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- Climate-Bill Stimulus: EPA Sends Greenhouse Gas Finding to White House
- While climate-change legislation continues its political roller coaster ride through Congress, another effort to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is underfoot. The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final finding on whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to human health and welfare, Reuters reported....
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Geoengineering Gets a Hearing in Congress -- and in the U.K., Too
- Geoengineering -- the concept of deliberately manipulating the earth's climate system to counteract climate change -- made its debut in Congress this week, which I suppose makes it officially "mainstream." The House's Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing on geoengineering -- the first serious congressional...
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Cow Burps OK: House, Senate Block EPA From Regulating Livestock Emissions
- Farmers can breath a little easier now -- cows can burp and fart without fear of the Environmental Protection Agency regulating their methane emissions. You may remember the "cow tax" rumors that floated around late last year and caused an uproar among farmers and ranchers worried the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Deutsche Bank's Carbon Counter and the Business of Greenhouse Gases
- Deutsche Bank's ginormous "Carbon Counter" -- unveiled Thursday in New York City -- is the type of in-your-face campaign passers-by will find nearly impossible to ignore. The towering electronic billboard -- with its 13-number red digital display and 'Climate Change Affects Everyone' message perched on top --...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Sue Big Oil Over Global Warming? Court Tells Katrina Victims, Yes You Can!
- Landowners along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are blaming a mishmosh of oil, coal and chemical companies for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina as a result of global warming. Yes, that's right, the specter of global warming lawsuits has come to call and thanks to a recent federal appeals ruling, the plaintiffs...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Five and Counting: Apple Quits Chamber of Commerce
- Apple has turned in its membership card to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- effective immediately -- over the business lobbying group's opposition to the Environmental Protection's Agency effort to limit greenhouse gases. Apple's departure from the Chamber may not be as surprising as say, three utilities quitting the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- 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
- 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
- It's Official: EPA Says Greenhouse Gases a Threat, Regulation Closer Than Ever
- As expected, the Environmental Protection Agency declared Monday that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are a threat to public health and welfare. The EPA didn't stop there. It also found that GHG emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat, a ruling that opens the door to direct regulation...
- Blog posts 2009-12-07
- EPA To Formally Declare CO2 Emissions a Danger
- The Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled a press conference that is starting any minute and is expected to layout its plan to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. I'll be tuning into the press conference via conference call and will provide an update later. ...
- Blog posts 2009-12-07
- 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
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- Energy Roundup: Hydrogen-Powered Tractors, EPA's Big Plans, and More
- New Holland puts hydrogen fuel cells to work in new tractors -- New Holland is developing a tractor that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell instead of gasoline and hopes to have a production model ready by 2013. The NH2, which has no gears and would...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Week in Oil & Gas: G20 Axes Subsidies, Obama-Hu Climate Rhetoric, and Chevron Sues
- The week ended with a muffled bang as the Group of 20 nations agreed to phase out government subsidies for fossil fuels. Ending fossil fuel subsidies would have an impact -- positive or negative, depending on whose talking.  But the agreement is viewed largely symbolic since G20 leaders did...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Week in Oil & Gas: Discovery Hot Spots, Nat Gas' $80M Advocacy Campaign and One Big LNG Project
- It wouldn't be a worthwhile week in the oil and gas industry without a few discoveries. And my, there were some goodies. The hot spots this week were in the ultra deep waters offshore Brazil, Sierra Leone, Venezuela and Uganda. And Spanish energy company Repsol YPF found...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Exxon-XTO Deal a Bet On Natural Gas as Go-To Global Power Source
- ExxonMobil's acquisition of XTO Energy, an independent oil and gas producer and major player in unconventional gas, is not only a ringing endorsement for demand in natural gas. It's a bet that the world, especially developing nations, will turn to natural gas to meet its power generation needs. Meaning, as...
- Blog posts 2009-12-14
- 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
- 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
- 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
- IEA's Chief Economist: U.S. Nat Gas Industry a Global Game-Changer
- The boom in unconventional gas production in the United States is an international game-changer that will have far-reaching implications to global supply and prices. At least that's the word -- and an intriguing one at that -- from the International Energy Agency in its highly anticipated 2009 World Energy Outlook. Massive amounts...
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Energy Roundup: EPA Deems CO2 Hazardous, Pope Pursues Solar, and More
- EPA proposal on greenhouse gases could trigger regulation -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued its proposal on greenhouse gases today, and as expected the agency has determined that CO2 -- and five other gases including methane and hydrofluorocarbons -- is bad for humans and contributes to global warming. The proposal may push...
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
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