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 , U.S. Law and Policy
The big news out of the US House of Representatives last night is that the Democrats including most importantly Speaker Pelosi and Rep Dingell on a comprehensive energy bill that includes a historic increase in vehicle fuel economy, an all...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
No sooner had I hit publish on my post Wednesday night about the UN right to food guy calling the use of any arable land for biofuels a "crime against humanity," than two dueling polls poped into my inbox. One was...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
As I said I would in my last post, I testified yesterday before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming as part of a hearing on biofuels. And Adam Garnder of Guster was sitting there on the witness panel with me....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
The Wall Street Journal has an article today about the ethanol industry's waning clout on Capitol Hill (subscription required). The article points the finger at high food prices and the meat and grocers associations. Food prices are obviously an important issue,...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→
