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EarthJustice challenges the legality of the draft plan for California’s AB 32
EarthJustice is challenging the legality of the draft release of California’s climate change program, AB 32. They say it fails to follow all of the statutory requirements. Specifically: This letter focuses on three primary deficiencies in the Draft Scoping Plan: first, the Draft Scoping Plan uses the 2020 greenhouse gas emission limit as a ceiling […]
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Department of Energy flushes $15 million down the hydrogen toilet
There are only three sure things in life — death, taxes, and you won’t be buying a hydrogen fuel cell car. Sadly, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has not gotten any of the memos (see “Some clarity on the Clarity” and “This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars […]
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Cuckoo bananas energy policy from House conservatives
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) personifies just how haywire House conservatives have gone lately, particularly on energy issues. She quickly made a name for herself after being elected to Congress in 2006. In fact, she gained some dubious notoriety even before being elected, announcing to a Brooklyn Park, Minnesota congregation in October 2006 that "God then […]
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The electric sector’s price inversion
There is a phenomenon known in financial markets as an “inverted yield curve.” Like a stray elephant in Central Park, it is a reliable indicator that something odd is going on. It seldom lasts long, as markets quickly note and adjust to the weirdness. Prices in current electric markets are similarly inverted, especially in the […]
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Courage and song at Green Corps training
Last Friday, I lead a favorite Green Corps workshop on protest songs. When I first taught the session, years ago, I said that an organizer or campaigner might only be called upon to sing two songs in their career: We Shall Overcome at civil rights gatherings, and Solidarity Forever at labor conferences. The two experiences […]
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Brings back memories
I was working downtown when all this went down — smelled a little tear gas, got escorted out of my building by a gauntlet of fully armored riot police. Looking back, I wish I’d had a better sense of the significance at the time.
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Tribes gamble on coal, despite climate risks
“In every deliberation we must consider the impact on the seventh generation … even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine,” goes the Great Law of the Iroquois. If you embrace liquid coal, however, it is quite safe to say there is only one generation you are thinking of. […]
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Friday music blogging: The Felice Brothers
FMB apologizes for its long absence. As it happens, FMB’s author enjoyed his seventh anniversary of marriage to his wife not that long ago, and of late this song has seemed a fitting testament to that occasion, indeed to that marriage. It is by the Felice Brothers, from their recent eponymous debut album, which is […]
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Fleet of hydrogen concept vehicles crosses U.S. as part of Hydrogen Road Tour
The BMW Hydrogen 7 “stores its hydrogen as a super-cold liquid and burns it in a V-12 piston engine; BMW claims that the exhaust from the Hydrogen 7 is actually cleaner than the ambient air,” says The New York Times’ Wheels blog. Dan Riehl. A parade of hydrogen concept vehicles is undertaking a two-week sweep […]
