Latest Stories in Energy Policy - Page 11
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Energy News Recap: More Shale Gas Cuts Renewable Energy Investments, Solar PV Cheap As Fossil Fuels in Mideast, More
Plus, more on misinformation about Keystone XL and US energy independence, New Yorkers speak out against fracking, plus Occupy Wall Street energy bikes redeployed to Occupy DC.
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It's Time for an "Arab Spring for the Environment": Bill Richardson
I sat down with the former New Mexico Governor & ex-Energy Secretary to discuss clean energy, politics, and the environment.
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Turkey's Dam Plans Make New Problems With Neighbors
Fresh criticism from Georgian environmentalists adds to the diplomatic tensions created by Turkey's dam-building spree.
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Kirk Sorensen: "If Thorium is Good Enough for the Moon, It's Good Enough for Earth"
At TEDxYYC Kirk Sorensen shows us the liquid fuel thorium reactor, a totally different nuclear reactor that keeps most of the benefits but loses the downsides of what we have now.
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Energy News Recap: China May Soon Burn Half of All World's Coal, SuperFracking, Vestas Closing Wind Turbine Plants, More
Lots of energy news today; unfortunately, apart from the notion that peak oil is actually an opportunity for massive positive societal and environmental change which we'll get to in a few words, it's not really good news.
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Energy News Recap: Morocco Continues Big Wind Power Push, Plus Better Biofuels Though Zoo Poo
A bit less dramatic energy news coming down the pike this morning, but pretty interesting nonetheless.
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Canada's Minister of Natural Resources Calls Anti-pipeline Protesters Radicals Supported by "Jet-Setting Celebrities"
There are a number of mixed messages here, and none of them are good for the future of the Environment or for international relations
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Energy News Recap: Illinois Students Schooled on Renewables; Canada's Hijacked Energy Policy, More
A mixed bag in energy headlines this morning: Renewables education for the next generation, doctors want a fracking moratorium on health grounds, oil refiners fined for not blending in cellulosic ethanol, more...
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Why Free Energy Would Be a Very, Very Bad Thing
A new film claims free, unlimited energy is within our grasp, but is being kept secret by oil companies. Transition movement founder Rob Hopkins explains why we'd better hope that's a lie.
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Energy News Recap: 2.4 GW Seawater Pumped Hydro Project; China Ups Wind Power Target to 1000 GW
Plus... a former IEAer says oil to decline shortly after 2015 and Chevron smacked (again) by a judge. Here's what we've just been scanning in energy news.
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Energy News Recap: Record Energy Efficiency Investments In 2011, Chevron Still Must Pay $18bn Rainforest Destruction Fine
From record investments in energy investments made by US states, to East Africa's largest wind power project, Chicago's smart gridization, to Chevron's huge fine being upheld, here's what we're reading today.
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Energy News Recap: Keystone XL Whistleblowing, BP Spill Fingerpointing, Shale Gas Rising
"Let's be clear, I'm an engineer. I am not telling you we shouldn't build pipelines. We just should not build this one," Klink says about Keystone XL.
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Building Low-Carbon UK Economy Will Cost Same as Continuing High-Carbon Infrastructure
Critics often say that green energy is too expensive. A new open-source analysis tool says it's not. And that's not even taking into account the damage that fossil fuels create.
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Vermont Plans For 90% Of Its Energy From Renewable Sources By 2050
The report gives a snapshot of the challenge facing the Green Mountain State; it's essentially the same challenge facing the entire United States.
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Solar Power Trade War With China Will Cost US Jobs
A group saying it represents 97% of the US solar industry urges SolarWorld to drop its petition asking for tariffs on Chinese solar products, on the grounds US jobs are at stake.
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Major Victory for Solar: UK FiT Subsidy Cuts Declared Illegal
The High Court rules that hasty Government cuts to solar subsidies breached the law. Could this mean a reprieve for the UK solar industry?
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Matter Hatters Of Coal vs The Children: Which Side Will Business Leaders Take?
Industry's hand is being forced by EPA's final rule over power plant mercury emissions. Are they in favor of mercury polluiton?
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Canadian Government Goes Bananas Over Chiquita's Pledge To Avoid Tar Sands Oil
Another demonstration of how the Canadian government doesn't regulate the oil industry, it sleeps with it.
