Back in November, 2006 I contributed the inaugural post for Terra Rossa describing our blog as a place where conservatives could discuss a new energy future in which new jobs are created through research, Creation is protected through reduced greenhouse gas pollution, and our national security is improved through less [...]
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Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
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U.S. News & World Reports James Pethokoukis had a terrific post on his Capitol Commerce blog yesterday. Check it out. He highlighted a recent solar energy innovation at MIT that he believes is a contributing factor to the recent decline in oil prices. (That may or may not be [...]
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Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
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Reuters Deborah Zabarenko reports that the U.S. Army has started a new initiative to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2015. In addition to the environmental benefits, the Army is motivated by the belief that less fuel equals less risk to American troops. If we can reduce [...]
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Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
Please enjoy todays energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know [...]
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Have you read my fellow Terra Rossa blogger William Tuckers opinion piece in todays Wall Street Journal?
Lots to like here.
I got a kick out of Bills re-branding of nuclear energy: terrestrial energy, he calls it.
He says it should be one of the solutions to climate change and our [...]
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Exelon, Americas largest electric power utility, just made some big news. The Chicago-based company wants to significantly reduce their carbon footprint.
In a bid to shape the debate on carbon dioxide rules and to get a jump on compliance, according to the NY Times, Exelon will reduce, offset, or [...]
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When a long-time Texas oilman says the U.S. needs to use less oil, you know weve reached a tipping point. But thats exactly what GOP supporter and legendary oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is urging in his Pickens Plan to cut U.S. oil dependency by greatly expanding the use [...]
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The New York Times reports today about a proposed coal-fired power plant’s air pollution permit being revoked by a state judge because it did not set limits on carbon dioxide emissions — according to the article, “the first time a court decision had linked carbon dioxide to an air [...]
Fret not, Terra Rossa readers. Republican governors seem undeterred by recent inaction on climate legislation by the U.S. Senate.
Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, the newly elected chairman of the Western Governors Association, said this weekend he plans to continue the WGAs work on climate and even wants to reach overseas [...]
GOP Govs. Continue to Lead on Climate
Fret not, Terra Rossa readers. Republican governors seem undeterred by recent inaction on climate legislation by the U.S. Senate. Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, the newly elected chairman of the Western Governors Association, said this weekend he plans to continue the WGAs work on climate [...]
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Heres some interesting news that didnt get widely reported, except for an editorial in the Washington Post.
An independent task force commissioned by the influential Council on Foreign Relations just released a report that urges an overhaul of U.S. domestic and foreign policy to confront the challenge of climate [...]
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Due to the soaring rise in gas prices safety directors and city finance directors or going back to city council to find more funds to pay for gasoline. Large cities are $3-$5 million over their projected budgets. Police forces are returning to their roots to combat the outrageous rise in [...]
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Advertising Age reports that some of the reddest states at the polls are among the greenest at the grocery checkout. In fact, solidly red states such as Idaho, Utah and Alaska are home to some of the greenest shoppers around, according to a recent marketing survey.
Its just more evidence [...]
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It’s a big week for proponents of a national carbon cap-and-trade system, as the Climate Security Act is working its way to the Senate floor (you can read more about it in these recent articles from the New York Times and the Washington Post).
The jury is still out [...]
This week the U.S. Senate is debating bipartisan legislation introduced by Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) that would reduce greenhouse gas pollution through a market-based cap & trade system. Critics say given rising gas prices and the state of our economy now is the worst time to take [...]
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Ive been saying for a long time if Republicans will step up and start offering solutions to climate change and discussing them in terms that reflect our Partys principles, then we could take a key election issue away from Democrats. Or at least wrestle them to a jump-ball on the [...]
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If you live in Washington, DC, New York or Southern California and see a driver in a Chevy Equinox pointing and laughing as you pull into your local gas station to fill-up, try not to take offense. That driver may be one of the lucky few who are test driving [...]
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Well, last week?s post about Newt Gingrich and green conservatism generated quite a debate among our readers and quickly became, I believe, the most-read post in the history of Terra Rossa. So I thought I?d try to keep that discussion going by talking a [...]
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So warbled Kermit the Frog many years ago. Wikipedia says the song ?is associated with problems with identity,? and I?m sure a few noteworthy conservative conservationists can relate.
Newt Gingrich is one. As my fellow Terra Rossa contributor Whit Ayres pointed out last week, Newt has been feeling [...]
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A few weeks ago, I talked about Al Gore?s new ?We Campaign? and its multi-million dollar ad campaign featuring such strange pairings as Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson, and Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi.
Well the ads are up and running ? you?ve probably seen some of them. And, I [...]
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The other night I watched a Wal-Mart commercial that was selling organic coffee. The tag line was “if all 220,000,000 Wal-Mart shoppers purchased a pound of these (magic) beans we could help the environment.” The next commercial I watched had a woman telling me that Silk Soy milk donates a [...]
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I?ve already paid several visits to Nationals Park, the brand-new baseball stadium in downtown Washington, DC. It?s a state-of-the-art facility, has all the amenities a fan could want in a stadium, and is a great place to watch a game.
What I didn?t know, however, was that it?s also perhaps the [...]
Yes, today is Tax Day ? or, more accurately, the deadline Uncle Sam has given us to finish handing-over his take of our hard-earned paychecks.
Today in particular it baffles me how some folks support imposing a new carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions when there?s a proven, market-based alternative available [...]
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Here’s the latest development in creative solar technology, courtesy of Reuters: giant solar balloons.
Israeli scientists are working on a way to put flexible solar panels on large, helium-filled balloons, that would float hundreds of yards in the air, collecting the sun’s rays, and transmitting the energy to homes and [...]
Recently I?ve seen a bunch of news stories like this quoting folks who feel cap & trade is too risky because the technology isn?t yet available to help America meet greenhouse gas emission caps.
Well, that?s not exactly the case. A study published in Science magazine by Princeton University [...]
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Al Gore. Actually, don?t call it a comeback ? he?s been here all along. But the former Vice President is making headlines as he prepares to roll out a massive $300 million dollar ad campaign urging the nation to act on the climate change issue.
Gore discussed the campaign with CBS [...]
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?Art imitates life? is a commonly used phrase when some piece of art, literature or cinema that has been represented as fiction finds its way into our non-fiction world. Sitting in my home tonight I was presented with a doozy.
I was reading the editorial page in my local paper and [...]
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Sitting around in the dark might be good for reflection, unless you?re a ray of light.
You might’ve missed it, but Earth Hour occurred Saturday, March 29. People in cities across the globe were to turn out the lights for one hour to help fight climate change.
Now I favor reasonable conservation [...]
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I wanted to bring to the attention of our readers an illuminating interview that the Wall Street Journal?s Alan Murray and Kimberley Strassel conducted with GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt this week.
In the interview, available here, Mr. Immelt covers a wide variety of energy and environmental topics from a capitalist [...]
One of the most common concerns raised by opponents of cap & trade is it will cost a lot of Americans their jobs. Given folks’ anxiety about the state of our economy today those concerns, whether true or not, have an impact.
I’m not an expert on the economy, though like [...]
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I keep hearing legislators say that we cannot address climate change without CHINA. I wholeheartedly agree that China has to be part of the solution — but since when does the United States wait for China to lead? There are a few lessons from the world of sports that may [...]
Even as the Lieberman-Warner bill continues to languish in committee, it has been a big week for proponents of cap-and-trade in the U.S. First, the New York Mercantile Exchange announced that it would start selling futures in a carbon market, joining other U.S. companies like the Chicago Climate Exchange. And [...]
Now that?s a powerful message coming from three senior business executives who know a lot about creating jobs.
In a new nationwide TV ad premiering today, three surprising voices join the climate chorus:
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