Electrification of rail is one of the most effective currently available technology paths for reducing carbon emissions. It should be on the top of the policy agenda. It is, basically, nowhere to be found. Here is a guest post by the very thoughtful BruceMcF, looking at this gap and providing a path forward for addressing […]
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Supporting Rail Electrification with the Climate Bill
October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off on Supporting Rail Electrification with the Climate Bill
Tags: climate legislation · Energize America · Energy · environmental · financial policy · government energy policy · rail · trains · transportation
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Kerry (D-MA): “Yes, We Can”
October 11th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, and Senator John Kerry, Democrat from Massachusetts, have joined forces in what might be one of the most important single opinion pieces published in a newspaper so far in 2009. Published in The New York Times, Yes, We Can (Pass Climate Legislation), provides an indication of a ‘bipartisan’ […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · climate change · climate legislation · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy
Anti-Science Syndrome suffering Republican Party of Virginia
October 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments
The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) (or, perhaps, simply staff) has embraced anti-science syndrome with a fervor that should astound anyone with the slightest regard for the scientific method and for the scientific community (communities). . Here is an excerpt from an RPV-email attacking Democratic Party candidate for Attorney General Steve Shannon: In Shannon’s only […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · climate change · climate legislation · Energy · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · republican party
A FIT for the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act
October 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on A FIT for the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act
This is a guest post from NB41, who is top-notch in the wind energy world and on how to integrate renewable power into the energy system. Senator Kerry and Boxer introduced, yesterday, the Clean Energy, Jobs, and American Power Act. This bill is an alternative to/similar to the so-called ACES bill (Waxman-Markey Bill) which recently […]
Tags: cap and trade · carbon tax · climate change · climate legislation
A cap with a collar …
September 29th, 2009 · Comments Off on A cap with a collar …
Well designed, a cap with a collar can be a truly gorgeous thing. To spark movement away from our carbon addiction, for business (financial) planning, and to gain enough support to pass climate legislation, any “Cap and Trade” structure almost certainly will have to have a “collar” to go with its “cap” on carbon emissions. […]
Tags: business practice · cap and trade · carbon dioxide · climate legislation
ACCCE Leader Pleas for Carbon Price
September 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Yesterday, during a panel on Assuring Access to Clean and Competitive Energy in the Council on Competitiveness‘ National Energy Summit, Arch Coal President and ACCCE Vice President Steven Leer made a strong appeal for government policy to put a price on carbon. I think a price on carbon is necessary.
Tags: business practice · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate legislation · Energy · environmental
Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon
September 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon
When considering those fighting against a clean energy future, you have to wonder whether they are Neanderthal or have advanced to the stage meriting description as Cro-Magnon. Meet Your Own Caveman, which might include Rep Frank Wolf (R-VA-11) or Rep John Shimkus (R-IL) or …
Tags: climate delayers · climate legislation · Congress
Climate Change Legislation: Think Seven Generations, not seven years
September 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
We live in a “time of consequences.” We, as individuals and collectively, are setting the path which will determine the living conditions for millenia to come. This time of consequences is both long term and quite immediate. This is true for the individual. Do you invest in an energy efficient future life? Will you unplug […]
Tags: climate change · climate legislation · Global Warming · government energy policy
Is China “the” problem?
August 30th, 2009 · Comments Off on Is China “the” problem?
This is a guest post from Kate Horner, international climate and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth, taking a look at the oft-used line “China pollutes more than the U.S.” and “if we act, it will give China an advantage” and … Well, go ahead and read it … International negotiators are in Germany […]
Tags: China · climate change · climate legislation · Energy · Global Warming
Making ASSes of U and ME: SAIC/NAM/ACCF GIGO strikes again …
August 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Last year, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and that American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) made noise with a report written by SAIC showing that the Lieberman-Warner Coal Subsidy Act (misrepresented as the Climate Security Act) would have devastating impact. Now, NAM and ACCF have long fought against any moves to clean energy and any […]
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