Brady: The Anti-Green Nominee

E2 Morning Roundup: Power report highlights partisan energy divide
Waxman, Upton split on Grid study A study of Power Grid reliability has sparked the latest battle over Environmental Protection Agency regulations. A North American Electric Reliability Corp. report Tuesday warned that a quartet of planned rules could cut existing U.S. generation capacity by about 7 percent under a worst-case scenario, eating into the cushion needed to meet peak demand. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) who has the pole position to chair the powerful Energy and Commerce...

Meg Whitman
Long ago, Calbuzz suggested that Meg Whitman made a strategic blunder during the Republican Primary when, in an effort to look conservative enough to beat Steve Poizner, she came out swinging against AB 32 , Californias pioneering Greenhouse-gas reduction law. Our point was simple: she had alienated independent and moderate voters who tilt the balance of power in California because, for them, protecting the environment is an important cause. Whitman tried to soften her outspoken objections...

Where's Nancy?
Click Nancy ht.ginger » 9 Comments Horrorman18 October 27th, 2010 I think I saw her face in a jar of Beef Jerky 0   0     Mark October 27th, 2010 Why the fug would I want to see her? 1   0     Webonot October 27th, 2010 Damn! I can’t find her, but she must be in one of those 57 states. 0   0     jclady October 27th, 2010 Have you check the jar of pickled pig’s feet??? 0   0     Czar of Defenestration October...

Energy and Global Warming News for October 27th: Global warming harms CA state parks; Brazil's Amazon region suffers severe drought; Wind power could provide a fifth of world's electricity by 2030
Global Warming threaten CA State’s Parks Stunted redwoods, flooded campgrounds and a mighty Yosemite waterfall reduced to a trickle. Those are a few of the dire consequences facing 10 California Parks over the next century because of rapidly changing Climate patterns, according to a new study by an environmental Think Tank. “We’re trying to illustrate that the ways we affect the Climate affect the places we love,” said Stephen Saunders, a former deputy at the U.S. ...

Is Energy Efficiency Blue, Red or Both?
Recently I wrote about how people in six Kansas towns had been motivated to cut their Energy use through intertown competitions. The residents were largely skeptical about the science behind Climate Change but were moved to act by values like thrift and Patriotism. In some cases towns reduced their Energy Consumption by as much as 5 percent over a year, considered a giant drop in this field. So when the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy released its annual scorecard comparing...

Climate Protection
Read more... What can we do to protect the climate? In the future, Energy Efficiency

Real-World Steps on Energy and CO2
The ripples are still spreading from a recently released game plan for a “post-partisan” approach to expanding humanity’s Energy menu without Overheating the Climate. The plan, aimed at filling the Policy gap left by the death of a Carbon cap and trading system , focuses on stimulating innovation and diffusion of non-polluting Energy technology through direct investment and procurement policies. It was a joint product of Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution, The “...

TV standby buttons will be outlawed
THE Government is to outlaw standby switches on televisions and video and DVD players to cut the amount of electricity wasted in the home. Refrigerators, Washing Machines and Dishwashers will have to become Energy-efficient, and lightbulbs that burn too much Energy will be phased out. According to yesterday’s Energy Review, standby facilities use 8 per cent of all domestic electricity. Lighting, set-top boxes, televisions, chargers, fridges, freezers, Washing Machines and computers...

Climate Action, Part 3: Taking it to the Streets
This is the third in a multi-part series by William Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project . Several years ago, I organized a conference of 30 experts in sustainable development. Our purpose was to brainstorm about how to put sustainability back on Americas agenda. Among the participants were some of the old Soldiers of the Environmental Movement, among them former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart; Gus Speth, the recently retired dean of Environmental studies at Yale;...

Companies fight to keep global warming data secret
WASHINGTON – Some of the country's largest emitters of heat-trapping Gases, including businesses that publicly support efforts to curb Global Warming, don't want the public knowing exactly how much they pollute. Oil producers and refiners, along with manufacturers of steel, aluminum and even home appliances, are fighting a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency that would make the amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions that companies release — and the underlying data businesses...

Environment and Climate
  In 2008, Electrabel, number one producer in Belgium, launched a large sustainable development plan for reduction of Carbon Emissions. The company, which had already reduced its CO2 Emissions by 29% since 1990, is committed to another 1.7 million-ton reduction between now and 2015.  

Comment: China pressed to reveal numbers
Though China is still heavily reliant on polluting Power Plants such as this one in Shanghai, it is promising a 40-45 per cent reduction in the intensity of its Carbon Emissions by 2020 The Air Quality in Beijing was excellent on Tuesday, according to a Local Government website whose launch last year was hailed as a breakthrough in transparency. You have viewed your allowance of free articles. If you wish to view more, click the button below. Special Reports

Bronx Residents Demand a Greater, Greener, Fairer PlaNYC
The Bronx wants to see the next version PlaNYC go further and be more equitable than the original. At last night’s public outreach event for the upcoming revision of the city’s sustainability agenda, dubbed a “Community Conversation,” Bronx residents demanded that PlaNYC 2.0 be far bolder in its efforts to green the city — and especially their environmentally disadvantaged borough. Whether by tearing down the Sheridan Expressway , tackling truck traffic, or...

Chinese firms blamed in huge greenhouse gas scam
Brussels: The European Commission is planning to clamp down on a €2 Billion ($2.8 Billion) Carbon trading scam involving the deliberate production of Greenhouse Gases which the fraudulent manufacturers are then paid to destroy. The Climate Change Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, says the use of these Carbon permits, from industrial gas projects in China, could be banned because of their ''total lack of environmental integrity''. Billions of euros worth of the Controversial permits were...

EERE News: Wind Power Could Provide a Fifth of World's Electricity by 2030: Study
A new study by the Global Wind Energy Council and Greenpeace International reports that Wind could meet 12% of global power demand by 2020, and up to 22% by 2030. The "Global Wind Energy Outlook 2010" (GWEO 2010), announced October 12, finds that Wind power could play a key role in meeting the world's increasing power demand while also achieving major Greenhouse Gas Emissions reductions. The 1,000 gigawatts (GW) of Wind power capacity projected to be installed by 2020 would preclude the emission...

Global Boiling: Continental ‘Weather Bomb’ Hits Midwest With Power Of Cat Three Hurricane
Global Boiling: Continental ‘Weather Bomb’ Hits Midwest With Power Of Cat Three Hurricane Fueled by Fossil Fuel Pollution, an unprecedented, freak “land Hurricane” swept through the continental United States, leaving a path of devastation from Saskatchewan to Texas — while the Republican Party has been taken over by a Hurricane of science denial. Our destabilized Climate system, supercharged with Billions of tons of manmade Global Warming Pollution, is unlike...

The Mighty Talons of the Climate Hawks
I don’t really have much to say about it, but I’ve spent the past few days being taken in by Dave Roberts’ effort to popularize the concept of “climate hawks” so I thought I should do my part. What’s a Climate hawk? Well of course much like a Deficit hawk or a National Security hawk or an Inflation hawk, a Climate hawk is tough-minded and awesome and entitled to worshipful media coverage. We’re very serious people who want to confront the major...

Maybe We Don't Have the Technology
[UPDATE: Thoughtful perspectives on India, energy and Carbon at the blogs of Bryan Walsh and Michael Levi .] In 2007, the IPCC concluded, implausibly, that the world presently has, or soon will have, technologies needed to achieve aggressive Emissions reduction targets.  This conclusion was often repeated by its chairman Rajendra Pachauri, such as in this 2008 interview with the IAEA (pdf) : We have established very clearly that all the technologies that are required for stringent...

Masters: "Strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest smashes all-time pressure records" - 'Weather bomb' hits Midwest with power of major hurricane
My dad was the biggest Republican that ever walked the earth. He always said: Actions have consequences . To pretend that a 38% increase in Greenhouse Gases isnt going to have any impact, that we can have our cake and eat it too, and smear it all over our face , and maybe have our Grandchildren deal with the hangover, I think it is immoral . That’s Minnesota Meteorologist Paul Douglas in an exclusive interview with Brad Johnson about the “weather bomb” that...

The gridlock myth?
Michael Barone, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of American politics, writes : The evidence suggests that partisan polarization in the absence of supermajorities does not cause gridlock.  What can and has caused it on so many important Domestic Policy issues has been electoral Volatility.  From the TARP example to a raft of others, it is clear that as long as enough congressional members with safe seats are prepared to hammer out deals across party and ideological lines,...

Congressional Fleecing the Public Legislation
The bill's text says: (1) "The current Tax structure creates economic distortions that limit growth and Job Creation." (2) Complying takes five Billion hours and about $200 Billion. (3) Tax code restructuring will promote economic prosperity. (4) Replacing the federal Income Tax with a transactions fee will eliminate systemic inefficiency. The bill aims to raise enough revenue in seven years to begin phasing out the Personal Income Tax, a goal helping big earners more than lesser ones, and...

DuPont's 3Q profit declines but beats Wall Street's view; lifts full-year earnings outlook
WILMINGTON, DEL. — Chemical maker DuPont's Third-quarter net income fell as Patents expired in its pharmaceuticals division, but results topped Wall Street's expectations. The company also boosted its full-year adjusted earnings guidance above analysts' views on Tuesday, citing its quarterly performance and expectations for continued demand in certain Markets. DuPont has benefited from the improving Global Economy, particularly in areas such as the Asia Pacific region. The company makes...

Clinton stumps for Jerry Brown
reporting from San Jose Appearing before thousands of people at a San Jose rally Sunday, former President Clinton brought the contest for California Governor to Republican Meg Whitman's doorstep, imploring Democrats to turn out the vote and elect his onetime presidential rival, Jerry Brown, to the state's highest office. Clinton recalled Brown's terms as Governor, Oakland mayor and Attorney General, praising him for passing the country's first Energy Efficiency standards for appliances and...

PRESS RELEASE
The study identifies Energy Efficiency as the single most important option for achieving significant and long-term reductions in GHG emissions, Accounting for up to 50 percent of the reduction potential across the wide range of scenarios analyzed. However, investment in Energy Efficiency R&D has typically been less than 10 percent of the overall Public Sector R&D Budget in the countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Conversely, although Nuclear Energy accounts for less...

Hundreds of New Green Jobs Sail into Philadelphia Navy Yard
The Philadelphia Navy Yard is going full speed ahead with its transformation from urban toxic eyesore to a hub for new Green Jobs and Clean Energy innovation . The latest step in particular reveals the power of Clean Energy to create new Jobs, even to the extent of pulling new Jobs into the U.S. from overseas companies: Mark Group , one of Europe’s biggest home Energy Efficiency companies, is making a new home at the Navy Yard and expects to hire more than 300 workers. Brown Fields and...