News: ‘Climate & Energy’ Archive
‘BONN, GERMANY—Throughout the United Nations climate talks due to end today in Bonn, the United States blocked measures that would move negotiations forward, according to Friends of the Earth.’
via U.S. Holds Climate Negotiations Hostage | Friends of the Earth.
The world is on track to produce a new global climate treaty by December, the top United Nations climate official said Friday as delegates from more than 100 nations concluded 12 days of talks in Bonn, Germany.
via Climate Change Treaty, to Go Beyond the Kyoto Protocol, Is Expected by the Year’s End – NYTimes.com.
‘SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California on Friday forecast high costs for the most ambitious clean energy plan in the nation, including a 28 percent rise in electricity rates and $115 billion in construction if the state wants to get a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.’
via California sees big costs to renewable power plan | Green Business | Reuters.
Jun 12 – China's wind power generation has doubled in the last year as the country looks for greener ways to wean itself off cheap, but dirty, coal.
via Wind power makes strides in China | Video | Reuters.com.
BONN, Germany — U.N. climate delegates completed their first rough sketch of a new global warming agreement Friday, a draft replete with gaps and competing ideas that await decisions by political leaders.
via Environmentalists: UN Talks Too Slow, “We’re Losing Time”.
‘Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer D-Calif. that her committee can’t publicly disclose the location of coal ash dumps across the country.’
via Coal Ash Spills Too Dangerous To Reveal To Public, Says DHS VIDEO.
‘BONN, Germany — China wants the United States to deliver top of the line technology as part of a new global warming agreement, the chief U.S. climate negotiator said Thursday.’
‘As the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill moves forward in the House, Big Ag interest groups are circling their plows and sharpening their pitchforks. Some of the largest corporations in the agribusiness sector—including the GMO-and-herbicide giant Monsanto—are pushing to control how agriculture would fit into the bill’s cap-and-trade scheme.’
‘WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are calling for a hundred new nuclear power plants to be built in the next two decades as part of an energy plan they say is a better alternative than one championed by Democrats.’
via The Associated Press: House GOP offers nuclear-loaded energy bill.
‘China is planning a vast increase in its use of wind and solar power over the next decade and believes it can match Europe by 2020, producing a fifth of its energy needs from renewable sources, a senior Chinese official said yesterday.’
via China launches green power revolution to catch up on west | Environment | The Guardian.