Since launching The Pickens Plan in 2008, T Boone Pickens has become a face for American households about the potential for changing America’s energy structure. In short, T Boone advocates for a program that would reduce America’s dependence on overseas oil by: Constructing a major wind electricity generation and transmission capability Use that wind to […]
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Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) Cozying up With T Boone Pickens
July 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments
“Will the Senate save the Clean Air Act?”
July 8th, 2009 · Comments Off on “Will the Senate save the Clean Air Act?”
That is the question that many Americans will see opening their newspapers tomorrow as a nationwide advertising effort begins to let Americans know that the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) has a provision restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce the Clean Air Act (CAA). The CAA is perhaps the premier legislative achievement […]
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Energy COOL: Ford Putting Feedback Systems into Practice
July 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Putting fuel efficiency feedback systems on the dashboard of every American automobile (both existing and new) could well be one of the most cost effective tools for quick reduction in America’s oil dependency and, as well, to improve traffic safety (and reduce) fatalities. These feedback systems can be as ‘simple’ as solely providing real-time miles […]
Tags: automobiles · Energy · energy cool · energy efficiency · energy smart · fuel economy · gasoline · politics
Acting on Climate = Benefits, not costs
June 30th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Amid many frustrations re the American Climate Energy & Security (ACES) Act (climate legislation), it is like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard when people say “it will only cost X” (“just a postage stamp a day”). There is celebratory discussion of CBO and EPA numbers showing very low costs, seemingly useful to counter R […]
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ACES Freeze?
June 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on ACES Freeze?
Could a little freeze action help cool our planetary warming?
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Not even a rubber mallet? Do “Climate Change Leaders” know how to play hardball?
June 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments
When contemplating the path of climate legislation over the past several years, we must address a continual question and challenge for those (which should be all of us) concerned that our political system is proving unable to come up with a policy and regulatory framework that provides any real hope for putting us (the United […]
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Why do so many in Congress hate American manufacturing?
June 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Why do so many in Congress hate American manufacturing?
Truly, this is one of the questions that should be on the table when considering Congressional (in)action re climate change and clean energy options. Over the past decade, as US jobs flew out to other countries, with workers all too often spending their last months/weeks/days on the job training foreigners how to use equipment and […]
Tags: Congress · government energy policy · politics · renewable electricity standards · renewable energy
16 Times Louder
May 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
This evening, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act out for consideration by the rest of the House. This bill is filled with good … and bad elements. It has strong provisions for improving energy efficiency in the United States, a weak renewable energy standard, and […]
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A Coal Subsidy Act?
May 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments
The House Energy and Commerce Committee looks poised to vote on the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act later today. As this bill has developed, from an already compromised draft bill through massive compromising to reach a bill submission to committee markups, it has reached the point as to whether it is more […]
Time for the Bully Pupit
May 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Mr. President: The time has come. You have spoken, eloquently and frequently and powerfully, about clean energy, energy efficiency, about climate change. You have stated the necessity and opportunity before us, as individuals and nation and global community, with addressing Climate Change. In the House of Representatives, two Committee chairs, Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed […]
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