ExxonMobil Buys Gas, as Big Oil Plans for a Renewable-Energy Future
3:40 PM 12/15/2009

These days, everyone wants a piece of the rock -- domestic shale, that is. With oil-drilling costs north of $3.5 million per well and natural gas trading below $3, global energy companies are all about American shale. In November, Europe's second-largest supplier of natural gas, Norwegian-based...
Big ideas on carbon emissions swirl through a radical energy conference
11:30 AM 12/7/2009

At November's Carbon Economy summit in Washington, so many good proposals came up that I can hardly say which was best. So, here's a list of some that were truly outstanding
Entering the nuclear age? A utilities CEO wants federal control on energy
10:00 AM 11/28/2009

Will the federal government ever take more control of the nation's energy policy? At the Carbon Economy conference in Washington in mid-November, Duke Energy (DUK) CEO Jim Rogers stole the show when he broached that idea.
Today, each state has tremendous power to manage its own energy needs;...
NRG Energy sees the (green) light, buys Bluewater Wind
1:00 PM 11/15/2009

NRG Energy (NRG) a $3 billion company with 24,000 megawatts of coal, natural gas, nuclear and solar power plants in its portfolio, has acquired Bluewater Wind, based in Hoboken, N.J., for cash on hand. The deal, announced in a press conference last Monday with Drew Murphy, NRG's Northeast regional...
Climate change bill: How Congress could fail us all, even if it passes health care
2:20 PM 11/11/2009
While the planet's environmental apocalypse may not be much much nigh than it was last month, this year's Election Day bore grim tidings for voters concerned with climate change. By electing public officials whose tendency on this issue is inaction, we may tipped the climate ever so slightly in the...
Why the booming wind industry needs a renewable electricity standard
11:30 AM 10/21/2009

Last Wednesday was New York Wind Energy Day. Like other recent officially designated days (New York International Fringe Festival Day, Hispanic Television Summit Day), Wind Energy Day coincided with a big conference: the Wind Power Finance & Investment Workshop, hosted by the American Wind...
Energy production adding $120 billion in hidden costs to the nation
8:20 PM 10/19/2009

Energy production and use in America could be adding as much as $120 billion in hidden costs to the nation, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the National Academy of Sciences.
The report, "Hidden costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy...

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has thrown his hat into the green-investment ring, pledging to spend $1 billion on clean energy. The 29th richest man in the world with a net worth of about $11 billion, Soros suggested he is interested in investing in technologies that are profitable and...
The U.S. has an appointment with history. The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, slated for December, represents an opportunity for the U.S. to urge the world into taking serious action on climate change -- and reclaim America's leadership role in world affairs, a role...
The secret hero of Ronald Brownstein's article "The California Experiment" in the October Atlantic Monthly is Arthur H. Rosenfeld. A California Energy Commissioner, Rosenfeld is a winner of the Enrico Fermi Award -- the top scientific honor in the United States -- and a man widely recognized as an...
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