$10.5 Trillion by 2030: the Number that Should be at the Heart of Copenhagen Climate Talks

9 Dec, 2009 02:08 pm Forget 80% by 2050 and 17% by 2020. Time to stop fixating on 450 ppm vs 350 ppm. As UN climate talks kick off today in Copenhagen, Denmark,...

Energy Efficiency: How NOT To Do It

13 Oct, 2009 03:31 pm On October 5, First Energy (NYSE: FE) announced a planned energy efficiency program, involving the delivery of two compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs)...

Crossing Borders in European Gas Networks

10 Oct, 2009 04:36 pm Demand for gas is on the rise in Europe, yet its indigenous production is in decline. The need for imports from remote sources will grow...

EU Set To Enter Clean Energy Race with $73 billion for R&D

8 Oct, 2009 08:32 am Europe is planning to stage a grand entrance into the clean energy race by investing approximately $73 billion in clean energy research,...

Over-Allocation of Pollution Permits Would Result in No Emissions Reduction Requirement in Early Years of Climate Program

28 Sep, 2009 08:10 am The large decline in U.S. emissions in 2008 and 2009 due to the economic recession means that if the House-passed Waxman-Markey climate legislation becomes...

Offshore Wind: Europe Now, U.S. When?

22 Sep, 2009 06:21 pm Last week, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) held their 2009 offshore event in Stockholm, where 4,750 attendees (up from about 2,...

Averting 22 Water-Electricity Crises in the United States

27 Jul, 2009 09:29 pm Conventional power plants could create severe water shortages in 22 metropolitan areas by 2025.

Report Details Sharp Drop in U.S. Power Plant Emissions

17 Jul, 2009 02:55 pm A report released last week by Energy data provider Genscape (and reported by Reuters) says that between January and June of this year, U.S...

Tariffs in the Climate Bill

30 Jun, 2009 11:18 pm A number of people have written to ask why I haven't commented on the climate bill. There are two reasons. First, the House and Senate versions are very...

EPA To Begin Regulating New Coal-Fired Plant Carbon Emissions

24 Feb, 2009 07:36 pm The Environmental Protection Agency has made a start with the active regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from newly built coal-fired power plants...

Obama Stimulus: For Clean Energy, a Patchwork of Investments

22 Jan, 2009 09:32 pm Last week, Obama rolled out a stimulus plan that only spends $825 billion to make up for this gap in production. A summary of the American Recovery and...

A New Chapter on Climate Change

21 Nov, 2008 11:30 am President-elect Obama recorded a message for the Global Climate Summit, promising "a new chapter of American leadership on climate change."

Can Cap and Dividend Really Save the Economy or the Planet?

21 Oct, 2008 06:20 pm A clean energy economic stimulus plan could truly be climate advocates' "Trojan horse," as columnist Eric Pooley writes. But NOT if they follow Pooley's...

The Solar Stage is Set

6 Oct, 2008 01:41 pm have been pretty disgusted by this whole $700 billion bailout. I felt like we let a lot of people get away with some very bad behavior; behavior that enriched...

A Pivotal Moment

12 Sep, 2008 12:14 pm With Americans focused on energy prices as never before, a game-changing shift is occurring in the American political climate...

Our New Sputnik Moment

13 Aug, 2008 07:01 pm Jesse Jenkins and I published two op-eds recently, one in the San Francisco Chronicle and one in the Baltimore Sun, outlining a proposal for a National...

Energy Delayers, Get Out Of The Way: A New American Energy Future Awaits

2 Jul, 2008 07:36 pm Just as the time becomes ripe for a major push towards clean, cheap sources of electricity, the Bureau of Land Management threw a two-year stumbling block...

What Do We Want? Cheap, Abundant Solar! When Do We Want It? Now!

1 Jul, 2008 09:15 am The solar industry is booming, ramping up production capacity and driving costs down steadily towards the mythical "Grid Parity" point - the price point...

The Costs of Major Energy Accidents, 1907 to 2007

29 Apr, 2008 12:11 pm Conventional energy technologies-- namely nuclear, coal, oil, gas, and hydroelectric power generators-- may kill more people than you think.

Is the Danish Renewable Energy Model Replicable?

20 Mar, 2008 10:51 am Energy policymakers wishing to promote clean energy would do well to replicate Denmark?s approach to electricity regulation.

Oil Independence Possible for U.S. by 2030

26 Oct, 2007 11:49 am Oil independence is possible for the U.S. if comprehensive and aggressive energy policies are implemented aimed at reducing demand for oil,...

The European Commission has released its Climate Change Strategy -Is It A Good Plan?

11 Jan, 2007 04:19 pm The European Commission has issued a Climate Change Strategy which focuses on controls on the emissions of carbon dioxide to limit the human intervention...