"Paying Extra for Green Power, and Getting Ads Instead"
When electric utility customers pay extra for "green power certificates," are they really getting green power?
Source: NYTimes, 11/17/2009
Energy & Fuel
Coal-Ash Disposal Remains A Front-Burner Issue at EPA
Most of the 580-plus coal-ash impoundments and landfills in the
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Natural Gas Case Sparks Change in Air Pollution Assessments
Dogging the resulting developments of a new EPA policy could lead to many stories that focus on both the specific cases and the underlying principle of cumulative assessments of pollutants.
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"Brazil Restores Power After Outage Hits Capital, Ten States"
"Power was restored in Brazil after an outage at a dam providing 20 percent of the country's energy thrust about half of the nation's 190 million people into darkness for at least two hours."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/11/2009
"Big Growing Pains and Potential for $5B Weatherization Program"
"Next month, a new class of a dozen or more men and women will begin training in Long Island City, N.Y., to become home weatherization technicians. They are early recruits in a small army of workers being deployed in places around the country where there were only skeleton crews before."
Source: ClimateWire, 11/10/2009
"Climate Deal To Prevent Doubling of Energy Bills"
"A climate change deal is needed not just to ward off global warming, but to ensure a shift from increasingly costly fossil fuels that could lead to a doubling of energy bills, the IEA's chief economist said on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 11/10/2009
"Chrysler Dismantles Electric Car Plans Under Fiat"
"Chrysler has disbanded a team of engineers dedicated to rushing a range of electric vehicles to showrooms and dropped ambitious sales targets for battery-powered cars set as it was sliding toward bankruptcy and seeking government aid."
Source: Reuters, 11/09/2009
At Los Alamos, Secrecy Is the Opposite of Safety
The U.S. Department of Energy scrambles to delay a report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board about a significant threat of radiation release from Los Alamos National Laboratory, a citizen watchdog group discovered.
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IG Finds Former NRC Commissioner Hid Ethics Violations
The Project on Government Oversight used FOIA to get reports and documents from an NRC Inspector General's investigation of Jeffrey Merrifield.
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