Senate Climate Debate: Six to Watch on the Climb to Sixty
redgreenandblue.org — If the Senate can get the 60 votes it needs to pass a climate bill, these are the six Senators that lobbyists will be courting, the White House will be pressing, and you should be watching. (Submitted by tbhurst) More...
India Continues to Argue Against Emission Cuts
redgreenandblue.org — The Indian government recently predicted a fourfold increase in CO2 emissions output in the next two decades. But India maintains that its per capita emissions are way below those of the developed countries and thus it would be unfair to ask it to set mandatory emission reduction targets. (Submitted by tbhurst) More...
Duke Energy Pulls Support for Dirty-Playing Clean Coal Lobby
redgreenandblue.org — Duke Energy, the North Carolina-based electric utility announced on Wednesday it would be leaving the controversial clean coal lobbying group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity over differences with the organization's opposition to clean energy and climate legislation being considered by Congress. (Submitted by tbhurst) More...
Ted Kennedy's Environmental Legacy
redgreenandblue.org — Kennedy was not known for his environmental politics, but what will be his legacy vis-a-vis the environment and energy? Will he be remembered for what many viewed as self-interested and elitist opposition to the proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, barely visible from the Kennedy’s Hyannisport compound? (Submitted by tbhurst) More...
Feds Pump $2.3 Billion into Clean Energy Manufacturing
redgreenandblue.org — New 30% tax credit for advanced energy manufacturing industries is for investment in new renewable energy manufacturing facilities and re-equipped or expanded facilities. “These tax credits will help create thousands of high quality manufacturing jobs in some of the highest growth segments of the economy.” (Submitted by naturalpapa) More...
Red Rocks: The Awesome Legacy of FDR's New Deal
redgreenandblue.org — Rather than merely “making work”, as so many critics like to say the New Deal did, it built its legacy on creating portals to the natural world like Red Rocks, that have brought tens of millions of people into the landscapes they could only read about before. (Submitted by jerryjamesstone) More...
Californians Still Not Ready for New Offshore Oil
redgreenandblue.org — Shortly after winning approval from the California State Senate, a controversial deal that would have allowed the first new offshore oil leases in California state waters in forty years, was rejected by the California State Assembly by a vote of 43-30. (Submitted by jerryjamesstone) More...
Feds: 13 New Solar Power Plants On Public Lands By 2013
redgreenandblue.org — In a plan released on Tuesday, federal agencies will work with western leaders to designate tracts of U.S. public lands in the West as prime zones for utility-scale solar energy development, fund environmental studies, open new solar energy permitting offices and speed reviews of industry proposals. (Submitted by SilicoSurfer) More...
CBO: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill to Cost Just $175/Household
redgreenandblue.org — With Speaker Nancy Pelosi likely bringing climate change legislation to the House for a floor vote later this week, a newly-released report by the Congressional Budget Office has some opponents of the wide-ranging legislation crying foul for its underestimation of the per-household economic cost of the bill. (Submitted by hbyrne) More...
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