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Mar 11, 2010
The View From Big Oil
We are focusing a lot on biofuels at this stage. We just announced a few weeks ago a big joint venture in Brazil where we are bringing our first- and second-generation biofuels technologies together with Cosan, a sugar ethanol producer there, in order to speed up the second-generation capabilities because we need to speed up that process.
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Mar 4, 2010
Natural Gas Tilts at Windmills in Power Feud
Many environmental groups talk of how wind and relatively clean-burning natural gas can partner to displace dirtier coal, creating a path to power the U.S. while releasing fewer greenhouse gases. A bitter fuel fight in Texas points to a different future: one in which gas and wind are foes.
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Feb 25, 2010
Small Reactors Generate Big Hopes
A new type of nuclear reactor—smaller than a rail car and one tenth the cost of a big plant—is emerging as a contender to reshape the nation's resurgent nuclear power industry...The news comes just as President Barack Obama announced more than $8 billion in loan guarantees this week that would pave the way for the first nuclear power plant in the U.S. in decades.
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Feb 19, 2010
China Undercounted Pollution by Half
China's government said its water is far more polluted and its industry is producing far more waste than previously realized, in a major study that environmentalists welcomed as a step toward greater transparency.
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Feb 14, 2010
Employers Growing Green
by Sherri Heller, Sunday Star Ledger, Feb. 7. Great article about the green economy and continues on most of the page on p. 11 on second link with some wonderful quotes and references to TTG.
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Feb 11, 2010
Using Smokestack Gases to Pump Oil
Carbon dioxide pouring from smokestacks hardly has a reputation as a valuable commodity. But one company has launched a series of projects to see if it can use the refuse of the industrial economy to breathe new life into tired oil fields.
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Jan 28, 2010
SEC Sets Corporate Climate-Change
By Jim Efstathiou Jr.
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Companies must consider the effects of global warming and efforts to curb climate change when disclosing business risks to investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.
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Jan 25, 2010
Climate-Change Claim Under Fire
An influential United Nations panel is facing growing criticism about its practices after acknowledging doubts about a 2007 statement that Himalayan glaciers were retreating faster than those anywhere else and would entirely disappear by 2035, if not sooner.
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Jan 17, 2010
Job Creation Takes On New Importance in Climate-Change Fight
If the public has to choose between creating jobs and spending billions to scrub invisible heat-trapping gases from the sky, jobs will win. That's why the campaign to combat climate change is morphing, at least politically, into an economic-development drive with an environmental twist.
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Jan 9, 2010
Clean Energy Sources: Sun, Wind and Subsidies
[Fans of renewable energy] are concerned that society, in its haste to roll out wind turbines, solar panels and other forms of clean power, is spending billions of dollars without spurring as much renewable energy as it could.
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Dec 29, 2009
Hawaii Harnesses the Wind
Michael W. Allman, president and chief executive officer of Sempra Generation, said that "Hawaii will value energy storage and renewable energy more than anyone else as it's completely captive to oil and its volatility, which puts an economic squeeze on the state."
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Dec 21, 2009
Carbon-Permit Slide Reflects Copenhagen Disappointment
"The end game in Copenhagen was symbolic of the conference's broader procedural failings," says Michael Levi, director of energy security and climate change at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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Dec 12, 2009
Envoy Says U.S. Won't Pay China to Cut Emissions
"[US climate envoy Todd Stern] said the U.S. doesn't plan to give money to China to subsidize its efforts to curb greenhouse emissions, and said developing nations can't get "a pass" from demands to burn less fossil fuels."
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Dec 5, 2009
Climate Scientist Steps Down
"...hackers recently stole emails and documents from the East Anglia center that suggested Dr. Jones and other like-minded scientists tried to squelch the views of dissenting researchers and advocated manipulating data."
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Nov 25, 2009
Global Warming With the Lid Off
"In [the emails] scientists appear to urge each other to present a "unified" view on the theory of man-made climate change while discussing the importance of the "common cause"; to advise each other on how to smooth over data so as not to compromise the favored hypothesis; to discuss ways to keep opposing views out of leading journals; and to give tips on how to "hide the decline" of temperature in certain inconvenient data."
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Nov 17, 2009
Political Hurdles Surround Climate Summit
"Alternative producers need to see the right signals from policy makers before they will make decisions to invest billions of dollars in alternative-energy sources...Copenhagen is where those signals need to come from."
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Nov 11, 2009
Railroads & Windmills: Berkshire's 'Green' Bets
"The one thing we won't do is get involved in fads," said David Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican, in an interview. "We're looking at game changers."...If the company succeeds in producing batteries that can make power storable and portable, that could change the economics of alternative power.
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Nov 3, 2009
Sins of Emission
With everything supposedly balancing out, the cap-and-trade programs run by the United Nations and European Union—and maybe soon the U.S.—treat biofuels as carbon-neutral. The Science study argues that this is a false economy, because it doesn't consider changes in land use.
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Oct 28, 2009
Key Democrat Cites Concerns on Climate Bill
As proposed, the bill risks moving legislators "further away from that achievable consensus on common-sense climate-change [legislation]," Mr. Baucus said.
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Oct 21, 2009
Big Oil Looks to Biofuels
"The oil companies…see a world of restrictions coming on high-carbon fuels, and they need alternatives,"
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Oct 15, 2009
Wind Energy Doesn't Require Excessive Land Use
"..only 2% to 5% of that land is actually disturbed for turbines, service roads, etc., which means that for America to generate 20% of its electricity from wind, the amount of land actually used is about half the size of Anchorage, Alaska,..."
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Oct 15, 2009
Energy 'Sprawl' and the Green Economy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009, 9:30 A.M. ET
We're about to destroy the environment in the name of saving it.
Oct 8, 2009
Wanted: Leadership on Jobs
Without more federal stimulus spending to spur job creation, the job market, which is already bleak, could get bleaker.
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Oct 8, 2009
Scattered in Suburbs, and in Need
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Oct 7, 2009
Transitioning to Green Forum
Are you looking to transition into a greener career? Attend the Transitioning to Green Forum a highly interactive, unique, one-day event with subject matter experts (SME’s) in sustainability and green jobs. Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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