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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Our legislative director, Karen Wayland, has the following to report on the House's efforts to rap things up before leaving for the August recess. Still no action on the House energy bill. The House got bogged down in a huge...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Inside EPA (subscription required) reported that Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) renewed his efforts to allow EPA to take longer than 180 days to consider requests for waivers from fuel related provisions of the Clean Air Act. This is intended to allow EPA to take its...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Put this in the category of cutting off your nose to spite your face: Yesterday, Ohio EPA proposed allowing ethanol plants to pollute more not because it's good for the environment but explicitly because it's good for business. With this...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
These two stories, one brief in the NY Times and the other in the Washington Post, paint an alarming picture of what will happen if we rush ahead with a renewable fuel standard without a significant expansion and reform of the conservation...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
On Friday, Treehugger posted the results of a recent Carnegie Mellon study comparing the lifecycle global warming pollution emissions of liquid coal fuel and a plug-in hybrid car running on regular gasoline. Because all the carbon in liquid coal fuel...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I'm posting four fact sheets here that NRDC and an informal coalition of environmental groups have started circulating in the US House of Representatives on how to do a renewable fuel standard in an environmentally responsible way. In addition to...
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