Republican presidential hopefuls attacked the Environmental Protection Agency during a social conservative event in Iowa over the weekend, and said the United States should allow for more production of energy domestically, have fewer regulations and end a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling.
Discovery News reports on new research published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy that finds wind speeds will decrease as a result of climate change, potentially threatening the world’s future reliance on wind power.
The paper, “Effects of Climate Change on Wind Energy Availability,” is written by More…
Here’s a quick recap of the midterm results from last night that have implications for energy/climate/environmental policy.
It was mostly bad news for House Democrats who voted for the chamber’s cap-and-trade bill. The two most stinging defeats were Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who worked furiously behind the scenes to More…
New data released today say the United States is falling far behind Europe and China in wind turbine installation — further evidence, wind advocates say, that Congress must enact policies to incentivize wind production.
The numbers, reported by the American Wind Energy Association, indicate that the third quarter of 2010 More…
Just days after the Obama administration announced that it is investigating China’s clean energy trade policies, The New York Times is reporting that the country has blocked shipments to the United States of rare earth minerals essential for the manufacturing of green technologies.
If this is true (the More…
In a last-ditch effort to build support in the Senate for a comprehensive climate bill this July, President Obama told the White House press corps that a failure to pass the legislation could help cement China’s position as the world clean energy industry leader.
[Environment1] “We can’t stand by as More…
Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have introduced an energy tax incentives bill that they are urging the Senate to pass before the end of the year. The bill includes tax incentives for homes and businesses that invest in energy efficiency, manufacturers of clean energy technology and developers More…
Here’s another excerpt from my interview with Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. Brune and I discussed wind energy and the need for new electric lines, or transmission, to carry the electricity produced by wind energy around the country.
The heads of the Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition — Govs. Chet Culver (D-Iowa) and Don Carcieri (R-R.I.) — today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) calling for passage this year of a “strong” renewable energy standard.
BP just started construction on a new wind farm in Colorado, according to Bloomberg, adding to the eight wind farms it already owns in the United States. The news has gotten little attention in the popular press.
The question going forward is this: Will BP ever be able to More…
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