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EPA Cracks Down on Cap & Trade Dissenters
The EPA has told two longtime agency veterans and outspoken critics of the administration's cap-and-trade plan to remove any references to the agency in their critiques and to get approval for any future "outside writing projects." That includes removing their critical video from You Tube.
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Obama Stimulus Bill ‘Saves or Creates” Thousands of Green Manufacturing Jobs… In China
Source: Gateway Pundit
The Obama Stimulus Plan will help pay for a $1.5 billion wind farm in Texas. The project will mean thousands of new jobs for wind turbine manufacturers… in China.
Only 30 of the 330 jobs created in Texas will be fulltime jobs after the project is complete.
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In Senate, coal fuels climate deals
Source: Politico
Forget the debate over green jobs, wind farms and solar power. In the Senate, all deals on climate change run through coal country.
Black gold has maintained a tight hold over the climate bill — despite a damaging lobbying scandal this summer, growing public health concerns and a destructive toxic coal ash spill that smothered 300 acres in eastern Tennessee last December.
Thirty-four states rely on coal as a driver of economic activity. Department of Energy studies from 2007 found that coal provides about half of all American power and employed more than 80,000 people in mines. Each one of those positions creates another 3½ jobs on railways, barges and elsewhere in the economy, according to the National Mining Association.
Coal’s economic reach has translated into significant lobbying power in Washington. Coal provides more jobs than nearly any other energy source because of the low degree of automation in the mining process. Most of those jobs — either in the mines or on the railways that send coal shipments across the country — are unionized.
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Obama strikes clean energy deal with China
Source: USA Today
The seven point announcement also includes a $150 million joint research institute and the start-up of a cooperative program starting with 22 companies to develop clean energy production sites, such as wind, solar or geothermal power, which do not release atmosphere-heating greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
U.S. and Chinese researchers last month revealed that China possess geological reservoirs sufficient to hold at least a century's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants there. Both nations, which produce about 40% of the world's emissions, rely largely on coal for electricity, spurring interest in "clean" coal. "There are growing global challenges, and countries in today's world have become more and more interdependent. In this context, it is necessary to step up international cooperation," Jintao said.
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Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change
Source: Spiegel
US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change. But on climate change, he has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Now, should the climate summit in Copenhagen fail, the blame will lie squarely with Obama.
Obama Lied to the Europeans
Barack Obama cast himself as a "citizen of the world" when he delivered his well-received campaign speech in Berlin in the summer of 2008. But the US president has now betrayed this claim. In his Berlin speech, he was dishonest with Europe. Since then, Obama has neglected the single most important issue for an American president who likes to imagine himself as a world citizen, namely, his country's addiction to fossil fuels and the risks of unchecked climate change. Health-care reform and other domestic issues were more important to him than global environmental threats.
A world of flooded coasts, dried-up rivers and disappearing rainforests will lead to massive refugee movements and conflict. The Nobel Committee should postpone the award ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize from Dec. 10 to Dec. 20. Only if Obama has achieved a convincing deal at the Copenhagen conference will there be a real reason to honor him.
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Massey Energy completes purchase of W.Va. reserves
Source: Washington Examiner
CHARLESTON, W.VA. — Massey Energy says it has completed its purchase of 15 million tons of northern West Virginia coal reserves.
Massey says it purchased the metallurgical and steam coal reserves in Barbour County from bankrupt Kentucky-based operator Appalachian Fuels. The company did not disclose the purchase price.
In addition to the reserves, Massey says it acquired various permits that will allow it to begin production on the property.
Massey says the purchase brings its total reserves to 2.3 billion tons.
Richmond, Va.-based Massey has operations in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky.
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Dominion Virginia Power CFL Bulb Instant Discount Program Saves Enough Energy Thus Far to Power 72,000 Homes
Source: CNN
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Virginians are saving about 1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity through Dominion Virginia Power’s compact fluorescent light bulb instant discount program. That is enough energy to serve 72,000 typical Virginia homes, based on 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month, per home. Click here to learn more: http://www.dom.com/dominion-virginia-power/customer-service/energy-conservation/save-big-on-cfls.jsp.
The Home Depot offers a national CFL bulb recycling program at all 1,973 of its stores. This free service offers customers additional options for making environmentally conscious decisions from purchase to disposal. Customers can simply bring in any expired, unbroken CFL bulbs and give them to the store associate behind the returns desk.
Although the CFL program ends on Dec. 31, 2009 it is expected to resume in 2010, pending Virginia State Corporation Commission approval.
