Gigawatts of Recovery Act Renewable Energy Endangered in Banana Republic Tax Deal
December 8th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Image: GOP organizer Rush Limbaugh, who stands to make $2.6 million a year from the Republican tax bill. This week,
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Senator Inhofe Gets DOE Funds to Change his Mind
February 18th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Recovery Act stimulus funding for a technology that will make geothermal power available in every state is being invested in
Wyoming Voters Snap Up $10,000 Renewable Energy Grants Their Senators Opposed
January 18th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
In just the first ten days, Wyoming voters used up their share in the funds from The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act designed to end dependence on dirty energy. They voted with their feet against the Senators they sent to vote for dirty energy
Foreign Windpower Giant Iberdrola Taps Saudi Arabia of Wind Because We Can't
December 31st, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
Today, a European company put the finishing touches on a wind project in North Dakota which Americans have known for decades is "the Saudi Arabia of Wind." Spain's Iberdrola Renovables, the parent company of Iberdrola Renewables Inc that built the project became a giant global wind company in the wake of the Kyoto Accord. The European renewable energy sector grew from the resulting renewable energy legislation in Europe. The result is that it is European wind companies such as Vestas and Iberdrola, that are now building the wind energy that we need
The Fossil Party and the Future Party
December 6th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
One of the hardest parts of checking foreign news sources - to find out what others think of the emissions reductions targets their countries are bringing to Copenhagen - is deciphering the meaning of all those political parties' names. Who knows which side each of these is on, when it comes to climate change
EPA Wields Timely Stick: Ruling CO2 a Public Danger Before Copenhagen Climate Decision
December 6th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
In a bold move; well timed to coincide with the US Climate Summit decision at Copenhagen, this week the EPA will declare carbon dioxide a "Public Danger" - - triggering the certainty of regulation for big greenhouse gas emitters such as power stations, cement kilns, crude-oil refineries and chemical plants, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move essentially guarantees that fossil industries feel either the very sharp stick of this EPA ruling...or they allow some of the Senators they control to cross the aisle for the first time on energy legislation and ratify what President Obama has said he is taking to Copenhagen as the US offer: a carbon cut of 17% below 2005 by
President Obama Launches Secret Green Partnership With India to Cut CO2 Emissions Despite GOP Boycott
December 2nd, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
In a move sure to anger the Let’s-do-nothing-about-climate-change-till-China-and-India-do crowd, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India launched
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