Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
A new report from the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) reveals that our energy bills are $120bln higher than they appear due to the "hidden costs" associated with the air pollution created by burning fossil fuels. The...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
One of the key findings from a new NRDC climate policy study is that policies to support CO2 capture and sequestration at power plants and industrial facilities could also help recover almost 37 billion barrels of stranded domestic oil by 2050. This increase...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
The coal lobby can't catch a break these days. First utilities reduce coal demand in favor of increasing purchases of cheap natural gas, then the EPA proposes its endangerment finding on carbon dioxide pollution, then mountaintop removal gets called into account...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The ever quotable climate change skeptic Rep. Joe Barton has dismissed cap and trade legislation as "dead" before arrival and has instead decided to launch his own version of climate change legislation. The Barton plan, with an additional 200+ amendments waiting...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
While President Obama and others speak out about the need to close the carbon loopholes in this country, one newly appointed Governor has taken it upon himself to buck the trend and open up a new one. A carbon loophole...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Despite the fact that the number of rigs exploring for natural gas in the US has dropped by over 40% in the past six months, the supply of natural gas in the market remains stubbornly high. In fact, weak industrial...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Old Dominion Electric Power Corporation's plan to build a 1,500MW supercritical pulverized coal-fired power facility in Dendron, Virginia comes with significant economic risk that can raise the "expected" cost of this facility by tens of billions of dollars over time. Costs...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
While the coal industry has been very receptive to meeting the needs of a large coal-to-liquids (CTL) industry in the United States, it seems unclear how they would actually service these new customers with domestic coal supplies at reasonable prices....continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
Sunflower Electric Power Corporation's plan to take possession of 200MW of the 1400MW Holcomb supercritical coal-fired power facility in southwest Kansas comes with significant economic risk that will ultimately be borne by their rate-payers. These risks include higher construction, credit, and...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
On January 15th the US Climate Action Partnership, a group of 26 major industry players and 5NGOs (including NRDC), released its Blueprint for Legislative Action on climate change -- a document designed to provide Congress with a consensus approach to...continued→
