Green jobs often lead to more pink slips
Detroit News
May 19, 2009
Repower America, a green energy advocacy organization founded by Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, is running television advertisements in northern Michigan to pressure U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) into supporting the American Clean Energy and Security Act, a major climate bill working through Congress.
MHA Carbon Capture Technology to be Demonstrated in Coal-Fired Power Plant
Frontier India
May 25, 2009
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, will jointly demonstrate a plant to test technology enabling recovery of between 100,000 and 150,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from flue-gas emissions from a coal-fired power generation plant.
US, Italy Sign Cooperation Agreement on Clean Coal and Carbon Capturing Technology
VOA News
May 23, 2009
A day ahead of the opening of the G-8 summit of energy ministers in Rome, the United States and Italy signed a cooperation agreement on clean coal and carbon capture technology.
China NDRC Gives Approval To Build 1st IGCC Power Plant-Executive
Dow Jones
May 22, 2009
GreenGen Co., majority held by China's largest power producer Huaneng Group, obtained approval from the National Development and Reform Commission to build the country's first commercial-scale Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant, the company's chief technology officer said.
Southern Company to Demonstrate Technology to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Electric Generating Plant
PR Newswire
May 21, 2009
Southern Company today announced plans to demonstrate carbon capture and sequestration on a coal-fired power generation plant to support the development of technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Let's Have Cap and No Trade
The Washington Post
May 19, 2009
The adage that everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die is on display again as the House considers a massive 932-page climate-change bill, introduced by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), that would establish a "cap and trade" system for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
Markets will decide nuclear's future, says FERC chairman
The New York Times
May 19, 2009
The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission told nuclear industry executives today that the construction of new nuclear and coal generating plants was a possible scenario for meeting U.S. electric power needs -- an effort to tame a tempest that followed his comments last month on electric power's future
US energy chief vows to pursue 'clean coal'
AFP
May 19, 2009
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu pledged Tuesday the administration would pursue "clean coal" technology, even as it focuses research on alternatives such as wind and solar.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce sharpens critique of House climate bill
The New York Times
May 15, 2009
Major climate and energy legislation moving through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would create an expensive, complicated, regulation-heavy system that would not spur developing nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce charges in a letter to lawmakers.
Commentary: Let's get real about alternative energy
CNN.com
May 15, 2009
We need to introduce simple arithmetic into our discussions of energy.
DOE chief announces billions for clean coal
The Associated Press
May 15, 2009
Energy Secretary Steven Chu says he will provide $2.4 billion from the economic recovery package to speed up development of technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and factories that burn coal.
Entergy chief promotes clean coal-fired energy
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
May 9, 2009
Unless the U.S. chooses to "fix what we've got" by making coal-fired power as clean as possible, the entire world could easily fail "the biggest challenge we've ever faced," Entergy Corp.'s chief executive officer said Friday.
Going green can cost too much green
USA Today
May 5, 2009
For two years, the city of Durango, Colo., bought electricity for all its government buildings from wind farms. The City Council ended that program this year, reverting to electricity derived from coal-burning plants and saving the cash-strapped city about $45,000.
Bipartisan Group Introduces Climate Change Bill as Talks Stall Between Obama, Dems
FOX
May 6, 2009
Talks stalled at the White House Tuesday over the president's cap and trade legislation, with a bipartisan group of House lawmakers introducing an alternative to the massive energy bill.
Kan. gov, utility CEO announce deal on coal plant
Associated Press
May 5, 2009
A western Kansas utility would be allowed to build a coal-fired power plant under a deal announced Monday.
Green hysteria shackles our economic growth
The Guardian
May 1, 2009
Emissions legislation and excessive fear of global warming are the last thing we need when the world economy is in recession
The Challenge: Constant Current From Fickle Winds
NPR
April 30, 2009
Like lots of other farmers and ranchers in the northern Plains, Joel Keierleber has been flirting with wind power developers for years.
Carroll: Make-believe world of cap and trade
The Denver Post
April 29, 2009
Don't worry, this shouldn't hurt. In fact, you won't feel a thing. So goes the refrain of those pushing for passage of a climate bill regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Just what do they think we're smoking?
Climate Bill: Yeah, But How Much Will It Really Cost?
Wall Street Journal
Keith Johnson
April 29, 2009
How can a single climate-change plan generate such wildly different estimates of how much it will cost? The battle over the bill for fighting climate change continues, even if the House debate over the matter is taking a week off.
Analysts say hybrid-electric cars will rule market, eventually
Climatewire
April 28, 2009
Two car-industry specialists laid down their predictions yesterday, forecasting that hybrid cars will become the dominant kind of vehicle after 2030. Speaking at an energy forum held by Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, former Honda analyst John German predicted that hybrids will be more than 60 percent of cars sold.
Kevin Rudd set to soften stance on energy
The Australian
April 29, 2009
Energy-hungry industries could be offered exemptions from the federal Government's new 20 per cent renewable energy target, as Kevin Rudd struggles to win support for his climate change policies in the face of the global economic crisis.