Thursday, April 26, 2007

Progress In Closing Ozone Hole

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A new EPA publication, Achievements in Stratospheric Ozone Protection: Progress Report highlights U.S. contributions toward healing the ozo...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

China Car Makers

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China has more than 100 automakers with about 20 of them producing cars in large volumes. In 2006 China's passenger-car exports more th...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Touring Nuclear Power Plants in China

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The Center for Environment, Commerce and Energy toured the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in Guangdong Province in Mainland China. Derry Bigb...
Friday, April 20, 2007

China Is Building Nuclear Power Plants

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Center President Norris McDonald, center, is pictured above with high school students standing in front of a new nuclear power plant being ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

EPA Relaxes Clean-Air Requirements for Ethanol Fuel Plants

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Plants turning corn into liquor were allowed to emit 250 tons of emissions per year before triggering clean-air regulations, while those pro...

Supreme Court Tells EPA To Regulate Carbon Dioxide

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The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision ruled on April 2 that the U.S. EPA erred in rejecting the state of Massachusetts petition and others. N...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson Is In India

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U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen L.Johnson is leading a U.S. delegation to India to meet with environmental officials on global environmental...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Alternative Ethanol Solutions : Dominican Republic

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Ethanol is being promoted as an alternative and additive to gasoline. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandated a 7.5 billion gallon renewable...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Center To Visit Nuclear Facilities in China

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The Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy has been invited to meet with government officials and industry representatives in China...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Chinese Premier Talks About Energy and the Environment

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Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, right, wants the country to improve energy efficiency and environmental protection. He recently gave a sp...
Saturday, March 03, 2007

Department of Energy Ethanol Grants Awarded

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The Department of Eenrgy has issued 6 grants totalling $385 million from the Energy Policy Act of 2005 $2 billion loan guarantee program Th...

London Wants To Reduce Its Carbon Footprint

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London Mayor Ken Livingstone wants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the city by 20 million tons by 2025 via homes, businesses, energy p...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

New Coalition Promotes Ethanol

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A 400 member coalition of farm groups, hunters, businessmen and environmentalists have formed a new coalition called the 25X25 Renewable En...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

TXU

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The proposed $45 billion purchase of TXU Corporation by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and Texas Pacific Group hit th...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

China To Build Nuclear Plant Inland

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China National Nuclear Corporation, together with China Three Gorges Project Corporation, China Resources Co. Ltd and Hunan Xiangtou Holdin...
Monday, February 26, 2007

China Orders Two More Nuclear Plants

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China has given the French state-run company Areva a $5 billion deal to build two nuclear power plants in southern Guangdong Province by 20...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Sir Nicholas Stern Appears Before Senate Energy Committee

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The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee held a hearing today to appraise the Stern Review -- a major report on the economic imp...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Paul Driessen Talks About Global Warming Profits

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Driessen, left, is a global warming skeptic and writes: Scientists who use climate change to explain environmental changes improve their ch...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Dayolight Savings Time Moved Up To March 11

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The Energy Policy Act of 2005 moved daylight savings time up from the first Sunday in April to March 11 starting this year to save approxi...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Tennessee Valley Authority Wants 2 New Nuclear Plants

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will submit applications to build two new nuclear reactors and restart its oldest reactor after a 22-ye...

Nuclear Plants Do Not Need To Be Protected From Planes

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ruled 5-to-0 that the nation's 103 nuclear power plants do not need to protect themselves from pot...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Senator James Inhofe Starts Blog

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He was the Chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee until the Republicans lost the Senate. He does not believe in glo...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Ford Edge Hybrid Electric Vehicle Should Be The Future

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We like the Ford HySeries Edge . We have been promoting this concept for years. It is the future and should be the future because it gets go...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The Polar Bear, the Penguin and the Eagle

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The Eagle will be taken off of the Endangered Species List. It is well overdue. There are eagles everwhere. There was even a famous eagle me...

Plug-In Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Cars

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The Lithium-ion car batteries are expensive. Once they are mass produced the price will come down. And Lithium-ion batteries don't like...

Malcolm Bricklin To Build Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles

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We are on the same page with Malcolm Bricklin left. Remember the gull-wing Bricklin? It was the cult classic car of the 1970s. The coolest c...
Monday, January 08, 2007

U.S. EPA Names Harold Zenick Director of National Lab

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Dr. George Gray, Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office ofResearch and Development (ORD), has named Dr...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Arlington Country Fights Global Warming

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Arlington County government plans to spend $6 million to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. They will pay rebates to residents who use ...
Monday, January 01, 2007

Lithium Ion Battery Compared to Nickel Metal Hydride

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The lithium ion (Li ion) battery, left graphics, is a rechargeable battery technology introduced in 1991 that provides greater charge per po...

Russia Plays Hardball with Gazprom Gas Pipeline

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Russia is maximizing profits and manipulating foreign policy with its huge natural gas resources and massive gas pipeline system. Russia is ...