All Posts Tagged With: "Obama Administration"
A Tale of Two Conferences — The World Renewable Energy Forum and DUO Oil and Gas Collide in the Mile High City
Speaking at the World Renewable Energy Forum in Denver today, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu called on Congress to extend tax credits that support the nation’s alternative energy industry. Next door, they talked unconventional shale and jobs.
17May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Bird Deaths Haunt Wind Energy —
Interior Puts Forth a Plan
Environmentalists are facing a conundrum: To fight green energy projects that they see as detrimental to their cause or to work with the developers and the authorities to minimize damages. The U.S. Dept. of Interior has made some suggestions that it thinks will help alleviate bird deaths associated with wind energy.
23Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EPA Tightens Emission Regs for New Wells - But Gives Industry More Time to Comply
The new rules require drillers to capture emissions of certain air pollutants from new wells, but operators have been given more time to comply. The EPA says they can burn pollutants at the well head until the start of 2015.
19Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Obama Pledges Rapid Permits for Seven Major Transmission Projects
The White House said the move will create “thousands” of construction and operations jobs, while transforming the nation’s electric system into a “modern, 21st century grid” that is safer and more secure, giving consumers more energy choices.
6Oct2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Green Jobs: Boom, or Bust?
While the success of federal stimulus funding—both in terms of green jobs and otherwise—is indeed debatable, the ability of the private sector to create hundreds of thousands or even millions of green jobs provides a more promising outlook for future growth.
21Sep2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Obama’s Bets on Abound, SoloPower Cutting Costs to Avoid Bankruptcy
Solar energy manufacturers that received backing from the Obama administration may survive an onslaught of cheap Chinese panels that helped force Solyndra LLC into bankruptcy. Loveland-based Abound and SoloPower in California say their thin-film panels will compete on price against the most common type of solar panels.
16Sep2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
What Obama Could Say in His Speech That Would Really Turn The Economy Around
These three little stories—all within the past few weeks, represent the overall attitude of this administration toward businesses that create jobs and revenue. Until the administration decides to work with, and not against, the job creators in the economy, growth will remain flat—or worse.
8Sep2011 | admin | 7 comments | Continued
BIOFUELS BEAT
A round-up of the latest biofuels news from
Colorado Energy News editors …
>> Obama’s Latest Biofuels Initiative
>> Colorado Company’s Patent Battle
>> ZeaChem, Chyrsler Form Strategic Alliance
>> Creating “Designer” Grasses
Biden Promotes Science, Renewables During NREL Visit
In his remarks, the VP said developing new energy technologies is this generation’s “moon shot.” Boulder startup, e-Chromic, won the first“America’s Next Top Innovator” Challenge honor.
21May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
DOE Praises and Promotes Electric
Vehicle Market
$25,000, 350-mile-per-charge electric car could be reality within six years, according to the Feds. At Friday’s gala event, Secretary Chu and local officials in L.A. flipped the switch on the 500th electric-vehicle charging station installed by Coulomb Technologies as part of its ChargePoint America network.
15May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Feds Plan Broad-Based Panel to Examine
Fracking Risks
The subcommittee will work to identify, within 90 days, any immediate steps that can be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of fracking, and to develop, within six months, recommendations on practices for shale extraction to ensure the protection of public health and the environment.
4Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
New Report Shows Even Clean Energy Projects Dying in Regulatory Nightmares
The study, which was meant to quantify the economic impact of stalled energy projects due to regulatory burdens, found that there are more renewable energy projects currently caught up in red tape than projects in the fossil fuel industry.
11Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Two Years Into The Stimulus
LIke it or not, one thing is clear according to a new report –
The Recovery Act is poised to achieve its goal of doubling clean energy capacity over the next two years. The Transportation Sector received the greatest stimulus boost in terms of sheer dollar allotment with more than $22 billion to promote the development, production, and purchase of energy efficient transportation solutions and technologies.
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 ...