement a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system. This is a national security issue. We need a Manhattan-style go ...
Topics: carbon trading, energy, fossil fuels, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The pot-shot heard 'round the world McCain names his energy plan and bashes Barack Obama while he's at it	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain gave another energy speech today (bringing the grand total in the past week to four), this one in Las Vegas. It seems like the big new thing in this speech is that he's given a name to the various components of his energy plan that he's rolled out slowly over the past week: 'The Lexington Project.' 'In recent days I have set before the American people an energy plan, the Lexington Project -- named for the town where Americans asserted their independenc ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

For Your Energy Information Global energy demand will grow 50 percent by 2030, says EIA		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:07 PM on 25 Jun 2008 The world isn't going to kick its energy-sucking habits anytime soon, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicted Wednesday. By 2030, global energy demand will grow 50 percent, says the EIA report, mostly in China and other developing countries. Some 124 new nuclear plants will be built worldwide by 2030, and natural gas will be in demand to "replace oil whereve ...
Topics: coal, energy, natural gas, news, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Notable quotable Why indeed	David Roberts	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'We have been talking about energy independence since Americans were waiting in gas lines during the 1970s. We've heard promises about it in every State of the Union for the last three decades. But each and every year, we become more, not less, addicted to oil -- a 19th century fossil fuel that is dirty, dwindling, and dangerously expensive. Why?' -- Barack Obama
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, oil, quotables (all these topics)

Pathetic Justice Supreme Court slashes Exxon's punitive damages for Valdez oil spill		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:37 AM on 25 Jun 2008 ExxonMobil is off the hook for billions in punitive damages related to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. In 1994, the oil giant was ordered to pay $5 billion in punitive damages. In 2006, that amount was cut to $2.5 billion. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court slashed the amount once again, to $507.5 million. By a 5-3 vote (Exxon stockholder Samuel Alito sat out), the court reasoned ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, insanity, litigation, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

'It is now' Obama lays out an energy vision that's economics and security first	David Roberts	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I just read the energy speech Obama gave on Tuesday in Nevada. I'd call it a TKO if I didn't sound so unconvincing using boxing metaphors. Watch what he leads with: "A green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future, it is now."This is what the campaign, correctly in my judgment, has decided people need to hear first and foremost: It's happening. People just like you, who live around here, are getting jobs doing this stuff. The Ob ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'Bipartisan leadership for energy independence' Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith touts work with Obama in new campaign ad	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Republican Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon is touting his work with Barack Obama to improve automobile fuel efficiency and his 'bipartisan leadership for energy independence' in a new television ad. Smith, the sole GOP senator on the West Coast, is fighting to maintain his seat this year in what's expected to be a tightly contested race against Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley. Watch it: The Obama campaign issued a statement yesterday on their candidate's appear ...
Topics: energy, Oregon, fuel efficiency, politics, Barack Obama, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Great minds: Saudis prove EIA's point Offshore drilling has an 'insignificant' effect on oil prices	Joseph Romm	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I am glad that so many in the energy debate have picked up on one of the two messages from my previous post (see 'EIA to McCain: Drop offshore [drilling]'). But in listening to the radio and TV debates, I realize that some people have the impression that U.S. Energy Information Administration said offshore drilling might eventually lower oil prices. It did not. It found that allowing offshore drilling would have no significant effect on prices as far out into the fu ...
Topics: climate, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

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