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- Energy Roundup: Sahara Solar Plan, U.S-China Climate Talks, Nabucco Gas Pipe Accord Signed, and More
- Backers of Sahara solar power plant project sign initiative -- A dozen major companies including Siemens, German insurer Munich Re and utilities RWE and Eon signed a renewable energy initiative Monday aimed at developing electricity via solar power plants and wind farms in the Sahara desert. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Plight of the U.S. Refiner: Climate Bill, Stagnant Demand and Weak Margins
- The latest doomsday report about proposed climate change legislation centers on the plight of U.S. refiners, essentially predicting the ultimate downfall of the industry as costs become too high and production shifts overseas. U.S. refiners and their bottom lines have already been punished by a recession that has...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Rhetoric Roundup: Obama Calls For All Nations to Fight Climate Change, China's Hu Defines Responsibility
- President Obama's speech at the United Nations summit on climate change spent considerable time on the concept of responsibility. Namely, that all countries -- rich and poor, developed and emerging -- are responsible and must share the burden of climate change. It's an interesting shift by a president,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Week in Oil & Gas: Climate Bill Hurdles and Refining Blues
- A key Senate panel -- along with environmentalists, oil and gas industry folk and government energy officials -- squared off last week in a round of hearings aimed at hashing out the details of a climate bill. The initial hearings, as the WSJ notes, took on a familiar political...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
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- The American Bar Association's (Chicago, IL) Section of Environment, Energy and Resources has released "Global Climate Change and U.S. Law," a new 780-page paperback book that covers the federal, state and local laws and litigation that are deve
- The American Bar Association's (Chicago, IL) Section of Environment, Energy and Resources has released "Global Climate Change and U.S. Law," a new 780-page paperback book that covers the federal, state and local laws and litigation that are The American Bar Association's (Chicago, IL) Section of ...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Climate Hoax Burns U.S. Chamber, Lobby Group Turns to Law Enforcement
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sure sounded like a different organization this morning as a spokesman threw around phrases like "support a strong climate-change bill quickly" and "the Kerry-Boxer bill is a good start." Could it be that the U.S. Chamber had made a sudden and unexpected U-turn? Was the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- CIA Tackles Climate Change and Its Risk to National Security
- The Central Intelligence Agency -- the country's first line of defense -- will add rising sea levels, desertification and population shifts caused by climate change as one more potential threat to national security. The CIA announced recently it will open the Center on Climate Change and National...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- PNM Resources Executive Announces Eight Principles for Addressing Climate Change; Sterba Testifies on Climate Change Before U.S. Senate Energy Committee
- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- PNM Resources' (NYSE: PNM) top officer told members of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the time has come to fully engage on the right design for a mandatory climate change program.
- Research articles 2006-04-04
- Report urges high efficiency, alternate energy to combat climate change. (National Research Council)
- Report urges high efficiency, alternate energy to combat climate change The U.S. must make major advances in energy efficiency, develop and adopt low-and non-CFC-emitting energy technologies, and refocus energy research and development priorities to do so, if it is to achieve meaningful reductions...
- Research articles 1990-10-22
- American Military Leaders to Release Report Monday Examining Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. National Security
- To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSContact: Noel Gerson, +1-703-824-2758, gersonn@cna.org or Patrick Mellody, +1-202-365-2939, pmellody@gmail.com, both of CNA CorporationWASHINGTON, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A blue-ribbon panel of eleven retired three-star and four-star admirals and generals will release a report in Washington on Monday (April 16) looking at how changing global climate may present...
- Research articles 2007-04-12
- Energy Roundup: Lithium Battery Alliance, U.S. Uranium for Sale, EU Fights Warming, and More
- Industry titans including 3M and Johnson Controls call for lithium-ion battery funding, EU passes climate-change laws, U.S. uranium for sale, China cuts fuel prices but raises taxes, and more. by Christopher Wink
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Abandoning Ship: Nike Quits Chamber Board Over Climate Change Stance
- Nike -- a longtime proponent of reducing greenhouse gas emissions -- has resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce board to protest the business group's opposition of climate-change legislation. Nike fundamentally disagrees with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the issue of climate change and their recent...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Exelon Ditches U.S. Chamber Over Climate Policy, Who Will Leave the "Voice of Business" Next?
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's stance on climate-change legislation continues to alienate its member base. This time it's Exelon, the third utility to desert the U.S. Chamber in a week. It's not quite a exodus. But momentum is building against the powerful lobbying group -- described as...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Cisco Makes Presence Known at Climate Change Confab
- When delegates arrive in Copenhagen for the United Nation's Climate Change Conference Dec. 7, Cisco will be extending the conferess' global reach with the company's Global Climate Change Meeting Platform.When the United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Copenhagen Dec. 7, Cisco will be there and there and there as...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Copenhagen Countdown: Obama Heading to Climate Talks Armed with U.S. Emissions Target
- The hand-wringing and speculation over whether President Obama will attend international climate talks next month can finally be laid to rest. The White House made it official this morning and announced Obama would in fact be heading to Copenhagen to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-25
- CLIMATE CHANGE BILL REAPPEARS IN U.S. WITH RENEWED BIPARTISAN SUPPORT
- Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate introduced global climate change bills in both chambers of Congress recently. The rare show of bipartisan support was even more notable for the legislation's subject matter, arguably one of the most controversial policy issues in recent decades."I am pleased to be...
- Research articles 2005-02-16
- CIA Climate Change Center Survives Funding Opposition
- The Central Intelligence Agency's plan to open the Center on Climate Change and National Security faced a setback -- aka Sen. John Barrasso --earlier this week, over opposition to what the Republican Wyoming senator called "misguided defense funding priorities." BNET Energy wrote about the CIA's new center on climate change...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Energy Policy TV Video: White House's Connaughton on Bali Climate Change Talks, Energy Bill, Light Bulbs and CO2
- WASHINGTON -- James Connaughton, Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, told an Energy Policy TV Newsmaker hosted by the United States Energy Association and co-sponsored by BP America and PricewaterhouseCoopers that the recent U.N. climate change negotiation in Bali accomplished the U.S. objectives for the meeting and...
- Research articles 2007-12-20
- Week in Oil & Gas: Boxer-Kerry Bill, EPA Emissions Rules, and China's Oil Grab Efforts
- Greenhouse gas emissions dominated headlines throughout the week with the introduction of legislation that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and another government agency jumping into propose its own rules for industrial facilities. The Senate -- via co-sponsors Barbara Boxer, D- Calif., and John Kerry, D-Mass. -- introduced its...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Capping greenhouse gas emissions: the U.S. Senate plans to consider climate change legislation on greenhouse gas emissions this summer
- The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced that the Senate plans to take up a climate change bill, America's Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191), after the Memorial Day recess. The bill would impose a cap on greenhouse gas emissions and set up a...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
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