Grist | Topics | 3377 Results

RESULTS		Results 1 – 25 of 3377
Page:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 136
Headline	Author	Published	Section
The biggest low-carbon resource, by far Energy efficiency is the core climate solution, part 1	Joseph Romm	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Energy efficiency is the most important climate solution for several reasons: It is by far the biggest resource. It is by far the cheapest, far cheaper than the current cost of unsustainable energy, so cheap that it helps pay for the other solutions. It is by far the fastest to deploy. It is 'renewable' -- the efficiency potential never runs out. This post focuses on number one -- the tremendous size of the resource.Of the 14 or so wedges we need to deploy g ...
Topics: climate, cogeneration, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

A renewable win Two-pronged strategy to sway energy policy debate	Jason D Scorse	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Putting aside the causes of the oil-price rise and what the future holds, I am concerned that progressives are losing the public debate about what to do about it. Like David, I was extremely disappointed with Gore's interview on Meet the Press this past week, both with respect to the ridiculous questions from Brokaw and Gore's complete inability to get the right message across. And now we have an editorial from The Wall Street Journal (as well as John McCain himsel ...
Topics: Al Gore, energy, gas prices, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

A media boon for Pickens T. Boone Pickens' plan is overexposed and inferior to Gore's	Joseph Romm	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
It's official: T. Boone is overexposed. His monotonous TV ad runs on an endless loop, he has testified in front of Congress, he is now appearing on every cable show, and everybody quotes him even though he doesn't actually agree with anybody but himself. What specifically bugs me: His ads say we can't drill our way out of this problem, but then he says we should drill everywhere -- offshore, Alaska, your backyard. He keeps pushing his absurd idea of switchin ...
Topics: Al Gore, cars, climate, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

U.S. Geological Survey Says ... Arctic holds vast untapped oil and gas reserves		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:48 AM on 24 Jul 2008 The Arctic Ocean holds up to 20 percent of the world's undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas reserves, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey. A four-year study found that the region contains up to 90 billion barrels of oil and almost a third of the world's undiscovered natural gas -- about 1,670 trillion cubic feet. However, even with climate change im ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Be a Dolly and Cancel My Trip, Will You? Hurricane Dolly cancels McCain's trip to offshore oil rig		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 6:57 AM on 24 Jul 2008 John McCain had planned to visit an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to tout offshore drilling and the industry's environmental friendliness, but Hurricane Dolly canceled his plans. Dolly hit land in Texas Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, cutting oil and gas production by some 5 to 8 percent overall. McCain and other Republicans have been pushing to allow ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, severe weather (all these topics)

Gas squeeze Investigative report details threat gas drilling poses to N.Y.'s freshwater resources	Russ Walker	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Investigative news startup ProPublica this week blew some fresh air into Albany, N.Y., with a report on state regulators' and lawmakers' headlong rush to open up more areas to natural-gas exploration. In partnership with WNYC, ProPublica called into question the state's conclusion that freshwater sources in the state would not be contaminated by the expanded drilling. To the contrary, the news partners 'found that this type of drilling has caused significant environme ...
Topics: energy, New York, oil and gas drilling, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Precedent versus vision The media's central arguments for and against Gore's challenge to the nation	Sara Barz	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Nearly a week after Gore unveiled his carbon-free challenge (sounds sadly kind of like a reality TV gimmick), the substantive reactions from the nation's editorial pages and blogosphere fit (for better of for worse) into two groupings: precedent versus vision. Brushing past the naysayers (John Tierney and his 'junk science' complaints) and the yes-men (Christine Pelosi and her Gorish platitudes), those in the 'precedent' camp tend to disapprove of Gore's goal on the ...
Topics: Al Gore, energy, mainstream media, renewable energy (all these topics)

Union of the states America's governors unite to plead for extension of renewable tax credits	David Roberts	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Today, 50 governors -- if you're counting, that's all of them -- sent a letter to Congress [PDF] asking that the tax credits for renewable energy be extended by at least five years: Renewable energy plays an important role in our nation's energy security, and governors have pioneered a wide array of innovative energy policies in their states. To supplement state efforts, governors support the development of federal tax incentives, including clean renewable energy bo ...
Topics: energy, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

You're Lookin' Swelled, Dolly Hurricane Dolly hits land, skirts oil and gas facilities		23 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 2:54 PM on 23 Jul 2008 Hurricane Dolly hit land in Texas Wednesday as a Category 2 storm. No deaths have been reported and the storm had a minimal impact on oil and gas operations; it largely missed offshore oil and gas facilities, but did cut production 10 to 20 percent at some refineries and by 5 to 8 percent overall. Oil futures hardly budged, and a collective sigh of relief went up from those wh ...
Topics: energy, news, severe weather, Texas (all these topics)

Knocking down the energy jobs myth It's the fossil fuel crowd that's against American jobs	David Roberts	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Reading around on reactions to the latest oil shale hubbub, I keep seeing conservatives saying that greens against dirty energy development are opposing "American jobs." It's important that everyone involved in fighting oil shale -- and other drill-and-burn energy policies -- understand something simple: the U.S. energy sector has very low "labor intensity." That is to say, fossil fuel exploration, drilling, and refinement is capital-intensive ...
Topics: economy, energy, fossil fuels, oil (all these topics)

A Hoffa you can't refuse Blockbuster Teamsters announcement rejects oil drilling as an energy solution	David Roberts	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
For years, the Teamsters have supported opening the Arctic Refuge and other protected areas to oil drilling; they ran ads bashing John Kerry on it in 2004. So it is a Very Big Deal that the Teamsters have just come out and rejected drilling as a solution to the energy crisis. At an event in Oakland, Calif., Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said that drilling won't do anything to help; he announced that the Teamsters are withdrawing from the coalition pushing for ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, renewable energy (all these topics)

What is Gore's next step? From fossil fuels to manufacturing for wind and solar energy	Jon Rynn	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
A couple of years ago, Al Gore made the case, in a film called An Inconvenient Truth, that we have a big problem called global warming. But the film was not effective at pointing to a solution. Humans evolved to consider a crisis as a challenge, as long as a solution is readily available. Otherwise, panic or resignation sets in. Now, Gore has moved a significant step further by arguing that all sources of electricity should be carbon-free -- in other words, all of our ...
Topics: Al Gore, economy, energy, green jobs, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Invade in the Shade Trees win in California solar panels vs. redwoods dispute		23 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:40 AM on 23 Jul 2008 Trees have emerged victorious in a California dispute that pitted redwoods against solar panels. Six months ago, Silicon Valley residents Richard Treanor and Carolynn Bissett were criminally convicted because their redwoods shaded the 10-kilowatt solar system on neighbor Mark Vargas' roof. Ultimately, Treanor and Bissett were forced to trim their trees and paid $37,000 in legal fees. T ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, energy at home, green living, insanity, litigation, news, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Shale We Dance? Bush admin proposes low royalty rates in push for U.S. oil-shale development		23 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:43 AM on 23 Jul 2008 The Bush administration proposed rules [PDF] for U.S. oil shale development Tuesday that include charging lower royalty rates for oil-shale production on public lands than it does for other oil and gas drilling. The lower royalties are meant to encourage oil-shale production since, as it turns out, the energy- and pollution-intensive process of cooking rocks before pumpi ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil, public lands, United States (all these topics)

Shale Mary It's a 1980 flashback, as energy price spikes make oil shale economical once again	David Roberts	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Bush administration's latest push to force dirty energy extraction down the throats of Americans living in western states has some historical pedigree. Extracting oil from keragen -- somewhat misleadingly known as "oil shale" -- by cooking the rock at high temperatures is an environmental, social and economic nightmare that's been with us since the 17th century. It's come and gone in various countries at various times, most persistently in such vibrant, p ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

House GOP offers Americans false hope, failed policies, and eco-havoc Memo calling for increased offshore drilling and shale development	Joseph Romm	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I have received the text of an Alice-in-Wonderland memo (below) that House Republican leaders will circulate today on legislation they plan to offer. It claims: To increase the supply American-made energy in environmentally sound ways, the legislation will: * Open our deep water ocean resources, which will provide an additional 3 million barrels of oil per day;* Open the Arctic coastal plain, which will provide an additional 1 million barrels of oil per day; an ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, gas prices, oil and gas drilling, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Matt Yglesias is making sense	David Roberts	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On Republican gas price demagoguery: [Anti-density zoning and minimum parking mandates] are regulatory barriers to solving our energy problems every bit as much as the ban on offshore drilling is. And conservatives are against regulation, right? Except the anti-drilling regulation is good for the environment and for coastal economies whereas anti-urbanist regulation is economically inefficient and environmentally destructive. Naturally, conservatives have chosen ...
Topics: energy, oil and gas drilling, politics, regulation, urban planning (all these topics)

Oregon trail Grist talks to Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Merkley	Kate Sheppard	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Oregon Senate candidate Jeff Merkley was in Austin for Netroots Nation, where he appeared on a panel about energy issues. Merkley is attempting to unseat Gordon Smith, the sole GOP senator on the West Coast, this November, and he's put climate and environment issues at the top of his campaign agenda. His plans include calling for a 25 percent renewable energy national standard by 2025, cutting emissions 80 percent by mid-century, and creating incentives for cities ...
Topics: elections, energy, Muckraker, news, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

My coal Kentucky home Kentucky to build new coal-to-liquids plant	Joseph Romm	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. Kentucky has selected a site to build a $4 billion coal-to-liquids plant in Pike County that would produce 50,000 barrels of liquid coal a day. According to Kentucky's Lexington Herald-Leader: ... The county would use federal and state grant money to put the basic infrastructure in place, including water and sewer, and the company chosen to operate the facility would pay for the rest.Coun ...
Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, Kentucky, mining (all these topics)

This Too Shale Pass Bush admin proposes rules for domestic oil-shale development		22 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:35 AM on 22 Jul 2008 The Bush administration today will propose rules for tapping the U.S.'s vast oil-shale deposits, estimated to hold up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Oil shale development is enormously expensive and spectacularly polluting, but the U.S. Department of the Interior is expected to frame the debate in terms of high fuel prices and domestic "energy security." Presid ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Cape blind A failure of leadership in the wind	Erik Hoffner	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This recently appeared in Wendy Williams' blog. She is coauthor of the book Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound, now out in paperback -- a fascinating and horrifying read. ----- I've been giving lots of talks about Cape Wind around the country, and I can tell you -- the American people are getting really angry. Both Democrats and Republicans are equally disgusted by what they read in our book about Cape ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, Massachusetts, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Reframing the energy debate, part 1 Time to stop using the phrase 'renewable energy'	Joseph Romm	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is the first in an occasional series on reframing the energy and climate debate. I welcome all ideas on how we can improve our language in what is now the central front in the war to protect the health and well-being of American families and all future generations. The phrase 'renewable energy' is often used by the media and conservatives to give lip service to clean energy sources -- by lumping them all together in order to trivialize them or diminish their ind ...
Topics: energy, environmental movement, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Gore's plan is more than 100 percent feasible We can do more than he calls for, but I would settle for Gore's objective	Gar Lipow	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Everyone is talking about Gore's proposal to decarbonize electricity over the course of 10 years. Without considering transmission and storage losses, Gore's estimate of $1.5 to 3 trillion would require capital costs of under 37 to 74 cents per annual kWh. Taking those losses into consideration, cost would have to be more in the 28 to 56 cents per kWh range. (Note again these are not cost per watt of capacity. These are costs per annual kWh. They are levelized cos ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Newt's got a song Will Washington buy his brand of snake oil?	Miles Grant	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
One of the all-time great episodes of The Simpsons is 'Marge vs. the Monorail,' written by Conan O'Brien. The EPA fines Mr. Burns for dumping nuclear waste, leading to an unexpected cash windfall for Springfield. Marge suggests spending the money to repair the town's tattered infrastructure. But just as her proposal is about to pass, a fast-talking charlatan named Lyle Lanley arrives and sells the ever-gullible people of Springfield on a plan to build a monorail, cli ...
Topics: energy, Newt Gingrich, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Dude, where's my coalition? Progressives discover there is no coherent energy movement to take advantage of this moment	David Roberts	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I talked with lots of people inside and outside the green movement at Netroots Nation, and one theme arose again and again. Everyone agrees that the energy issue is more salient every day, in virtually every area of politics (economy, foreign policy, etc.). Lots of people are now being pushed to address it. They're looking around for a pre-existing coalition to hook into, and since energy thinking has been outsourced to the green movement for decades now, that's the o ...
Topics: energy, environmental movement, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Page:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 136		Results 1 – 25 of 3377

Stories About: energy