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HOW BIG OIL AND BIG COAL MOUNTED ONE OF THE MOST AGGRESSIVE LOBBYING CAMPAIGNS IN HISTORY TO BLOCK PROGRESS ON GLOBAL WARMING
Jan 11th
Rolling Stone
January 6, 2010
This was supposed to be the transformative moment on global warming, the tipping point when America proved to the world that capitalism has a conscience, that we take the fate of the planet seriously. According to the script, Congress would pass a landmark bill committing the U.S. to deep cuts in carbon emissions. President Obama would then arrive in Copenhagen for the international climate summit, armed with the moral and political capital he needed to challenge the rest of the world to do the same. After all, wasn’t this the kind of bold move the Norwegians were More >
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Loading ...Mass. planning new solar energy push in 2010 – BostonHerald.com
Jan 1st
By Associated Press
Friday, January 1, 2010
BOSTON — Massachusetts is planning a new drive for solar energy in 2010 with a string of programs designed to dramatically increase the number and size of solar panel arrays in the state.
The push comes as Gov. Deval Patrick, heading into an election year, hopes to make good on his pledge to turn Massachusetts into one of the nation’s renewable energy hubs.
The administration is already touting what it says are its successes in helping encourage the use of solar panels — pointing to “a nearly 15-fold increase in solar installations over Governor Patrick’s first four-year More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...An Energy-Policy Rethink Is Required
Dec 27th
By DAN LEWIS
As much of northwestern Europe basks in a cold and unusually white Christmas, the continent’s failure to confront its urgent energy-security concerns is a disgrace.
The old continent continues to be squeezed from two directions— internally by the inefficacy and high costs of its own policies and externally by its increasing energy imports from countries where it has little and declining influence, due principally to its waning economic strength. European nations must act quickly to secure the big impact of clean and secure energy investments, increase competition by fully unbundling their gas-and-electricity networks and face down the challenge of Russian More >
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China enacts law to promote renewable energy – Taiwan News Online
Dec 27th
By JOE McDONALD Associated Press 2009-12-27 12:44 PM
China’s utilities will be required to buy all the power produced by wind farms and other renewable sources under a new law meant to promote the industry and reduce heavy reliance on coal.
Legislators approved the measure Saturday as an amendment to China’s 2006 renewable energy law, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Beijing has set ambitious goals for wind, solar and other renewable energy in an effort to clean up its environment and curb surging demand for imported oil and gas, which communist leaders see as a strategic weakness.
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China Requires Utilities to Buy All the Electricity Generated By Renewable Energy Companies : CleanTechnica
Dec 27th
Published on December 26th, 2009 in alternative energy, policy
This weekend the main Chinese legislature adopted an amendment to the renewable energy law, requiring that utilities must buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators. Utilities refusing would be fined up to an amount double that of the economic loss of the renewable energy company.
The big question is: for how much? Whether this would create a boom in renewable energy in China will depend on how much money companies could earn in the sales. So far, this figure is not in the news reports. This amount paid per kilowatt-hour produced is More >
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