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Congressional Unveiling of Major Energy Savings and Carbon Reduction...

Do you want to save 4.48-7.95 million metric tons (MMT) of carbon annually (equivalent to removing approximately between 3-5.4 million automobiles annually)? Do you want to save 25 to 42 Terawatt hours (billion kWh) per year (equivalent to 3 to 6 nuclear power plants or 6 to 10 coal-fired plants)? Do...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2009 9:22 AM by Hansen, Dain

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, General, Electrical Grid, Environment, Regulation, renewable energy, electricity, economic stimulus, Emerging Technologies, climate change, Energy Resources, Congress, manufacturing, energy

Watch the Pots...They'll Eventually Boil

With every new presidential administration comes a different set of priorities and issues, and Congress' legislative agenda reflects this fact. However, while much of the media focus has been on the big ticket items--health care reform, climate change, regulation of the financial industry, and the...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2009 12:11 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Environmental Design, EFCA, climate change, Health Care, OSHA

Stimulus, Clean Energy, and Democracy

In my last blog I mentioned Tom Friedman's suggestion that clean energy policy might benefit from a less than democratic policy-making process. My own opinion was that we did not need to throw out the Constitution for one issue, but within our constitutional framework the legislature could structure...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2009 3:25 PM by Silcox, Clark

Filed under: renewable energy, climate change

Let's Not Slip on the BANANA Appeal

BANANA . The acronym, not the fruit. B uild A bsolutely N othing A nywhere N ear A nything. I first saw the acronym in Tom Friedman's tome to clean energy development, Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008). Friedman's reaction to the BANANAs: As a democracy, we in America have increasingly become that...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2009 10:55 AM by Silcox, Clark

Filed under: renewable energy, climate change

Warming and Trade

As Congress debates health care, its recent work on legislation to put in place new controls on energy usage and associated emission of "greenhouse gases" (GHG) has receded into the background somewhat, at least as the mainstream media is concerned. One of razor-edged issues at play in the...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 2:16 PM by updykec

Filed under: Trade, climate change

Cap and Trade Debate Ensures for a Hot Washington Summer

Just in case you didn't think Washington was hot enough in the summer, debate over climate change legislation (a.k.a., Waxman-Markey ) is starting to increase in volume. As a taste of things to come, Harvard Prof Greg Mankiw's recent blog post provides a virtual point-counterpoint exchange between...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2009 8:20 AM by golds

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, climate change

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