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John Sununu: We don’t need no stinkin’ energy policy
History suggests he’s wrong. Republican John E. Sununu represented New Hampshire in both the U.S. House and Senate before being defeated in his re-election bid for senator in 2008. His tenure in...
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Climate Change Mitigation: Caught Between a Wedge and a Hard Place
New study concludes that addressing climate change will require “fundamental and disruptive transformation of the global energy system.” Wedges 101 Since the publication in 2004 of the watershed paper...
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In State of the Union Speech Obama Straddles the Climate-Energy Fence
Crossposted with National Geographic’sGreat Energy Challenge blog Can we lower carbon emissions and also push more and more oil and gas production? The environmental community got a shot in the arm...
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Old Wang Coal?
Is China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal, a promising market for U.S. coal exports? China is big and is thus superlative in many ways. It’s got the highest population and the biggest...
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Congress’s Affair With Ethanol: Love Gone Wrong?
Crossposted with National Geographic’sGreat Energy Challenge blog The ethanol mandate in gasoline is starting to sting. Trouble Brewing In a news article published in Science magazine last week,...
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Electric Power Conundrum at the Crossroads of Energy, Climate and Water
Crossposted with National Geographic’s Great Energy Challenge blog Which is more important: Meeting energy demand, lowering carbon emissions, or conserving water? How about all three? The Three Big...
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Biofuels and Climate Change: Pulpwood to the Rescue?
Post corrected November 21, 2013, 10:51 a.m. New study concludes that biofuels can be part of climate-energy solution. The debate has been raging for years. Can biofuels, fuels derived from recently...
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Obama’s Climate Legacy May Come Down to Coal and ‘No’
The Obama administration gave environmentalists little to cheer about last week, but the game is hardly over. When it comes to climate change, Obama’s rhetoric has been striking and unequivocal (for...
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Following the Money: Energy Dollars Hard at Work on Capitol Hill
Is the alternative energy industry losing the influence-peddling war to fossil fuels? Perhaps you caught the editorial in Sunday’s New York Times taking “the Koch Brothers and their conservative...
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Obama’s New Carbon Rules: What Price Regulation?
Can good economic times roll while carbon emissions decline? Maybe so. It’s just a three-year span, but from 2010 to 2012, U.S. CO2 emissions declined while both gross domestic product and the number...
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