Tag: Energy and the Environment
Big Idea Wednesday: Monster Mile Per Gallon
Twice a year, Dover Downs is the home of NASCAR races. As a guy that owns two hybrids and tries to be a good environmental citizen, I am appalled by the senseless waste of tires, oil, gas that goes on through the various qualifiers and races that go on throughout the weekend. But I get […]
Late Night Video — My Water’s On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)
In the tradition of Schoolhouse Rock, Jay Rosen and his graduate school class (Journalism) at NYU teamed up with Pro-Publica to produce this nicely done musical explainer of hydraulic Fracking for natural gas.
What Does the Oil Spill in the Gulf Look Like?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ91G3e0OBQ[/youtube] Or this footage of an ROV capping a part of the riser: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4I1a5vg3w[/youtube] h/t HuffPo
Cap and Trade is Not a Tax; or Why Delmarva Dealings Failed His Economics Class
Because in spite of this attempt to invoke this appeal to the authority of a basic economics class (which this person Cato has clearly never had), just claiming that TAXES ARE BAD is just not an argument when dealing with cap and trade. Because cap and trade is not a taxation system, it is an […]
Delaware Makes $2M on Cap and Trade and the World Still Has Not Come to an End
Sacré bleu! Cap and trade, you say??
Yes — as we’ve previously reported (here and here), Delaware has been part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Imitative since September 2008.
Innovating to Zero
This is a talk by Bill Gates at the TED conference discussing the need and the challenges of getting enough renewable energy to power not only those who are energy rich now, but those who need to be energy rich. He does a nice job here, I think, in contextualizing the problem, then spends a good deal of time talking about Terrapower.
Delaware and 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States in Pact to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels
This was announced on 12/30 — sorry for the delay is seeing this! You can see the entire Press Release here. The key info:
Gov. Jack Markell joined the governors of 10 other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states today in announcing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) among the states that underscores their commitment toward developing a regional Low Carbon Fuel Standard in a regional effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels for vehicles and other uses.
Invitation to Screening of Coal Country
Everyone is invited to a special Coal Country movie screening being co-hosted by Harmony on the Hill at Wilmington Friends Meeting and the Delaware Chapter of the Sierra Club. The movie sneak preview (about 40 mins of the whole movie, I understand) and discussion is at Wilmington Friends Meeting at 4th & West Streets, Wilmington, on Thursday November 12th at 7 p.m. This event is FREE and open to the public.
Cap and Trade One Year Anniversary and the World Has Not Come To An End
Oh yes — we already have cap and trade!
It is called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and it is a year old this month. 10 states in the northeast banded together to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in the region and installed their own version of a cap and trade program. Every power plant in the area needs to buy allowances to emit greenhouse gasses. Allowances are sold on auction quarterly. At some point, the number of allowances on the market get scaled back — increasing the price of the allowance and sending a signal to the plant that it may be cheaper to reduce their emissions.
Republican Energy Plan Is A Little Limiting…
… unless you’re a oil, coal, or nuclear industry, then the skies the limit! Shall not be considered? Is that an order? If we don’t consider global warming will that make it… go away? And they wonder why no one takes them seriously. h/t Think Progress
Cutting Tax Breaks for Ethanol
Good news that may reduce the incredibly stupid subsidy for corn ethanol: The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed renewable-fuel standards that could reduce the $3 billion a year in federal tax breaks given to producers of corn-based ethanol. The move sets the stage for a major battle between Midwest grain producers and environmentalists who say […]
Breaking! EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
Coming across the wire from the Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency today plans to propose regulating greenhouse gas emissions on the grounds that these pollutants pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare, according to several sources who asked not to be identified. The move, coming almost exactly two years after the Supreme […]
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