All Posts Tagged With: "global warming"
A Cleantech Venture Who is Unconvinced of Man-Made Climate Change
Go ahead — call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change (aka global warming). And I will audaciously tell you that my convictions on climate change in no way run contrary to my strong belief in the need for a cleantech revolution.
19Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Election Doesn’t Spell Cleantech Doom
It won’t be exactly what the president wants and it won’t be exactly what the Republicans want. It will be an old-fashion compromise that may actually result in some policies and that will have greater long-term impact on cleantech than most of the short-term handout programs that were put in place under the largely ineffective cleantech stimulus bill.
13Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Statewide Cap & Trade a Reality?
Two regulatory proposals under consideration in neighboring New Mexico highlight an approach not yet taken by Colorado - the implementation of a statewide cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases. Opponents of the New Mexico proposals claim that the rules will have immediate negative impact on the state’s economy. A key concern is that the increased regulations will only benefit economic activity in neighboring states, like Colorado, that lack any kind of emissions cap, while having little actual effect on global temperature trends.
16Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Commentary: Colorado’s Big Carbon Spill
In recent weeks, Xcel has begun full operation of the new 750 MW coal plant in Pueblo. While Pueblo bears all of the pollution from the coal plant, essentially all of the electricity will be used in places like Denver and Boulder; Pueblo, already the home of two other Xcel coal plants, gets almost none of the electricity.
27May2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Will Natural Gas Save Us?
Is natural gas America’s savior or a transitional fuel source that will tide us over until we become a cleantech nation awash in viable wind, solar and biofuel solutions? Michael J. Newport, CEO of Mainland Resources, asks the question and provides his answer.
12May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Concern Rising over Effects of Climate Change on State’s $2 Billion Winter Sports Industry
Caught in the debate’s crosshairs is Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., who was criticized for joining a congressional caucus on coal. He represents western Colorado, which includes Aspen/Snowmass and other ski resorts.
17Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Salazar to Climate Skeptics: “You’re Wrong”
and the U.S. will Cap Emissions
“Some people don’t even accept that climate change is real,” the former Democratic senator from Colorado said in Copenhagen, where nearly 200 countries are meeting to negotiate a new treaty to combat global warming. “I believe they are wrong.”
11Dec2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
CO2 Products For a Better World –
The Mantra of New Sky Energy
A Semi-Finalist in the Clean Tech Open, this Boulder start-up bills itself as the world’s first carbon negative energy and manufacturing company by using a process that creates high value renewable fuel and removes CO2 from the air.
Colorado Energy News takes a closer look.
Obama Aide: Energy Bill Needs Carbon Cap
It would be a “big mistake” for the Congress to approve an energy bill this year without placing a cap on greenhouse emissions, the White House’s top climate and energy adviser said on Wednesday.
8Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Groundswell Demands Change on Energy Policy
These stories might be seen as the wacky protests of a fringe of enviro-hippies, except that major corporations including Nike, Levi Strauss & Co., Starbucks Corp. and utilities like PG&E Corp. are getting in on the act. PG&E last week became the second utility to recently leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the body’s policy of denying climate change caused by man-made sources of carbon.
28Sep2009 | 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
Coal ‘Elephant’ Stalks Policy Debate
What they didn’t talk about at the Fort Collins forum, at least according to news accounts, was eliminating carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. That’s a big omission: no amount of renewable-energy subsidies, replacement of gas-guzzlers with hybrid vehicles, or R&D on solar power technology is going to mitigate global climate change unless we do something about coal plants, existing and future.
31Aug2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Waxman-Markey a Win For Colorado
Republican opposition is to be expected; Salazar’s no vote is a bit harder to explain. By creating a market for carbon-emission permits, the bill will almost certainly favor states with large installed bases of renewable energy capacity – which Colorado, under Gov. Ritter’s New Energy Economy program, will soon be.
29Jun2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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