Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Just a few hours ago, President Bush signed into law an energy bill that requires more efficient cars and trucks, more and better renewable fuels, more efficient light bulbs, and more efficient appliances. As everyone is quick to acknowledge, the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Yesterday the Senate passed a historic energy bill that makes a much needed down payment on the global warming pollution reductions the United States needs to make to help avoid catastrophic climate change. (Here's NRDC's press release.) The bill is...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The great news of the day is that the House passed it's comprehensive energy bill. Here's NRDC's official press release. As noted in our release, the renewable fuel standard in the bill is a big change in our approach to...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I spent yesterday and today at the Future Fuels conference in DC, where I'll be giving this presentation (2.5MB file) shortly. There are some other interesting presentations here, that I believe will be on the conference web site soon. I'll...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I haven't posted as much recently, but not for lack of interesting news items. Here are three bits from the last day or so: First, Darren Goode reports for Congress Daily (subscription required) that Rep. Dingell thinks that a CAFE...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, Sen. Bingaman, chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said that he thought the energy bill debate would continue on into December. On the one hand, this suggests that momentum for a comprehensive bill is flagging; on the other hand,...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I'm going to testify in front of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming next Wednesday as part of a hearing on biofuels. The timing couldn't be better. As I've written about before (here), the House and...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Partly inspired by the chance to use "ping-pong" and "pop" in a title, and partly because I've already speculated cleantech investing as a whole could suffer if ethanol's fortunes fall too far too fast, I've been thinking about investment bubbles today. A...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
This morning the National Academy of Science released a report on the water-use and water-pollution implications of biofuels. A press statement from Jonathan Kaplan, NRDC's Sustainable Agriculture Project Director, will be is available on our web site shortly. The Institute...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
One result of writing this blog is that I've learned about a number of blogs out there that, day after day, offer some great commentary on developments in my field. I want to share what I've found. My blogger colleagues...continued→
