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Based in Berkeley, California, Chris Morrison is a freelance business reporter who focuses on renewable energy and cutting-edge tech. Until recently, he was a staff member at VentureBeat, a news site about innovation and venture capital, where he headed up coverage of clean technology. Chris continues to contribute to VentureBeat...- more about Chris Morrison »
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- Geoengineering: From Crackpot Theorizing to Excuse Du Jour
- Governments across the world have promised to reduce their emissions -- yet failed to actually do so. Majorities of their populations are opposed to spending much time or money combating climate change. Is it time to muster up more political will? Not if there's any alternative. And that alternative's name,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Climate Change Support Builds, but Will it Be Enough?
- There are plenty of people who are apathetic, or outright hostile, to the idea of climate change. But the perception that business is aligned against it is shifting, helped in part by petitions like the one just signed by a group of investors collectively representing $14 trillion dollars. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Week in Renewables: Obama vs. Public Opinion, and New Energy Bets
- To commercialize renewable energy technologies, must we first believe in climate change? The question deserves closer examination after this week's Presidential address and the concurrent release of a major study. "The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized,"...
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- Lobbyists Accused of Blocking Climate Change Efforts
- Heavily-funded lobbyists are significantly influencing the climate change debate, according to the Center for Public Integrity, but not exactly the way you might expect. by Chris Morrison
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Week in Renewables: Slow Motion Legislation, Solar Acquisitions
- Any hopes renewable energy companies had that new climate change legislation would be quickly passed were dashed this week, with negotiators deciding to hold off until next year. by Chris Morrison
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Week in Renewables: Changes Afoot, Solar Growth, Electric Cars and Nukes
- This week's news was dominated by the International Energy Agency's latest report and bickering over the Copenhagen climate change summit, but there were plenty of smaller news items too. by Chris Morrison
- Blog posts 2009-11-15
- The Great Climate Change Scandal of 2009
- Hackers have publicly revealed almost a decade's worth of email correspondence from a leading climate change research center, prompting an outcry over some scientist's comments. But the controversy is so far overblown. by Chris Morrison
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
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- Energy Roundup: FutureGen Has a Future, Silver Springs Snags Cisco Exec, Tesla Co-Founder Sues, and More
- U.S. restarts FutureGen clean coal project -- The Department of Energy breathed new life into FutureGen, a coal-fired plant project that aims to capture 60 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground. The DOE will provide $1 billion in economic stimulus funds towards the controversial project derailed by the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Week in Oil & Gas: Peak Oil, a Climate-Bill Interlude and Devon's Big Sale
- Climate-change legislation took a backseat to the congressional debate over a health care bill last week. Meaning, chances of passing legisation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system this year have disappeared. But is it all that bad? Or unexpected?  Senate Democratic leaders said last week wrangling...
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Google, UN Map Greenhouse Gases Ahead of Climate Talks
- The folks over at Google and the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat have created a greenhouse gas map that gives all those facts and figures swirling around the climate change debate a little visual context. Here's how the map works. Users can get an overall global view showing changes in...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Week in Oil & Gas: Punting in Copenhagen and Gulf of Mexico Leases -- Abridged
- The odds Congress would be able to pass climate-change legislation this year dimmed by the minute last week, as the political wrangling moved to the Senate Finance Committee and the debate focused once again on jobs and the economy. The bill's molasses-like progress through the Senate has rippled through the...
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- India Ponders Changing its Climate Rhetoric
- There have only been a handful of blocks to a new international climate agreement. One is that the United States has been slow to pass climate legislation; another is that China and India, the two largest of the world's developing economies, argue that they should not have to limit their...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Will Engineering Giants Be the Next to Embrace Climate Concerns?
- The winds of change are blowing, and they're affecting more than just wind turbines. My colleague Kirsten Korosec has been covering the defection of companies from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its anti-global warming stance, which started with utilities like Exelon, PNM and PG&E and recently grew to include...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Cap-and-Trade and Carbon Taxes: Equal Opportunity Boondoggles for Governments
- Economists have long argued over whether cap-and-trade, in which emissions permits are traded, or a carbon tax would be better. The answer, once politicians start working, may be neither. The dominant cap-and-trade proposal in the United States have drawn ire for its lack of focus and attempts...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Republicans Successfully Create Climate Legislation Catch-22
- The Republican Party, as amply noted elsewhere, has been having a tough time uniting against President Obama's policies. The arguments they make are often as not feeble or marred by internal arguing. But GOP efforts are starting to show on one part of the Obama's platform, his energy policies. A...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- The Climate Bill's Death of a Thousand Cuts
- A working version of the American climate bill will likely be finalized this month, according to The New Republic, the first step on its painful road to a vote in the full Senate. As the legislation is already large on everyone's mind, there's a good deal of pre-game analysis and...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Energy Roundup: Republicans Push Nuclear, Coal Lifting Emissions, Iraqi Oil and More
- Republicans to unveil competing energy bill -- House Republicans have brewed up an energy plan to compete with Democratic offerings that center around renewable energy. Nuclear power is the centerpiece; the party envisions 100 new nukes over the next 20 years. Increased oil and gas drilling is also a component....
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Should Shell Be Excluded From Environmental Discussions?
- High-level international talks are increasingly about curbing the effects of climate change. Governments of all stripes should certainly be involved, no matter what their status as polluters is. But who else should be present? What about the oil, gas and coal businesses whose success rests on years of pouring greenhouse...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Penalties for All, as the United Kingdom Battles Over Energy
- The United States has had its share of strong voices urging action -- or inaction -- on climate change. But it's across the pond that things are really heating up. In the United Kingdom, it looks like the two sides might soon be holding pitched battles. Most...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- When the Environment Becomes a Trade Issue
- Is China is attempting to "steal" technology from the United States, or is it just asking for what it deserves? Politicians are clashing over whether developing countries should get free access to renewable energy and efficiency technology, or whether standard intellectual property laws should stand. For several...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
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