Monday, 13 February 2012

Groups fighting the Keystone Pipeline will march to the Senate today to deliver thousands of messages to stop it from voting for the project’s continuation, following an earlier denial from United States President Barack Obama. The Keystone project is the planned pipeline that will run through 1,700 miles of space, from Alberta, Canada to refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast. Its purpose is to transport up to 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day to those refineries. It will take about $7 billion
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012

The California Public Utilities Commission has approved modifications to Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s “smart metering” program which provides for an option for customers who do not want to have wireless smart meters in their homes to remain in or switch back to analog meters. PG&E’s “SmartMeter” program aims to install advanced meters throughout Northern and Central California that it says will allow customers to save on their utility bills by offering them more information and control
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

While a low-carbon economy may indeed be the United States’ future, an environmental lawyer believes that – in the case of both the push for the Keystone XL pipeline and renewables – people could be getting their timelines muddled.
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Monday, 30 January 2012

More than 60,000 solar jobs in the United States are in danger of being lost should a 100 percent tariff on solar photovoltaic cells and modules imported from China be imposed, a report by economic consultancy firm Brattle Group, as commissioned by the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, showed.
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Sunday, 29 January 2012

The California Air Resources Board unanimously approved late last week a sweeping package of laws – that combines the control of smog, soot and global warming gases with requirements for greater numbers of zero-emission vehicles – aimed at making the vehicle market cleaner.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

The White House is bent on launching a new investigative unit dedicated to looking into suspected unfair trade practices of other countries, singling out China. President Barack Obama, in his third State of the Union address delivered Tuesday night, said he is establishing a new Trade Enforcement Unit which will be tasked to investigate countries that unfairly subsidize exports and ship pirated goods to the U.S.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

United States President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union Address yesterday, said the “promise of clean energy” is still alive, but he will need some help from Congress to move things forward. Mr. Obama, whose speech talked about making a U.S. economy that’s “built to last,” said some progress on the “clean energy” front has been made in the country, although more needs to be done especially in terms of government support.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

General Motor Company’s Chevy Volt has been deemed safe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after a months-long investigation confirmed that the plug-in hybrid’s lithium battery pack is not prone to catching fire. The N.H.T.S.A. started an investigation last November 25 after a side-impact collision test caused a Volt to catch fire three weeks after a crash test.
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Monday, 23 January 2012

New York-based Verdant Power, Inc.’s planned 1-megawatt tidal energy project in the East Channel of New York’s East River was issued the first pilot license of its kind in the state by the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Thursday, 19 January 2012

The United States Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration has started an investigation into whether or not China and Vietnam are illegally subsidizing wind towers and dumping them on the U.S. market.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Harnessing the power of the waves and the tides along the coastal United States can provide approximately 1,420 terawatt-hours of energy a year or 15 percent of the nation’s energy needs by 2030. This is the finding of the United States Department of Energy which released two nationwide resource assessments of the energy potential of America’s wave and tidal resources.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Britain’s Public Accounts Committee is doubtful that utilities will pass on the benefits gained from a government plan to install smart meters in every home and building in the country by the end of the decade.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

A bill which includes hydrocarbon-based ethanol alongside those derived from renewable sources in the United States Renewable Fuel Standard was introduced yesterday at the House of Representatives. House Resolution 3773 or the proposed Domestic Alternative Fuels Act of 2012 authored by republican Texas Representative Pete Olson seeks to amend section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act.
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Sunday, 15 January 2012

United States Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. signed a state-federal partnership to expedite the processing of utility-scale solar energy projects and more than 130 renewable energy projects in the state.
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Thursday, 12 January 2012

Australia’s Clean Energy Act 2011, commonly known as its carbon tax, has formally received Royal Assent. The bill, passed by Parliament in November last year, received the Royal Assent along with 21 others that are part of Australia’s Clean Energy Future Legislative Package. The administration of the Clean Energy Act 2011 will now start on April 2, in preparation for the introduction of a carbon price set at 23 Australian dollars a ton on July 1.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The United States Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday made public the list of the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in America, the first release of such data through the country’s national GHG reporting program.
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Monday, 02 January 2012

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a restraining order on the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that was set to start last January 1. The E.P.A. directive requires utilities to adhere to stricter limits on nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide that cause soot and smog.
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Sunday, 01 January 2012

Britain recorded around 2.5 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) of companies’ planned investment in renewable energy projects so far this financial year as the country works toward creating more jobs and meeting a European Union goal of getting 15 percent of energy from low-carbon sources by 2020.
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, we review policies that have shaped and influenced this year’s renewable energy path. Every initiative, every project, wherever it may be throughout the world, had and will always have an impact on the earth’s status on where we are now as a global community, and would markedly determine how we will be able to survive and ride out whatever challenges are in store for us, emerging as victors in the campaign for a cleaner and greener world.
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

The United States Department of the Interior approved the construction of Iberdrola Renewables’ 186-megawatt Tule Wind Power Project in the In-Ko-Pah Mountains of San Diego County, California, making it the first to be approved among the five priority wind projects for public lands agreed on by secretary Ken Salazar and then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009.
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