Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, Representatives Waxman and Peterson announced that they have reached a deal that secures Peterson's support for the climate bill. Outlines of the deal are still coming out, but it clearly implements a five year delay in accounting for emissions...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
As I've written about over the last few weeks (here and here), our ability to require biofuels to actually be better than oil is under intense attack in the context of the climate bill and also under the budget appropriations...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Last week I wrote about the danger of industry-backed changes to the Waxman-Markey climate bill that could, perversely, incentivize deforestation and increase global warming emissions. Comparing the current bill language to the drastically weaker alternative advocated by Agriculture Committee Chairman...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
This is morbidly fascinating to watch. Deutsche Bank has launched a carbon counter. I'm sure there are others out there, but FWIW, they claim their's is the first scientifically valid one. Just in the time between when they took the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
As often as deforestation is decried as a driver of global climate change, it’s hard to believe that anyone would propose more deforestation as part of a climate bill. But that’s what is about to happen in the House of...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
At a "press availability" today EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson released the agency's proposed rule (EPA factsheet) to implement the new renewable fuel standard, which requires the first ever federal lifecycle greenhouse gas performance standard (EPA factsheet) for biofuels. Put more...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Thanks to the sharp eyes and quick reporting of Ben Geman at Greenwire (subscription required), we now know that OMB has finally released EPA's proposed RFS2 rule back to EPA. This means that once EPA addresses OMB's comments and the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Starting today, we're running a series of print and internet ads trying to sharpen the distinction between biofuels done right and biofuels done wrong. The animated web versions of the ads are running on the front page of Politico.com today....continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Today, NRDC is launching a new feature on our website (http://www.nrdc.org/renewables/) and I’d like to know what folks think of it. This new tool is designed to help regular people from farmers to politicians, financiers to reporters understand that renewables...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The pressure has been building on the Obama administration to release for public comment EPA's draft rule implementing the renewable fuel standard. EPA has had the draft ready since last October. Delay under the Bush administration was probably a good...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
On Friday, Kate Galbraith over at the NY Times wrote a blog post on a new study purporting to show that a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) "cannot be efficient." Unfortunately, the authors missed the critical context for an LCFS,...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Today a group of 10 environmental organizations sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging her to put a proposed rule establishing GHG standards for biofuels out for public comment. The rule, which are part of the Renewable Fuel...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
According to this AP story from yesterday, Interior Secretary Salazar said that the Cape Wind project "makes sense." That's good news, but Secretary Salazar still needs to issue the record of decision for the project and give it a lease....continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Watch it! It's funny. And it's about low-carbon transportation. Dan's a great guy and I love it when people and issues I care about are on the Daily Show. (Remember the Cape Wind piece?)...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on a federal renewable electric standard [webcast available here]. Predictably there was some moaning and misinformation that it would too expensive or hard, which Chairman Bingaman correctly labeled "a...continued→
