By Kennedy Maize
I must confess I fell off my office chair when I read this report from the Associated Press: “A north pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite.”
It seems that two [...]
By Kennedy Maize
Having returned from two weeks in southern Patagonia, I now feel entirely qualified to offer insights on global warming, based entirely (of course) on anecdotal evidence.
First, it was a bad summer in the south: cold, windy, with intermittent blasts of sleet and snow. Folks [...]
By Kennedy Maize
Welcome a new energy holding company, with a characteristically meaningless name.
It’s “Integrys Energy Group,” the Chicago-based marriage of WPS Resources of Green Bay, Wisc., and Peoples Energy Corp. of Chicago. The Wisconsin Public Service Commission last week gave its final blessing to the wedding, [...]
By Kennedy Maize
As some U.S. electric utilities are advocating a cap-and-trade mechanism to reduce carbon dioxide emissions (earning charges of being “profiteers” from Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the European carbon trading market has collapsed.
Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, reports that last year, the European Union’s [...]
By Kennedy Maize
Greenland’s glaciers are rapidly melting, providing graphic evidence of global warming, right? Wrong, says Ian Howat at the University of Washington in Seattle. The picture is more complex, and two of Greenland’s largest glaciers have both melted, and regained their previous size.
In an article [...]
By Kennedy Maize
The political gridlock over high-level nuclear waste could be a good thing for the nuclear industry, DTE Energy CEO Tony Early told the Economic Club of Detroit on Monday.
The “current political stalemate over long-term solutions may be a blessing in disguise,” nuclear Navy veteran [...]
By Kennedy Maize
The Long Island Power Authority has always been a rather bizarre utility, reflecting the personality of its chairman, Richie Kessel, former New York state consumer advocate. As one long-time observer of the industry told me some time ago, “Richie’s operating strategy is, when in doubt, [...]
By Kennedy Maize
The largest group of organized Baptists in Texas is challenging the Lone Star State’s coal crash course. The Christian Life Commission, reports the Houston Chronicle, is trying to block Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s support for 18 new coal-fired plants in [...]
By Kennedy Maize
Big John Dingell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went eye-to-eye this week, and Pelosi blinked.
Pelosi had wanted to end-run Dingell, the Detroit Democrat who chairs the all-powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, on climate legislation by setting up a special ad hoc committee to [...]
By Kennedy Maize
More on the “it must be global warming” front. After a very warm January, the Middle Atlantic states, where I live, are frigid.
One of my water pipes, which runs through an unheated foyer, froze Monday night, which has happened only once before in the [...]
