Homebuilding needs to join the 21st century and apply the best, efficient technologies to lower costs and reduce energy and resource consumption.
There's much to love about carbon capture, in theory. But carbon capture continues our dependence on coal-fired power plants, and does little to change the status quo.
Although the U.S. Chamber supports comprehensive legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we believe that the American Clean Energy and Security Act is fundamentally flawed.
The belief that a price signal on fuel purchases alone will fix our energy sector is simply unfounded. We need a strategic combination of technology, policy, and pricing to solve our energy dilemma and start curbing the climate crisis.
Biden confessed that the Obama administration "misread" the depth of economic troubles it inherited and in doing so, displayed a chilling lack of understanding of the economic landscape.
Sovereign Immunity has its roots in old English law postulating that neither the sovereign nor the sovereign state can commit a legal wrong. It is an anachronism of another time and poses a great danger to our security.
A new global effort that aims to make renewable energy more accessible to every country in the world launched on July 1st.
Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America? Well, have you ever heard of MTR?
Negative reactions to the proposed cap and trade system were voiced by Chevron CEO David O'Reilly and by former Secretary of State George Schultz.
The "curse of oil," which says that national per capita income often goes down after oil is discovered in a nation, is well documented in cases around the globe.
For the last 18 months, I've patiently waited for our local alternative energy company to bring their wind turbine product to market. While they work on perfecting their technology, I've decided to move ahead with a 10 kilowatt Bergey wind turbine.
Without a clear provision and mandate for natural gas, the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" will be a failed bill, and if not, certainly something far less than it could have been.
Knowing that he didn't have the votes to stop the clean energy jobs bill, Republican Minority leader John Boehner instead turned to a tactic familiar those who want stand in the way of progress -- delay.
Lily Riahi speaks with Hans Jørgen Koch about why we need the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) especially given the existence of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
David Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defense Council makes a convincing case linking jobs, inflation, and the savings rate to smart environmental practices.
The American Clean Energy and Security Act establishes a market-based cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide.
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
The bill doesn't go far enough to spark the transition to a clean energy economy we need to avert catastrophic climate change. It does not meet the science. It does not meet Obama's promises.
Opponents of the Waxman-Markey bill maintain that raising fuel and utility prices at all is an assault on the poor.
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