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What is “cost” for renewable energy standards?

December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on What is “cost” for renewable energy standards?

 The Bloomberg article on industry lobbying against renewable power standards  contains, in addition to details related to Carbon on the City, an interesting item. force them to boost electricity generated by wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy to 15 percent of the U.S. total by 2020. That’s up from less than 2 percent today, and […]

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Tags: Energy · environmental · Global Warming · politics · renewable electricity standards · renewable energy

Rudy’s “Carbon on the City”

December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on Rudy’s “Carbon on the City”

Well, unless you are a Washington Post reader with its blackout of coverage of Rudy’s sex scandal, Sex on the City truly provides a revealing window on a top Republican Presidential contender.  Well, perhaps we should be wondering whether the new scandal that all (except, again, Washington Post readers) should be discussing might be called […]

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Tags: alternative energy · politics · renewable energy

Key Dynamics to consider Lieberman-Warner and D yes votes from Senate EPW

December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on Key Dynamics to consider Lieberman-Warner and D yes votes from Senate EPW

On a 12-8 vote, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee passed out the Lieberman-Warner “American Climate Security Act”. Such stalwarts of environmental issues as Senators Barbara Boxer and Bernie Sanders voted for sending this bill out of committee and praised it (even strongly).   Yet, there are those, including this author, who have serious issues […]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · Global Warming · lieberman-warner

Energy NOT COOL: Oy vey iz mir! MIT Focused on BAU, not BTB

December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on Energy NOT COOL: Oy vey iz mir! MIT Focused on BAU, not BTB

Amid all of the fascinating things out there on energy issues, there are many that will increase energy illiteracy, that don’t merit the kilobytes wasted on them, that are, well, truly Energy NOT COOL.  Tonight inaugurates a new series that will, occasionally, draw attention to one of these contributions to hindering meaningful debate on energy […]

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