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In SOTU, Obama trying yet again to blunt polluter attacks with policy concessions
In his State of the Union address tonight, Obama will try to convince the right that he loooves fossil fuels, despite his Keystone XL decision. As if going on the defensive has worked before.
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Natural gas: A bridge to nowhere
Natural gas might have been a "bridge fuel" to a low-carbon future 30 years ago, but today it does little to solve the climate problem, especially without a price on carbon.
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Twisted pipeline: GOP conspires with TransCanada to keep Keystone alive
Congressional Republicans are now openly acting as advocates for foreign oil interests, colluding with TransCanada lobbyists to push their tar-sands agenda.
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Use of wood for home heating explodes as oil prices climb
Good news for biomass-based energy enthusiasts: Heating with wood is making a comeback. If tree carcasses are good enough to power the trucks of energy-starved North Korea, they’re good enough for homesteaders in Maine! And more to the point, heating oil has gotten super expensive.
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Political leaders lowballed Gulf oil spill estimates
In the first weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, government scientists were scrambling to figure out how much oil was leaking from the well. These estimates kept being revised upwards as the scientists got more information — and then revised downwards as politicians pressured them to make […]
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On cleantech, no Newt is good Newt
No single politician since Ronald Reagan has done more to set back America’s leadership in clean technology than Newt Gingrich.
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Rebound rebound: Calling a foul on myself
I said a douchey thing on the blog the other day. (I know: breaking!) Forthwith, a retraction and apology.
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GOP isn’t giving up easy on Keystone XL
President Obama was pretty clear that he rejected the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit application because “the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact.” But congressional Republicans still haven’t gotten the message that maybe rushed and arbitrary deadlines aren’t working in their favor. Politico says House […]
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Government energy geeks: Fracking might not get us as far as we thought
Government energy geeks from the Energy Information Administration this morning released the abridged version of their Annual Energy Outlook. One of the most dramatic bits of the outlook for 2012 is that the EIA cut their estimate of “technically recoverable” shale gas almost in half, from 827 trillion cubic feet to 482 trillion cubic feet. […]
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World governments spend $1.4 billion a day to disrupt climate
A world facing catastrophic climate change can no longer justify $500 billion a year in subsidies to expand the burning of coal and oil. Carbon emissions could be cut worldwide simply by ending fossil fuel subsidies.