Saturday, December 30, 2006

Electric Vehicles in China

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The Communist Party's Central Committee wants innovation. The Chinese people will want hundreds of millions of vehicles and in order to ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Acid Rain Program Shows Continued Success

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The U.S. EPA released its Acid Rain Program 2005 Progress Report, marking the 11th year of one of the most widely regarded and successful en...

Department of Energy October Short-Term Energy Outlook

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) October Short-Term Energy Outlook Highlights: * Households heating primarily with electri...

EPA Publishes Updated List for Boutique Fuels

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To comply with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, EPA has published a list of "boutique fuels." This list serves as the basis for any ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

China Will Produce More Carbon Dioxide Than the USA

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The International Energy Agency says China will pass the United States in 2009 as the biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions that cause ...

Asia Carbon Dioxide Offset Trading

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Asia Carbon Exchange (ACX), the world’s first CDM-focused exchange announced its first independent auction in August 2006. The auction of C...

Kyoto Protocol Will Not Work Because of USA, India and China

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T he USA, India and China plan to build nearly 850 new coal-fired plants, which would pump up to five times as much carbon dioxide into the ...

China To Build Two Nuclear Power Plants in Weihai

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China plans to build two nuclear power plants in the coastal city of Weihai, in Shandong province, according to city officials. The two plan...
Friday, December 22, 2006

HFC-23 is 12,000 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide

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The Secretariat of the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) estimates that a ton of trifluoromethane (HFC-23) has the same green...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Gazprom is the ExxonMobile of Russia

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Gazprom ( Wikipedia ) is Russia's super oil and gas company. It is the biggest extractor of natural gas in the world. Other similar com...

Statoil Buys Norsk Hydro & Becomes Largest Offshore Company

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Statoil of Norway bought Norsk Hydro for $28 billion to become the world's largest off-shore oil company. Statoil is controlled by the N...

European Union Goes After Airlines on Carbon Dioxide

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Beginning in 2011, the European Union wants to put extra charges for carbon dioxide emissions on foreign and domestic airline carriers. It i...

Oil Shale: Extract by Electric Heat, Steam & Gas Injection

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Shell, Chevron and EGL Resources want to pump oil out of underground oil shale by using three separate techniques: 1) Electrical Heater, 2) ...

Westinghouse to Build Nuclear Power Plants in China

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China and the United States have signed an agreement that supports the transfer of nuclear technology to China. Westinhouse Electric Company...

EPA, China & Asia Agree to Cooperate on Environment

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EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, left, signed a Statement of Cooperation with the Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration...

Verizon To Build NEW Optical Line To China

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V erizon Business is the only U.S. based business that will play a vital role in building the first next-generation undersea optical cable s...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Congestion: Asthma in the Electricity Transmission System

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W hen utiltiies do not have enough electricity from their own generation they import from other utilities or merchant generators. Bottleneck...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Dominion Virginia Power High Power Line Plans Protested

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Residents protested at a December public meeting sponsored by Dominion Virginia Power to get feedback on its plans to build high power lines...

Inspector General Report Says Oil Royalties Unpaid

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E vidently companies operating offshore oil rigs are not pyaing billions in royalties on oil and gas from federal land and coastal waters. T...

NASA Seeks Comments on Proposed Nuke Rover on Mars

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement( DEIS ) for public comment on it...

Congress Approves Nuclear Power Assistance for India

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Before Congress adjourned on Dec 9 they passed legislation to assistance India with civilian nuclear power production, even though such assi...

McKinsey Report Predicts Global Energy Usage

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According to the McKinsey Global Institute , to date, the global debate about energy has focused too narrowly on curbing demand. Instead, th...

Congress Passes Revision of Magnuson-Stevens Act

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Congress passed reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act before it adjourned on Dec 9. The bill reauthorizes the act through 2013. Presid...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Yucca Mountain Supplemental Environmental EIS

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) held a Supplemental Yucca Mountain Repository Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) public scoping meetin...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Dominion Virginia Power Having Trouble Siting Power Lines

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The utiltiy dropped plans to run a high power line through most of Loudoun County. There are very rich and powerful people there so it is no...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

G.E. & Hitachi Will Merge Nuclear Divisions

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The two companies will merge to compete with Westinghouse (owned by Toshiba & Areva) to build the new but yet built economic simplified ...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Robert Samuelson Is A Global Warming Genius

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The Washington Post columnist is so dead on in his article, " Greenhouse Guessing ," that it is scary. At first we thought he had ...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Constellation & Areva Promote Nuclear Power

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Constellation Energy Group and Areva formed a joint venture in 2005, Unistar Nuclear, to build new nuclear power plants. Unistar is consider...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Kyoto Protocol Joint Implementation Mechanism

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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has launched a new mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol expected to generate ...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Our Carbon Mercantile Exchange Is Open for Business

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The Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy (the Center ) has opened an emissions trading service with carbon dioxide as the main comm...