8-22-08 by dugan I was reading up today on research about turning pond scum into biodiesel. One promising thread is that algae can be fed the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants, multiplying…
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RSS feed for this sectionTracking the politics of pollution, climate change and emerging green technologies.
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Arnold’s big idea: Use less gas
8-19-08 by M.Reback Arnold’s big idea: Use less gas It seems the extent of Governor Schwarzenegger’s solution for Californians to help combat sky-high gas prices is… promoting more efficient use of gasoline. Gee thanks for…
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Google (energy) news
8-19-08 by dugan Las Vegas, NV –Amid a lot of familiar green rehetoric, Google made some real news today at the National Clean Energy Summit–which I should note is sponsored by Sen. Harry Reid of…
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Pickens: Charm isn’t enough
8-19-08 by dugan Las Vegas, NV — It’s no surprise that T. Boone Pickens gives essentially the same stump speech at every stop to pitch his "Pickens Plan", which is really a political effort. Pickens…
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Las Vegas, clean-style
8-19-08 by dugan Here in Vegas, the temperature outside is low 100s, but I can crank the hotel room down to 60 degrees–true energy-sucking extravagance. But the cabbies and doormen, when I ask how to…
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Guru of “drill here, drill now”
8-13-08 by dugan How did the "drill now, drill everywhere" gang persuade Americans that giving U.S. coastline and wilderness to oil companies is an energy policy? Credit goes to a brilliant deceiver who most people…
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Variety thumbs up to GasHole film
If you want to know the true story about why gasoline prices are $4.25 per gallon, check out the gripping new documentary GasHole when it comes to your movie theatre, hopefully this Fall. Two creative…
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Corn price drop matches oil’s
8-5-08 by dugan Remember all the assertions earlier this year that demand for ethanol was skyrocketing the price of corn and other farm commodities? Oh, and possibly starving the world. OilWatchdog kept arguing that energy…
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Murder in the U.S. Senate
7-30-08 by dugan The noise, hearings and promises in Congress about oil prices and energy relief are adding up to precisely zero result. Even the most modest, targeted bills are falling off the…
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Sandbox-style energy standoff
7-28-08 by dugan At first, the fight in the Senate over whether renewable energy tax credits should be extended for a few more years seemed like political Kabuki theater: Republican opponents in the Senate would…
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‘Hotrod’ defends ethanol’s MPG
7-15-08 by dugan I’ve long heard that a car with the engine correctly adjusted for ethanol can run as economically as a car running on gasoline. Yet AAA, which publishes daily gasoline and diesel prices…
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Engrave it on the fender
7-10-08 by dugan The state of California will require all 2009 and later cars to be labeled with their global warming scores, as well as the current air pollution/smog scores. The 1-10 best-to-worst scores will…
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Beware T. Boone Pickens
7-9-08 by dugan I woke up this morning and found out that oilman T. Boone Pickens may save the Earth–at least according to much of the MSM. Here’s USA Today on energy billionaire Pickens’…