David Cameron: calls for green rollback PA The Times (subscription) David Cameron promised yesterday to cut green levies that have increased energy bills to "a completely unacceptable level", in a move that stunned his coalition partners. The Prime Minister told Nick Clegg half an hour before revealing that he was ...
Poland could halve demand for coal by 2030, study says Reuters UK OSLO (Reuters) - Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday. The report, by researchers in Germany ...
History-rich Nuttallburg tells story of coal mining in New River Gorge Pittsburgh Post Gazette Nuttallburg is a ghost town, the remains of an old coal camp deep in the heavily wooded New River Gorge National River in south-central West Virginia. The mine, tapping the 31/2-foot-thick Sewell coal seam, was once owned by Detroit industrialist Henry ...
Top operators forecast changes for region's oil and gas industry Midland Reporter-Telegram As radically as the Permian Basin oil and gas industry has changed in recent years, three oil and gas company chief executives said it could be even more different in 10 to 15 years' time. Tim Leach, president and chief executive officer of Concho ...
Texas speaker: Oil and gas benefits state but adds to challenges Midland Reporter-Telegram "Every Texan should be grateful for the success of the state's oil and gas industry," said Joe Straus, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. "Every child in public school, every family that visits a state park, every business that transports ...
Tech Tour Day Nine: Top Notch Energy, Environment, Medical Tech At GVSU CBS Local Thum and Parks went through the National Science Foundation's I-Corps program to try to identify customers for their service, contacting regulators, herbicide companies, herbicide applicators, environmental consultants and lake associations in ...
New Website Seeks To Link Oil And Gas Professionals Around The World Permianbasin360 "People can meet with other like-minded individuals, share content amongst each other, and kind of create an online community that's centered around the oil and gas business," Joseph Triepke said. He's the managing director of Oilpro.com. The goal isn ...
A month on, CBI yet to find coal files Times of India NEW DELHI: More than a month after CBI began investigating the missing Coalgate files, which it alleges is a conspiracy, the agency is yet to find the crucial documents. CBI has questioned several coal ministry officials but non-recovery of the files ... Coal scam: CBI questions senior executive of JSPL Jagran Post
Powdr Corp. receives EPA award for using green energy Salt Lake Tribune ... Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who make purchases of green power from a utility green-pricing program, a competitive green marketer or a renewable energy certificate supplier.
OLCV releases scorecard ranking Oregon lawmakers on environment OregonLive.com State Sen. Jackie Dingfelder and state Rep. Michael Dembrow, right, look at the route for a bike ride they helped lead in 2009. Dembrow is expected to be appointed to fill Dingfelder's seat when she steps down in November for a job at Portland City Hall.
In the corporate fight club, the environment usually loses The Conversation This is typical of the fast-emerging trend for the environment to be accorded a market worth and for corporations to be seen as the central institutions through which that worth can be maintained. Consequently, we seem to have reached a stage where ...
Clean Energy Policies Won't Save the Environment, But They Might Hurt It PolicyMic Policies that claim to be sustainable don't always live up to their billing. Before supporting clean energy policies that claim to be sustainable, we should look at the facts. Many of these policies actually increase energy prices and hurt the environment.
5 books about economics and the environment Mother Nature Network ... Reuse, Recycle, Environmental Science, Books, Economics. The economy and the natural environment are interlinked: every economic action can have some effect on the environment, and every environmental change can have an impact on the economy.
Why You Should Avoid This Coal Miner Motley Fool Central Appalachian (CAPP) coal has a high energy content, but it's expensive. That's led to a switch away from the region and an increase in demand for Powder River (PRB) and Illinois Basin coal (ILB). That's bad news for one miner, but good news for ...
EPA regulations shutter two Wisconsin coal-fired generators Daily Caller This is a bad week to work at a coal plant. Wisconsin's Dairyland Power Cooperative announced it will be closing two coal-fired generating units, partly due to regulatory requirements that make it harder to burn coal. Dairyland will be closing two coal... Dairyland to Close Two Coal Units Electric Co-op Today
'Bags for life' face minimum charge after usage doubles in Wales The Guardian More than twice as many reusable "bags for life" have been purchased from supermarkets in Wales since the introduction of a 5p minimum charge for single-use plastic bags, prompting fears that the heavier duty bags are now being used as "throwaway" ...
Front Range smog complicates push for oil and gas industry air rules Denver Post Smog along Colorado's Front Range is thickening again, exceeding federal standards, and government-backed scientists say the oil and gas boom is partly to blame. If the industry expands, scientists at a conference this week said, air quality probably ...
Tory anti-environment advocacy protects corporate, not public, interests The Guardian But Rees-Mogg's piece illustrates the insidious nature of the anti-environment economic ideology that has been so influential in the Tory party, and that has derailed the potential for meaningful environmental policy. Energy companies have announced ...
Exelon, enviros agree on law change to spur green energy Crain's Chicago Business Exelon Corp., Illinois' largest power generator, and environmental groups have reached an agreement in principle on legislation to jump-start the state's stalled clean-energy industry. More solar power projects would get built in Illinois under the ...
Report: Oil and gas employment up 20 percent Charleston Gazette An upswing in drilling activity in the Marcellus Shale gas field was reflected in a 20 percent jump in statewide oil and gas industry employment last year, a report from the Workforce West Virginia Investment Council shows. From 2011 to 2012, oil and...
Koch brother spent $5 million killing green energy project because it'll ... Death and Taxes Bill Koch is the most outspoken and deeply invested opponent of the Cape Wind project, a plan for an offshore wind farm that would supply green energy "reliably to 'the fastest-growing electric load demand center in New England,'" developer Jim Gordon ...
Wilf Woods: Everybody wants green energy The Wenatchee World Online We all want "green" energy, it seems, and we are subsiding it with tax incentives in this country. How far we want to go is an interesting question. Germany has opted for an ambitious goal of producing 35 per cent of its energy by renewables by the ...
Green energy levies: how much do they cost and will they be cut? The Guardian Schemes that help pay for windfarms, solar panels and other renewable energy cost around £53 a year, while other programmes to help poor and vulnerable customers cost around £58 a year. • The renewables obligation costs households around £30 a year ...
Green energy rethink: 'Paying huge amounts of money to do nothing' RT (blog) We need to stop paying for incredibly expensive green energy, and make sure it gets cheaper as fast as possible, otherwise huge amounts of money will be wasted on doing nothing, Bjorn Lomborg, a professor at Copenhagen Business School, told RT.
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