When looking into America’s future, one thing is clear-energy matters.
The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to invest in innovation for affordable clean energy technologies, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy director Dr. Arun Majumdar said in a webcast on Wednesday. Keep reading →
Facing continued litigation, CA officials delay enforcement of the state’s complex #carbon trading program till 2013 http://lat.ms/jDB3Cv @Aolenergy
“Let’s compete a little bit,” Siemens‘ Chief Sustainability Officer Alison Taylor told Breaking Energy.
Competition, she said, will motivate cities that are not ranked near the top of a newly-released Siemens-sponsored report on energy efficiency to implement programs that will improve their score. Keep reading →
Q: What do you mean by “interim” solution?”
A: Our national discourse with regard to our energy policy is focused on what is generally referred to as an “energy crisis.” But what we really have is a fuel crisis as a result of the end of cheap, easy oil. Keep reading →
The mission: defeat the enemy while preserving Uncle Sam’s pocketbook. Saving the Earth is a worthy, but secondary, objective.
The Department of Defense last week rolled out its plan to consume less, and find new ways to source, energy. The need has become particularly pressing as operations in Afghanistan and Iraq last year led U.S. forces to consume 5 billion gallons of fuel. The military’s insatiable thirst for energy puts troops in danger as they transport fuel through hostile territory – the Marines estimate one service member is killed for every 24 convoys. It also exposes the Pentagon budget to price shocks in volatile energy markets. Keep reading →
If anyone knows clean and green energy it is former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, an unusual elected politician who also has a background as a public utility commissioner and served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency a decade ago.
Nuclear energy needs to stay at its current 20% share of total electricity generation, Whitman told Breaking Energy during a swing through New York. One of the rare governors who has kept a high profile since leaving the administration, she now runs Whitman Strategy Group in New Jersey and Washington, DC and also serves as co-chair of the CASEnergy Coalition. Keep reading →
CA-based #Genomatica wins @EPAgov Presidential #Green #Chemistry Challenge Award for “transforming” chemical industry – http://bit.ly/itZk3o @Aolenergy
When does an alternative energy source start to be just an energy source, no “alternative” required?
Solar power isn’t at that tipping point yet, but forecasts for the day when electricity from the sun achieves global price parity with electricity derived from established fossil fuels are proliferating even among serious-minded business people. Keep reading →
The House Republican leadership and Tea Party conservatives have made it clear they plan to run a crusade against regulation generally, and environmental regulation, in particular. They are planning to bring up legislation in July that would dismantle the regulatory system, and spending bills are already starting to fill up with riders to block specific rules.
Once rules have been in place for a time, they tend either to be taken for granted, or celebrated as “progress” that was made by society as a whole Keep reading →
Despite a storm of press this week on delays in an EPA greenhouse gas report, the Environmental Protection Agency says it will maintain its May 26, 2012 deadline for releasing final environmental standards on polluting gases blamed for global warming.
“EPA has engaged in an extensive and open public process to gather the latest and best information prior to proposing carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants, one of the largest stationary sources of carbon pollution,” the EPA said in a statement to AOL Energy. Keep reading →
