All Posts Tagged With: "economic downturn"
Survey: Western Voters Favor the Environment — Despite Struggling Economy
The economic rationale of relaxing environmental standards is a non-starter with the voters surveyed. What’s more, 54 percent indicated they’d be willing to pay at least ten dollars more per month to increase the use of renewable energy to generate electricity in their state.
24Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Cap-and-Trade Proposals Are Failing The Public’s
“Test of Common Sense” Say Western Business Group
“If Congress goes back to the drawing board and develops climate legislation that follows these 10 common sense principles, it would undoubtedly be embraced by the American people,” says the Western Business Roundtable’s Jim Sims. No doubt, some will disagree with the group’s proposals.
23Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
When Energy Becomes the Real Currency
In other words, when it comes to energy shares, buy and hold. Increasingly, the wealth of nations will be measured in power (as in kilowatt-hours, not tanks or laws) rather than in currency or gold. A key point — the sharp oil-price spike of 2007-08 was not, as politicians wished to claim, the result of manipulation by shady speculators, but “an inevitable consequence of booming demand and stagnant production.”
6Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
We need to promote export terminals to liquify and ship natural gas to markets in Asia and Euroupe. The US ...
Natural Gas can be consumed so efficiently that the WATER can even be recovered from the combusted exhaust gases.
Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
Re: Natural gas generation wasn’t included in the final analysis but is generally assumed to emit about half as much ...
Disclosure MIGHT prevent pollution if there was a watchdog agency that ruled yes or no on particular chemicals before they ...
Having just read Tom Gray's article 'Fred Udo's bogus numbers' I get the feeling I haven't understood whats going on. ...
I agree with you kirsch. I knew this article had the stench of industry money as soon add I read ...
Can someone explain how disclosure prevents pollution? They can still release air toxins and they are still not held ...