1Expand
Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU | Environment | The Guardian
A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun. Dwarfed by any of the north African nations, it represents an area slightly smaller than Wales but scientists claimed yesterday it could one day generate enough solar energy to supply all of Europe with clean electricity.
more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
Think Progress » Bush Cronies Tried To Redefine ‘Carbon Dioxide’ To Save Power Plants From Emissions Regulations
Earlier this month, former EPA official Jason Burnett wrote to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) with explosive revelations on how the White House has neutered climate change science to protect corporate interests. For example, OMB general counsel Jeffrey Rosen asked for multiple memos on whether carbon dioxide (CO2) from cars and plants could be regulated differently.
more fromthinkprogress.org
US Senator Barbara Boxer reveals details of a climate change document that the White House is refusing to make public | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The row over US inaction on carbon emissions reached new heights yesterday after the White House allowed Congress to look at last year's government proposal to officially deem climate change a threat to public health – a plan that aides to George Bush refused to acknowledge or read. The climate plan was finished in December by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a supreme court ruling that required the Bush administration to state whether carbon emissions should be regulated to protect public health.
more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
BBC NEWS | Business | Arctic 'has 90bn barrels of oil'
The Arctic is estimated to hold 90bn barrels of untapped oil, according to figures from the US Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS says the area has three times as much untapped natural gas as oil.
more fromnews.bbc.co.uk
DailyTech - Energy Efficient LCD Competitor Invented at Microsoft
For a number of years now, the LCD display has all but made the older CRT displays extinct. While LCD screens are still being improved on by making them thinner, brighter, and produce better image quality, researchers are always on the lookout for the next technology breakthrough.
more fromwww.dailytech.com
1Expand
DailyTech - EU Officials: Just 0.3% Of Sahara's Sun Energy Could Power Entire EU
The largest fully industrialized populus in the world could be entirely powered by a small fraction of solar desert energy, according to new plan The U.S. has some big plans for solar, both with building new power plants and through businesses and consumers adding solar panels to rooftops and unused land. However, no U.S. solar effort thus far compares to the ambitious plan that European Union (EU) officials are considering.
more fromwww.dailytech.com
Newsvine - Effort to curb oil speculation stalls in Senate
Senate Democrats failed Friday to advance a measure to rein in oil market speculators, one of a series of efforts to tell voters they are serious about addressing $4-a-gallon gasoline, and they
more fromwww.newsvine.com
Newsvine - GOP Kills Effort To Release Oil From U.S. Stockpile...is it really that simple?
House Republicans yesterday scuttled a bill that Democrats had hoped would help lower gasoline prices by forcing the Energy Department to release 70 million barrels of oil--about a three-day supply--from the national stockpile. Democrats promised that the action would have produced immediate relief at the pump, as was the case with similar releases in '91, 2000 and '05. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve now holds about 700 million barrels. Despite winning a clear 268-157 majority, the measure still lost. Democratic leaders had brought the proposal up for debate under rules requiring two-thirds vote to pass. But passing the bill by just a majority would have meant allowing Republicans to force a vote on new offshore drilling leases.
more fromlasong.newsvine.com
Netcentric Campaigns | Advocacy 2.0 for the Age of Connectivity
more fromwww.netcentriccampaigns.org
Debbie Cook: Taking Al Gore's Challenge: A 10-Point Plan to Repower America
Last week, Vice President Al Gore presented the American people with a challenge: meet 100% of our electricity needs through renewable energy within 10 years. Al would be the first to acknowledge this is not a minor task. And yet it is an urgent one, a challenge that will require a transformation in how we invest our time and money, and how we view ourselves.
more fromwww.huffingtonpost.com
Wasting Away - The Center for Public Integrity
Toxic waste still plagues American communities 27 years after the U.S. government set up a program to identify and clean up the country’s worst sites. A one-year investigation by the Center for Public Integrity reveals the beleaguered state of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund effort, uncovers the companies and government agencies linked to the most sites and tracks progress of the clean up.
more fromprojects.publicintegrity.org
unfluence
Mapping political contribution networks Online mapping of political contributions database
more fromunfluence.primate.net
Well Connected - The Center for Public Integrity
Technology has created a chessboard of corporate and government interests in telecommunications and media. The players battle it out in Congress, at the Federal Communications Commission and in state houses. The "Well Connected" Project tracks this inside influence game.
more fromprojects.publicintegrity.org
CounterPunch: New Nukes Not Ready for Prime Time
A devastating blow to the much-hyped revival of atomic power has been delivered by an unlikely source---the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC says the "standardized" designs on which the entire premise of returning nuclear power to center stage is based have massive holes in them, and may not be ready for approval for years to come.
more fromwww.counterpunch.org
Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment|… = Clipping [?] | … = Public highlight [?]
Recent Tags (50)
- 4climatechange,
- 6co,
- 10compensation,
- 12contamination,
- 5corporate,
- 6development,
- 11doe,
- 4ecology,
- 3economics,
- 53energy,
- 18energy.news,
- 8europe,
- 2fallout,
- 5france,
- 13fuel-cycle,
- 2ga,
- 2ge,
- 2hatch,
- 6health,
- 4india,
- 3limerick,
- 5mining,
- 4n-waste,
- 13n-weapons,
- 2navajo,
- 9nrc,
- 51nuclear,
- 6nuke.comments,
- 7nuke.events,
- 44nuke.news,
- 16nuke.news.int,
- 6oil,
- 8online,
- 3pa,
- 4policy,
- 6reactor,
- 4reactors,
- 8resources,
- 5russia,
- 11safety,
- 2scandal,
- 3security,
- 3uk,
- 6uranium,
- 8us,
- 3ut,
- 3video,
- 11web2.0,
- 12workers,
- 5zounds!