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It's Electric: US Emissions Drop Further

Dennis Markatos | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind, Oil, Efficiency, Solar, Electricity, Carbon Emissions, Coal, Natural Gas, Stimulus Package, Green News
Dennis Markatos

A focus on green jobs in the stimulus package can keep emissions on a downward trajectory throughout the next several years and provide ancillary benefits.

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Energy Lessons for Europe and the U.S. from the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo

Charles D. Ferguson | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

Read More: Coal Plants, Russia, Council on Foreign Relations, Central Europe, Gasoline Prices, Conservation, Cars, Obama Administration, Coal, Eu, Cheap Gas Prices, Oil Embargo, Solar Energy, Electricity, Oil Price, Washington, Arab Oil Embargo, Israel, Yom Kippur War, Natural Gas, Eu Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cfr, Opec, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Wind, Russian Gas Dependence, Ukraine, Suvs, Energy Efficiency, Eastern Europe, Increase, Geothermal, United States, Heat Oil, Carbon Dioxide, International Energy Agency, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Renewable Sources of Energy, World News
Charles D. Ferguson

While feeling angry is justified in a crisis, the governments would be best advised not to get mad at Russia but to get more secure in energy supplies and smarter in energy usage.

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For the Pickens Plan to Work, People Have to Misunderstand It

Josh Nelson | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, T. Boone Pickens, Energy Policy, Wind, Transportation, Energy Play, Solar, Pickens Plan, Natural Gas, Oil, Foreign Oil, Global Warming, Natural Gas Vehicles, Climate Change, Alternative Energy, Sustainability, Green News
Josh Nelson

Nobody who knows what they are talking about really thinks it makes much sense to replace our dependence on one dirty fossil fuel with another.

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Native America and Green Jobs: Spring Wind Rising from Sand Creek

Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Environment, Green Jobs, Winona LaDuke, Indian Reservations, Wind, Department of Interior, Native Americans, Fossil Fuels, Solar, Department of Energy, Green Recovery, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Recognizing that poverty rates on reservations are twice the national average, Native groups called for support to "operate a new crop of renewable electricity generating infrastructure."

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Obama, Arnold, And The Renewed Climate Change Fight

William Bradley | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Steve Westly, Solar, Tony Blair, United Nations, Wind, Renewable Energy, Copenhagen, European Union, Kyoto, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John MCain, Brazil, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Greenhouse Effect, California, John White, Indonesia, Mike Huckabee, Climate Change, Jerry Brown, Obama Transition, San Francisco, Hillary Clinton, Fran Pavley, Fabian Nunez, Oregon, Politics News
William Bradley

Despite many rumors, don't look for Schwarzenegger in the Obama administration, at least not now, though candidate Obama mentioned him several times as someone he'd like to appoint.

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Transition Topic II: Energy Independence

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Solar, Geothermal, Energy Dependence, Environment, Oil, Drilling, Renewable Energy, Wind, Obama Energy Policy, Obama Transition, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Schweitzer

All the elements embedded in Obama's energy program make good sense, and deserve our enthusiastic support. But wind, solar and geothermal energy are not the ultimate endpoint.

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A New Silicon Valley on the Oklahoma Prairie?

Al Eisele | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Carbon, Wind, Green Living, Alternative Energy, Green News
Al Eisele

It's here, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, that could be the home of one of the cutting edge technologies of the 21st century. It's called single-wall carbon nanotubes.

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CON GAMES: T. Boone's Doggle

Michael Conniff | Posted 09.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Wind, Environment, Hedge Fund, T Boone Pickens, Natural Gas, Wind Power, Green Energy, Green News
Michael Conniff

In the history of television advertising, has any private citizen ever ponyed up $50 million-plus for the greater good of the American people, with no strings attached?

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"Oil vs. Nuclear" Finite Resources: Rising Prices - Lessons from the Past...

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Electricity, Peak Oil, Pickens, Energy Security, Oil, Wind, Uranium, Nuclear, Green News
Gavin D. J. Harper

On the banks of the River Thames, just on the edge of Greater London is a lesson the energy industry could well do to heed.

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Pickens Plan Sounds Like A Poor Pick For We The People

Sandy Goodman | Posted 09.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Kevin Drum, Wind, Anthony Rubenstein, Kerry, Pickens, Gasoline, Gas, CBS News, Electric Power, Water, Republicans, Oil, Swift Boat Veterans, Home News
Sandy Goodman

If you think you can trust Pickens, remember he contributed $3 million to the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth that buried John Kerry's 2004 presidential candidacy in a cesspool of lies.

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Green Leadership

Gavin Newsom | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: George Bush, Solar, Green Jobs, Wind, Green, Pollution, Van Jones, Gavin Newsom, Climate Change, Environment, Tidal Power, San Francisco, Austin, President Bush, Mayor Newsom, Netroots Nation, Green Economy, Green News
Gavin Newsom

San Francisco is one of the greenest cities in the country because we did not wait for Washington. We are taking action now to green our environment and our economy from the ground up.

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