climateprogress.org - 6/25/2009
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The EPA has posted its detailed analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) here . The bottom line is that the total cost to consumers is low, just as CBO found — just as all major independent analyses of even strong action show (see “” Intro to climate ...
realclimate.org - 6/30/2009
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realclimate.org —
Some parts of the blogosphere, headed up by
CEI (" CO2: They call it pollution, we call
it life! "), are all a-twitter over an apparently "suppressed" document that supposedly undermines the EPA Endangerment finding about human emissions of carbon ...
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epa.gov - 6/29/2009
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epa.gov —
EPA530-F-09-006 June 2009 Over the past several months,
EPA has undertaken a concerted effort to identify and
to assess the structural integrity of impoundments, dams, or other management units, within the electric power generating industry, holding ...
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Fact Sheet: Coal Combustion Residues (CCR) - Surface ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 6/25/2009
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Our guest blogger is Daniel J. Weiss, a
Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at
the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The main argument conservatives and big oil and coal companies use against the American Clean Energy and ...
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EPA: Waxman-Markey Will Lower Electricity Bills
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New EPA analysis of Waxman-Markey: Consumer electric bills 7% lower in 2020 thanks to efficiency — plus 50 GW of extra coal retirements and no new dirty plants
The Energy Collective —
The EPA has posted its detailed analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) here. The bottom line is that the total cost to consumers is low, just as CBO found — just as all major independent analyses of even strong action show (see “”Intro to climate economics“). You can read the House Energy and Commerce summary of the EPA analysis here. In this post from Wonk Room, guest blogger, Daniel J. Weiss, Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, discusses the EPA’s findings. At the end, I discuss a few flaws in the analysis, as well as the implications of Waxman-Markey for coal. ...
New EPA Analysis of Waxman-Markey: Consumer Electric Bills 7% Lower in 2020 Thanks To Efficiency
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... price (and availability) of natural gas in 2020. Historically, these have been two of the most difficult things to project. Obviously, if peak oil takes the oil price above $200 a barrel in 2020, then we’ll see relatively more reduction in oil use than expected. Similarly, if unconventional natural gas proves as abundant as recent production growth — and recent projections — suggest, then we’ll see relatively more reduction in coal use than expected. This piece originally appeared in Climate Progress . ...
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