Palin’s Clean Energy “Plan” for Alaska Takes Backseat to ANWR
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin released an energy plan for Alaska that looks a lot more like an abdication of state responsibilities’ than it does a document of executive leadership.
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Jackie Mason Lectures Young Green on Energy Policy and Oil Prices [video]
Mason’s take sounded a lot like the line of argument I heard from Sarah Palin about five months ago.
Feds Establish New Renewable Energy Coordination Office
In one of his last move Secretary of the Interior, outgoing Secretary Dirk Kempthorne issued a Secretarial Order authorizing the Bureau of Land Management to establish offices to expedite the permitting of renewable energy and associated transmission facilities on BLM lands.
Obama Hits the Ground Running: Businesses, Organizations, Activists Deliver Suggestions for Immediate Climate Change Action
In his first full day in office, President Barack Obama was delivered a letter from 97 businesses, organizations and activists outlining recommended first steps for coming to grips with climate change.
Enormous Environmental Challenges Face Obama
The 44th President faces enormous challenges implementing an environmentally-friendly agenda.
Obama Raises the Spectre of a Warming Planet – and the Sun, Wind, and Soil That Will Stop It
Though President Obama did not utter the word “environment” per se, he spoke both directly and indirectly about the major energy and environmental issues of today; more so than any of his predecessors.
Obama Could Be Just the Third President in History to Mention the Environment at an Inauguration
There will be many firsts at Tuesday’s Presidential Inauguration, but mentioning the environment in the inaugural address will not be one of them: though pretty darn close.
The Case for a Fifty-Cent Increase in the Federal Gasoline Tax
Now is the time for an increase in our national gas tax to fund improvements in our transportation infrastructure and save a dieing manufacturing base.
Massachusetts OKs 10% Wind Power Requirement
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced a plan to get ten percent of the state’s energy from wind energy by 2020.
Wind Power Front and Center at Obama Inauguration
Two small wind turbines, the type that would power individual homes, farms, or businesses are currently on display at the National Mall and contributing to the Washington, D.C. power grid.
Obama Stimulus Package May Include $25 Billion in Energy Tax Credits
Responding to concerns from Congressional democrats, Barack Obama has reportedly doubled, to $25 billion, his commitment to renewable energy tax credits and incentives proposed in his fiscal stimulus package.
Obama to Add 20 GW of Wind Power in 3 Years
An aide to Obama said the administration plans to facilitate 20 gigawatts (GW) or more of wind power and 4 GW of geothermal and solar power by 2012 through loan guarantees and fast tracked national renewable energy requirements. such as the Renewable Portfolio Standard.
The Week in Environmental Politics Ending 1/11/09
Oil exec calls for a carbon tax, bush protects marine areas and Obama wants to double renewables – and that’s not all of it!
Report: International Energy Agency Deliberately Undermined Growth Potential of Renewable Energy
The Energy Watch group has accused the International Energy Agency of misleading the governments around the world by publishing false data about renewable energy growth.
Time to Think More Deeply about UK Energy Security
The current Russia/Ukraine gas crisis is moving British gas companies to sell British gas supplies overseas, thereby keeping prices high and hitting UK consumers directly. Is is time for the UK to take political and economic control of their energy supply and run the industry for the public good and not for overseas profit?