2013-14 Indiana House Utilities and Energy Committee Members Announced; 3 Newly Elected House Members Named
Updated: 2012-11-30 18:42:48
Dear IndianaDG Readers: Please find below the much awaited information about the House Utilities and Energy Committee of the Indiana House of Representatives. Rumors have been pervasive that Rep. Eric Koch (R-Bedford) would replace Rep. Jack Lutz (R-Anderson). Turns out the rumor was true. All state legislators are not created equal. What I mean by [...]
Bloomberg: Middle Eastern companies lag behind those in the rest of the world in reporting carbon-dioxide emissions. They mirror governments in a region that for the first time is hosting global talks to limit climate change. Five of 2,199 publicly traded companies in the Middle East reported their CO2 output last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Those that did report, which included National Bank of Oman SAOG (NBOB) and Strauss Group Ltd. (STRS) of Israel, were 0.2 percent of the total. That...
Guardian: Fresh water is crucial to human society – not just for drinking, but also for farming, washing and many other activities. It is expected to become increasingly scarce in the future, and this is partly due to climate change.
Understanding the problem of fresh water scarcity begins by considering the distribution of water on the planet. Approximately 98% of our water is salty and only 2% is fresh. Of that 2%, almost 70% is snow and ice, 30% is groundwater, less than 0.5% is surface water (lakes,...
Al Jazeera: Is the World Bank turning up the heat? - Inside Story Americas - Al Jazeera English News Programmes Video Blogs Opinion In Depth Business Sport Weather Watch Live Africa Americas Asia-Pacific Central & South Asia Europe Middle East Inside Story Witness Listening Post People & Power 101 East The Stream More Focus Features In Pictures Interactive Spotlight Briefings Your Views Counting the Cost News Inside Story Americas Is the World Bank turning up the heat?
Bank warns...
Houston Chronicle: Two environmental activists were arrested Thursday after locking themselves to oil tanker trucks near the Houston Ship Channel, organizers said. The protesters were acting in coordination with the Tar Sands Blockade group that has staged a series of demonstrations throughout Texas to inspire opposition to TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, which is currently under construction. The controversial pipeline would stretch from Canada to the Gulf Coast and bring 700,000 barrels of oil to Gulf Coast...
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New York Times: Should Susan E. Rice, the United Nations ambassador, be nominated for Secretary of State, one issue likely to arise during confirmation hearings, aside from the lethal attack on the American Mission in Benghazi, Libya, is her large stock holdings in TransCanada, the company seeking an American permit to build the proposed the Keystone XL pipeline.
According to financial disclosure documents filed in May, Ms. Rice owns from $300,000 to $600,000 worth of stock in the Canadian pipeline company (See...
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Dear IndianaDG Readers: Three Indiana state legislators are prominent members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as follows: Indiana State Rep. Dave Frizzell (R-Indianapolis) is currently serving as the 2012 ALEC National Chairman; Indiana State Sen. Jim Buck (R-Kokomo) is currently serving on the ALEC Board of Directors; and Indiana State Rep. Dave Wolkins (R-Winnona [...]
A number of towns around the country have put their bid in for "capital" of particular renewable energy technologies: Rock Port, Missouri, for instance, is completely powered by wind, and Reynolds, Indiana was shooting for the title of Biotown USA. Solar's still competitive on this front, but, today, Riverside, California tossed its hat in the ring for the title of America's Solar City.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 28th, 2012 Contact: Megan Anderson, 812-325-0685, megan.anderson@sierraclub.org Pastor Wyatt Watkins, 317-750-5873, watkinsdt@aol.com Kerwin Olson, 317-702-0461, kolson@citact.org Indianapolis Beyond Coal Campaign Launch Event Indianapolis, IN – Today (11/28/2012) dozens of concerned ratepayers and community members gathered at Monument Circle to mark the launch of the Sierra Club’s Indianapolis Beyond Coal Campaign by delivering a growing list of 2,000 petitions [...]
Grist: The installed cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power continues its precipitous decline, mostly due to falling prices for PV panels. Pushing solar forward in coming years will involve driving down the other costs - the non-panel costs.
Those are a couple of the insights to be found in the fifth annual report on solar PV [PDF] from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), which digs into "project-level data for more than 150,000 individual residential, commercial, and utility-scale PV systems,...
Mongabay: Environmental damage poses a long-ignored risk to sovereign bonds, according to a new report by the UNEP FI (The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative) and the Global Footprint Network. The report, E-RISC Report, A New Angle on Sovereign Credit Risk, finds that the overuse of natural resources and their degradation has put considerable, and largely unrecognized, risk against national economies.
"We see some simple similarities with the current credit debt crisis where we borrowed...
Grist: Before we get on with the business of reimagination, though, we have to pause for some clarification on the matter of energy.
The first response many of us have to the climate crisis is simple: We need cleaner energy. This is not illogical. Most of the emissions warming the Earth come from burning dirty fossil fuels. So, we think, replacing those dirty power sources with clean energy sources should solve the problem. When we first ponder the challenge of making carbon zero cities, most of us fly...
Guardian: Forests play an important an important role in climate change. The destruction and degradation of forests contributes to the problem through the release of CO2. But the planting of new forests can help mitigate against climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Combined with the sun's energy, the captured carbon is converted into trunks, branches, roots and leaves via the process of photosynthesis. It is stored in this "biomass" until being returned back into the atmosphere, whether through...
Guardian: Billions of pounds of investment in renewable energy is waiting to flow into the UK energy sector. Will the energy bill, published on Thursday, unlock it?
Vestas is the world's leading manufacturer of wind turbines. We know what is needed to drive investment and what stymies it. Political consensus matters.
Investors were beginning to seriously doubt the government's willingness and ability to deliver a workable energy policy for the UK. Last week's disclosure of details in the bill demonstrated...
Associated Press: An environmental group says power generation from Maine wind farms is eliminating more than 400,000 metric tons of carbon pollution a year.
Environment Maine on Wednesday released a report that analyzes data from the U.S. Department of Energy and the wind industry to measure the environmental benefits from wind turbines operating in Maine.
The report says the turbines reduce carbon dioxide output by 403,000 metric tons a year, equivalent to the pollution from 79,000 vehicles. It further says...
On this week's Hangin' with sustainablog Hangout on Air at Google+, we'll be discussing cool green crowdfunding projects... whether they're ours, a friend or colleague's, or just something we cam across and liked. Several creators of current projects will join us, as well as members of the Important Media team.
EcoWatch: As superstorm Sandy and its aftermath prompt more Americans to call for action tackling global warming, Environment America released a new report today showing how current power generation from wind energy prevents as much global warming pollution as taking 13 million cars off the road each year.
With the fiscal cliff and the expiration of key tax credits for wind power quickly approaching, Environment America is urging Congress to extend critical federal incentives for wind power--the renewable...
EcoWatch: Today as part of Obama’s “All of the Above” energy strategy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold an oil and gas lease sale that will make more than 20 million offshore acres available to oil and gas drilling in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.
At the UN climate talks in Doha, the U.S. is claiming credit for “enormous” efforts on climate change.
Jonathan Pershing, a senior negotiator for the U.S., said: “Those who don’t know what the U.S. is doing may not be informed of...
What does corporate sustainability actually mean? A company gives lots of money to charity? Follows rules and regulations? Or something else? Roger Ballantine of Green Strategies, Inc., wrestles with these questions.
Bloomberg: China said it’s “very crucial” for developed nations to provide a roadmap sketching out how they’ll reach a target of providing $100 billion a year in aid for climate projects, the nation’s envoy at UN talks said.
Su Wei, who represents China at United Nations climate talks, said finance is “very important” to the success of the meeting in Doha.
“It is an obligation for developed countries under the convention to provide adequate resources in order that developing countries” can adapt to climate...
John Hofmeister outlines his ideas for what would constitute a sound plan of attack on climate change.
Dear IndianaDG Readers: In my email this morning I received Mitch’s Final Christmas Book List. You might be interested in seeing the complete Christmas Book List but I am primarily concerned again with only the book on energy on his book list. Last year Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels put another book on his recommended Christmas Book List. It was [...]
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For those living in the UK, did you feel the earth move at 3pm on 6 November? No? Or maybe a slight sweet smell of success on the breeze? Well despite the UK coalition Government’s appearance of blowing hot and cold on windpower beyond 2020, the facts are that a new record for the maximum output [...]
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Is there going to be a limit to how large wind turbines are going to get? Or will there come a point where despite the lightness of the material used for the blades, and the efficiency of the gearbox, the law of diminishing returns sets in, and it becomes too expensive to manufacture, transport to [...]
: Friday , November 16, 2012 Renewable Energy Law News Week of November 12 Fate of wind energy production tax credit in hands of Obama , House GOP , officals say The fate of a tax credit that advocates say is needed to maintain tens of thousands of wind energy jobs will be decided during high-stakes , last-minute negotiations between President Obama and House Republicans over fiscal issues , officials said . Tuesday The wind energy production tax credit is due to expire at the end of the year . Its extension stalled in Congress this summer amid fierce opposition from some conservative House Republicans . The last chance to extend the measure is in the budget deal that will be cut between Obama and Republicans in the lame duck session of . Congress Backers of the credit tried to ramp up
Conservative UK Member of Parliament, Chris Heaton-Harris, was exposed as two-faced this week when he was secretly filmed undercover footage revealed significant differences between his public and private criticisms of wind power. You may recall that Heaton-Harris was the organiser of the letter signed by 101 Conservative MPs urging the Prime Minister to end onshore wind [...]
Net metering is a common distributed renewable energy policy in the United States, allowing individuals to “turn back” their meter (and reduce their electric bill) by generating on-site electricity. But utility accounting systems typically prevent people from sharing the output from a single, common "community" solar or wind project. Virtual (or g
John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil and currently the head of Citizens for Affordable Energy, discusses the events responsible for the explosion in the price of oil over the past decade.
“London Pride”, the London Array offshore wind farm, situated just off the Kent coastline, South East England, has begun operations, albeit at a modest level. The first one of 175 wind turbines has begun generating energy and supplying it to the UK national grid. Richard Rigg, London Array Project Director, noted the most recent milestone [...]
Sol Systems co-sponsored and spoke at Novogradac’s Financing Renewable Energy Conference this week in Washington, DC. On Thursday, Sol Systems’ CEO Yuri Horwitz joined other renewable energy finance experts on the Tax Equity Opportunities panel. Moderated by Eli Katz (Chadbourne & Park LLP), the panel also featured Mit Buchanan (JP Morgan Capital Corporation), Ann Hardy [...]
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