• VICTORY: Midwest Generation and GenOn Announce Coal Plant Closures

    Updated: 2012-02-29 20:28:11
    Well, folks, it seems the fight to phase out coal-fired electric generation is starting to work. Today, Midwest Generation announced that they will be closing their two dirty coal plants in Chicago, the Fisk coal plant in Pilsen will shut down in 2012 and the Crawford coal plant in Little Village will shut down by [...]

  • Power Politics: The Inside Track on Energy (The World's Most Important Resource)

    Updated: 2012-02-29 15:55:49
    : HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor NEW KINDLE ebook edition by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides What readers say An excellent , readable book for anyone who wants to know the real implications of climate madness for energy policy . Steve Goreham , author Climatism : Science , Common Sense and the 21 st Century's Hottest . Topic It doesn't matter if you believe global warming is

  • The Nuclear Option

    Updated: 2012-02-29 13:18:59
    Earlier this month, the NYS assembly released fundings from the energy committee and the committee on corporations, authorities and commissions, that NYS could still provide sufficient power to NYC if it closed down Indian Point.   Findings The findings were based on a number of assumptions, including significant upgrades to the State’s transmission system and [...]

  • Fuelling the Rise of the Anglosphere

    Updated: 2012-02-29 09:23:34
    HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor NEW KINDLE ebook edition by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides What readers say An excellent , readable book for anyone who wants to know the real implications of climate madness for energy policy . Steve Goreham , author Climatism : Science , Common Sense and the 21 st Century's Hottest . Topic It doesn't matter if you believe global warming is

  • Day One of Landmark Clean Air Cases: A Report from the Courtroom

    Updated: 2012-02-29 00:05:29
    Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. heard oral arguments in two of EPA’s critical climate protections: EPA’s finding that six greenhouse gases endanger the human health and welfare of current and future generations; and EPA’s greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks.  I had the chance to sit in the [...]

  • Infographic The idea of a climate change hoax makes no sense Grist

    Updated: 2012-02-28 13:40:41
    : Skip to content Skip to site navigation Support independent green news Donate Climate Energy Food Cities Living Biz Technology How to turn an abandoned oil silo into an awesome sustainable home Climate Skeptics Infographic : The idea of a climate change hoax makes no sense By Jess Zimmerman 27 Feb 2012 9:58 AM If you’re capable of critical thought , your first response when you hear about green nonprofits and climate scientists engaging in a vast worldwide conspiracy is probably not oh no but why in the world would they bother Hint : It’s not for the money Via Brooke Jarvis on Twitter here’s a graphical representation of why the opposite hypothesis kinda makes a lot more . sense Jess Zimmerman is the editor of Grist . List Also in Grist Please enable JavaScript to see recommended stories

  • SAVE

    Updated: 2012-02-27 13:09:20
    In October, Mark Begich (D-Co) and John Isakson (R-Ga) introduced the Sensible Accounting to Value Energy Act of 2011.  The act, which is currently in committee, would require underwriters to consider the cost of energy and fuel use in homes when underwriting a home mortgage.  Currently, the mortgage cost, interest and insurance are considered.  The act [...]

  • UPDATED *** This weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-02-24 23:05:54
    A court decision this week in Tompkins County sided with a town that banned natural gas hydrofracking through its zoning law. Hydrofrack opponents have hailed the the case,  in which the town of Dryden was sued by a Denver-based gas drilling company that claimed the state, not local towns, has the power to decide whether [...]

  • Bickmore on the WSJ response

    Updated: 2012-02-24 14:59:27
    Guest commentary from Barry Bickmore (repost) The Wall Street Journal posted yet another op-ed by 16 scientists and engineers, which even include a few climate scientists(!!!). Here is the editor’s note to explain the context. Editor’s Note: The authors of the following letter, listed below, are also the signatories of“No Need to Panic About Global [...]

  • Are We Giving Up Too Soon on Carbon Capture?

    Updated: 2012-02-24 01:41:13
    California could benefit from the controversial technology behind "clean coal." Continue reading →

  • More Fall Out from the Heartland Institute E-Mail Leak

    Updated: 2012-02-24 00:19:52
    The Guardian reports today that Jeremy Gleick, who admitted to leaking the Heartland Institute’s emails on Monday may lose his job as a result of his actions.  The San Francisco Chronicle dropped him as a columnist yesterday and earlier in the week he stepped down as Chair of the American Geophysical Union’s task force on scientific [...]

  • Clouds Gather for Scientist who Purloined Documents

    Updated: 2012-02-23 21:41:42
    Support from Pacific Institute's board, funders may be wavering. Continue reading →

  • Verizon Phone Books

    Updated: 2012-02-23 14:58:45
    A reader asked that we write about the wasteful delivery of Verizon Phone books, which often arrive in multiple copies at individual residences and go unused year after year.  Well, good news for those tired of receiving the phone books and the waste they create.  In October 2010 the Public Service Commission approved Verizon’s request [...]

  • What Comes Around…

    Updated: 2012-02-23 00:33:40
    I think everyone remembers when the private emails of Climate Scientists were leaked to the media in 2009 and again in 2011.  You also probably remember how various groups that do not believe in the science of climate change used those emails to engage in personal attacks against those individuals and create doubt about whether [...]

  • Credible Sources Agree: EPA’s Rules will have Modest Economic Impacts

    Updated: 2012-02-22 19:36:01
    We’ve posted so many stories like this that sometimes it’s hard to keep count, but yet another slew of reputable sources find EPA rules will not destroy the economy.  In fact, it may just be the boost it needs.  The Director of Regulatory Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute just wrote a piece that [...]

  • Landmark Environmental Court Battle on Horizon

    Updated: 2012-02-22 19:12:41
    On February 28th and 29th, the Federal Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. will hear oral arguments in challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark clean air measures to protect American's health and well-being from the clear and present danger of climate pollution. In one corner states like Texas and large industrial polluters are challenging [...]

  • Who Wrote the Fake Heartland Strategy Memo?

    Updated: 2012-02-22 01:25:07
    Certainly Peter Gleick is still in the running. But as I wrote in Forbes last week, the memo does not have the feel of having been written by a “player” like Gleick.  It feels like someone younger, someone more likely to take the cynical political knife-fighting statements of someone like Glieck (e.g. skeptics are anti-science) [...]

  • Energy Efficiency Financing Options for Commercial Real Estate

    Updated: 2012-02-22 00:07:34
    A recent report outlines an import development in the financing of energy efficiency in commercial real estate.  It shows the market is changing, albeit slowly.  The change is occurring, in part, as the result of standardized tools for measurement and verification of energy efficiency benefits and the emergence of insurance products to help defray the [...]

  • New York Times science blogger speaks at Union College

    Updated: 2012-02-21 21:25:24
    Andrew Revkin, science journalist and blogger for the New York Times, where he runs the popular blog Dot Earth, will be speaking Thursday at Union College in Schenectady. Revkin is part of the college’s ongoing Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering Winter Seminar Series. His talk, “Building a Knowosphere to Conserve Our Only Sphere” begins at [...]

  • Bay Area Scientist Owns up to Lying to Get Heartland Documents

    Updated: 2012-02-21 19:04:10
    The Pacific Institute's Peter Gleick says he used a fake name to obtain details on funding and strategy Continue reading →

  • Peter Gleick Admits to Stealing Heartland Documents

    Updated: 2012-02-21 06:46:33
    I have an updated article at Forbes.  A small excerpt In a written statement, Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute, and vocal advocate of catastrophic man-made global warming theory, has admitted to obtaining certain Heartland Institute internal documents under false premises, and then forwarding these documents to bloggers who were eager to publish them. Gleick (also [...]

  • North Sea Oil and Gas Just Won't Quit

    Updated: 2012-02-21 00:01:34
    For the full article go here. 

  • Study proclaims natural gas hydrofracking safe for groundwater

    Updated: 2012-02-17 22:24:58
    This study from the University of Texas on natural gas hydrofracking is being offered up by the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York State. IOGA Executive Director Brad Gill said, “Once again objective research has concluded that technology used to free gas from shale deposits is not a threat to fresh water aquifers. [...]

  • UPDATED *** This Weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-02-17 21:38:40
    A local environmental group is part of a coalition that believes federal nuclear safety regulators have ignored the lessons of last year’s nuclear reactor accident in Japan. Our guest this week on Capital Green Scene will be Barbara Warren, executive director of Citizens Environmental Coalition, who will talk about a petition filed this week with [...]

  • Heartland Documents: Whose Biases are Being Revealed Here?

    Updated: 2012-02-16 19:03:38
    I could not resist commenting on the brouhaha around the stolen Heartland Institute documents in my column at Forbes.  The key one that is the “smoking gun” now appears to be fake.  I wrote in part: One reason I am fairly certain the document is fake is this line from the supposed skeptic strategy document: His [...]

  • Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Published Today

    Updated: 2012-02-16 16:00:14
    It’s official! The historic Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants were published in the Federal Register. That means the official, final rule is now available to the public for the first time. It also means we’ve taken another crucial step towards putting these lifesaving standards into effect. Mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin that [...]

  • BREAKING: Activists Scale Coal Plant in Asheville, NC

    Updated: 2012-02-13 14:42:44
    UPDATE:  The 16 activists who pulled off 4 actions at the same plant have now left the site and been taken into custody. What an amazing job they did,  let’s all hope they are safe and well and get out of jail soon. Early this morning Greenpeace activists entered the coal-burning Asheville Power Station owned [...]

  • Free speech and academic freedom

    Updated: 2012-02-12 18:55:41
    Update: Some related concerns from deepclimate.org, if these claims can be verified. In a recent interview for a Norwegian magazine (Teknisk Ukeblad, 0412), the IPCC chair Rajendra Kumar Pachauri told the journalist that he had received death threats in connection with his role as a head for the IPCC. There have also been recent reports [...]

  • Greek Debt Crisis Exposes Green Subsidies Scam

    Updated: 2012-02-11 00:25:01
    My latest article published at Canada Free Press and here at  nergy Tribune. 

  • It’s Just Business (but FirstEnergy Blames Its Decisions on Clean Air Rules)

    Updated: 2012-02-10 19:32:08
    Twice in the last two weeks, FirstEnergy has announced it will shut down old coal-fired power plants – then tried to blame those business decisions on the clean air rules that protect us all from toxic pollution. First, at the end of January, First Energy announced it would retire six coal-fired power plants in Ohio, [...]

  • Overview of the Global Warming Debate

    Updated: 2012-02-09 15:54:41
    I know I have been dormant on this site of late (the perils of having a day job), but I have been thinking about and working for a while on a way to clearly portray the basic outlines of the global warming debate. I hope you will check it out in this article posted today [...]

  • 2011 Updates to model-data comparisons

    Updated: 2012-02-09 02:26:05
    And so it goes – another year, another annual data point. As has become a habit (2009, 2010), here is a brief overview and update of some of the most relevant model/data comparisons. We include the standard comparisons of surface temperatures, sea ice and ocean heat content to the AR4 and 1988 Hansen et al [...]

  • Global Temperatures, Volcanic Eruptions, and Trees that Didn’t Bark

    Updated: 2012-02-06 14:36:09
    My co-authors and I have just published an article in Nature Geoscience (advance online publication here; associated press release here) which seeks to explain certain enigmatic features of tree-ring reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperatures of the past millennium. Most notable is the virtual absence of cooling in the tree-ring reconstructions during what ice core [...]

  • Our Newest Clean Air Ally – Actress Julianne Moore

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:06:21
    Those of us following the debate over clean air regulations are used to hearing frequent comments from key players – power plant executives, politicians, environmentalists, doctors. But every once in a while, we get a truly original point of view.  Like today – in this animated video from actress Julianne Moore. Moore taped the video [...]

  • Revenge of the Climate Scientists: 38 Experts Set the WSJ Straight

    Updated: 2012-02-01 23:26:07
    Two days ago, I wrote about a flawed global warming analysis in the Wall Street Journal. The paper published an opinion piece, No Need to Panic About Global Warming, written by a small group of scientists and engineers who are global warming skeptics. Today, the other side was heard from. The Wall Street Journal published [...]

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