Last month, with Washington mired in the debt ceiling battle and facing a potential default, public disapproval of Congress reached a record 82 percent.
Read moreLast week, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared that he would “crush” citizen groups who oppose large-scale renewable energy projects. Well, governor, here’s some advice: you’d better pack a lunch.
Read moreThree years ago this month, T. Boone Pickens launched a multi-million dollar crusade to bring more wind energy to the US. “Building new wind generation facilities,” along with energy efficiency and more consumption of domestic natural gas, the Dallas billionaire claimed, would allow the US to “replace more than one-third of our foreign oil imports in 10 years.”
Read moreGiven the parlous state of the US economy, discussions about climate change, carbon dioxide emissions, and cap-and-trade schemes have largely disappeared from the political discussion.
Read moreFacts are pesky things. And they’re particularly pesky when it comes to the myths about the wind energy business.
Read moreThe shale-gas (and shale-oil) revolution is the single most important development in the North American energy sector since the discovery of the East Texas Field in 1930.
Read moreIn December, another alphabet soup congregation on climate change will meet in Durban, South Africa to discuss efforts to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions.
Read moreIn the recent history of overpaid American corporate executives, there are two distinct classes: Aubrey McClendon and everybody else.
Read moreBack in January, during his State of the Union speech, President Obama said that he wanted the U.S. to “become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles n the road,” and he wanted it to happen by 2015. Given current sales of the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, the president may hit his target . . . sometime in 2064.
Read moreExxonMobil’s Rex Tillerson, 59, and General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt, 55, are about the same age. They both head iconic U.S. companies.
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