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It’s no dig to say North Dakota has a long and profitable relationship with lignite coal. And it will likely continue. But make no mistake, the development of alternative energy sources, and the accompanying “green” jobs, will not be turned away. As the Tribune has said ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
Green Grid
North Dakota
Sen. Lindsey Graham may be under fire from conservatives back home in South Carolina. But the Republican got a personal assurance from President Obama yesterday that the White House is supporting his efforts to craft a sweeping Senate energy and global warming bill.
“The president told ...
Environment
Barack Obama
Global Warming
Change has been a constant throughout the history of our coal industry. West Virginians can choose to anticipate change and adapt to it, or resist and be overrun by it. One thing is clear. The time has arrived for the people of the Mountain State to think long and hard about which course ...
Environment
Climate Change
George Will
Energy Efficiency
Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, takes questions from reporters during a news conference in London on December 1, 2009. Stern, in reponse to questions about hackers who leaked emails from ...
Environment
Climate Change
An architect and construction manager discuss materials at the site of the Research Support Facilities Project for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which they hope will provide a national blueprint for making buildings greener and cutting energy use. This piece by guest blogger ...
Environment
Sen. Kerry sees ‘definite Republican votes’ for climate change legislation
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), a major architect of Senate climate change plans, on Wednesday said there are already GOP supporters of the legislation.
“There are definite Republican votes for this ...
Environment
Climate Change
Tom Vilsack
Global Warming
Energy Efficiency
The Climate Scoreboard is a new, easily accessible tool for understanding and tracking the global climate change negotiations in real time.
This new online resource — an embeddable widget , a short video , and a set of graphs and a table — reports, on a daily basis, the ...
Environment
Climate Change
This guest post is by Elizabeth Grossman, author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry and High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health , and other books. She writes about environmental and science issues for the ...
Environment
Climate Change
I’ll post Lubchenco’s equally terrific opening statement — which includes a couple of science demonstrations (!) on ocean acidification — when they are up. You can see all the videos and photos here .
Here is the closing statement of Chairman Markey (D-MA):
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Environment
Climate Change
John Holdren
NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt continues to do terrific work at RealClimate explaining climate science and the immateriality of the illegally hacked e-mails to our broad understanding of human-caused global warming. That, of course, is why the anti-scientific ideologues are going after him so ...
Environment
Global Warming
Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy, but do highlight ways in which climate researchers could be better supported in the face of public scrutiny.
The e-mail archives stolen last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have ...
Environment
Global Warming
So I just got a new Flip UltraHD camcorder in preparation for my trip to Copenhagen. Indeed, the entire Center for American Progress team will be outfitted with Flips to bring you as many video interviews as possible with the 20,000 attendees from around the world.
I brought it with me ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
The emails may give the anti-scientific ideologues in Congress something new to talk about, but fundamentally it’s their anti-scientific ideology that long ago determined their position on the gravest threat to the health and well-being of future generations:
Inhofe on why ...
Environment
Global Warming
“ Dan Templeton stands on the nacelle of a 2-megawatt DeWind turbine in Sweetwater, Texas. Four of the world’s five biggest wind projects are in Sweetwater’s Nolan County.” The photo is from a long article in Popular Science :
Why Texans See Green Gold in Renewable ...
Environment
Climate Change
China
India
Energy Efficiency
Green Grid
Global Warming
Our top climate scientist was interviewed by Newsweek ’s Science Editor last week. Sharon Begley talked to Hansen “on the eve of the publication of his first book, Storms of My Grandchildren , which he finished while recovering from treatment for prostate cancer and which will be ...
Environment
James Dobson
The challenges facing President Obama and the U.S. Congress have not gone away. Paul Krugman worries that “ unemployment is likely to stay near its current level for a year or more,” because “much of the political establishment now sees stimulus as having been discredited by events, so ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
WASHINGTON – With the international climate change talks in Copenhagen fast approaching, there is real urgency to reach diplomatic consensus on a planetary solution. In a hearing this Wednesday, the Select Committee will explore with climate scientists from the Obama administration the ...
Environment
Tiger Woods
Climate Change
Professor Phil Jones has today announced that he will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent Review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit.
That is from the University of East Anglia new ...
Environment
Van Jones
George Will
Climate Change
In January, a consortium of Dutch and Kenyan investors will begin construction on the $760 million project, which envisions more than 350 wind turbines towering over desert expanses near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. When completed in 2012, the wind farm is expected to boost the power ...
Environment
Kenya
Senator Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina: “We believe the Savannah River Site, Georgia, South Carolina can lead the country in this effort to become energy independent.“
… The U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu was on hand to break down the specifics on one of the largest ...
