"Tax-Cut Bill Includes Big Boost for Liquid Coal"
"The tax-cut bill that the House of Representatives [passed] late Thursday ... provides some energy tax breaks, including a subsidy for producing liquid coal."
Source: McClatchy, 12/17/2010
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"California Air Regulators Approve Carbon-Trading Plan"
"The cap-and-trade system will limit emissions from 600 major industrial plants in the state, starting in 2012. Firms could buy pollution offsets from timber companies that preserve carbon in forests."
Source: LA Times, 12/17/2010
"Kansas Allows Utility To Build Coal-Fired Electric Plant"
"After a four-year effort, a western Kansas utility won state permission Thursday to construct an 895-megawatt, coal-fired power plant."
Source: Kansas City Star, 12/17/2010
BLM Picks 22 Million Acres of Public Land for Solar Energy Projects
"The Department of Interior has identified some two dozen potential sites for large-scale solar power installations on public lands in six Western states as part of an effort to encourage development of renewable energy on public lands and waters."
Source: NYTimes, 12/17/2010
"FOXLEAKS: Fox Boss Ordered Staff To Cast Doubt on Climate Science"
Fox News Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon ordered the network's journalists to include language in their stories casting doubt on established climate change science and data, an email memo shows.
Source: Media Matters, 12/16/2010
"Mapping Mortality: A Special Report on the Air We Breathe"
A yearlong Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation has shown that persistent air pollution in southwestern Pennsylvania is linked to higher incidence of killers like heart disease, respiratory disease, and lung cancer in hundreds of communities.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/16/2010
"Senate Votes To Extend Ethanol Subsidy For 2011"
"The Senate on Wednesday voted in favor of a one-year extension of the ethanol tax credit and the ethanol import tariff at existing rates, despite complaints the subsidies were wasteful."
Source: Reuters, 12/16/2010
"U.S. Called Vulnerable to Rare Earth Shortages"
"The United States is too reliant on China for minerals crucial to new clean energy technologies, making the American economy vulnerable to shortages of materials needed for a range of green products — from compact fluorescent light bulbs to electric cars to giant wind turbines."
Source: NYTimes, 12/16/2010
"Judge Discards 'Sloppy Science' by FWS on Delta Smelt"
"A federal judge yesterday threw out a federal scientific study that forms the basis for protecting the delta smelt in California's sprawling Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta."
Source: Greenwire, 12/16/2010
Safety Board Finds Oil Industry Failing to Learn From Past Disasters
"Independent federal experts investigating the blowout aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig are finding major parallels between this year's disaster and a 2005 blast that killed 15 workers at a BP PLC refinery in Texas -- indicating the industry has failed to overhaul safety rules, they said [Wednesday]."
Source: Greenwire, 12/16/2010
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