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Climate Bill moves to Senate, but can biofuels be saved?

July 7, 2009

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
ACES, biofuels, capandtrade, landusechange, renewableenergy, RFS

The day I went on vacation (June 26th), the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) bill. It was an exciting way to kick off a break but came with the bitter-sweet knowledge that concessions wrung by Rep....continued

LCFS is a critical climate policy

April 6, 2009

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, capandtrade, landusechange, LCFS, lifecycle

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

RES and cap and trade - better together

February 11, 2009

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
CAP2.0, capandtrade, globalwarming, renewableenergy, renewableenergystandard

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

Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene
Director of Renewable Energy Policy
New York City
I coordinate NRDC's work on renewable energy--fuels and power--and policies that will advance them. For...
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