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Obama Touts Clean Energy Achievements

President Obama delivered a speech against a backdrop of solar panels at Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base on Wednesday.

Speaking at Nellis Air Force base in Nevada, home to the nation’s largest solar electric installation, President Obama hailed the accomplishments of the economic stimulus package on Wednesday, placing special emphasis on clean energy.

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Climate Bill Could Override Regional Efforts

By Kate Galbraith

Tucked deep into Tuesday’s hefty climate bill draft is an innocuous-sounding sentence:

‘‘Notwithstanding section 116, no State or political subdivision thereof shall implement or enforce a cap that covers any capped emissions emitted during the years 2012 through 2017.”

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Saudi Minister Urges Caution on Renewable Energy

Fears about energy security, and last year’s oil price spike, have sparked a serious push for renewable energy in the United States, the world’s largest oil consumer.

The trend is apparently making the world’s largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia, nervous.

Speaking at a major energy conference earlier this month, Ali Al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, offered an impassioned defense of oil, which he called “an enabler of progress and prosperity.” He cautioned that the current economic crisis — and the uncertainties over future oil consumption — could force producers to trim their supplies, and hence could cause a new price shock.

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Ontario Introduces Green Stimulus Funds

With the province reeling from steep manufacturing employment declines, the Ontario government introduced a $24 billion stimulus budget on Thursday that includes $593 million in green-economy spending, as well as $2.6 billion for transit projects, mostly in the Greater Toronto region.

While Ontario’s 1.1 percent year-over-year job decline through January 2009 is well below the rate in the United States of 2.9 percent, the province’s export-oriented manufacturing sector has contracted by 11.1 percent, comparable to losses felt in states such as Indiana and Ohio.

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Cape Wind Navigates Shifts in Market

The controversial and long-delayed Cape Wind project — which could become the first offshore wind farm in the United States — is inching forward.

The next milestone is a decision by the Interior Department about whether to issue a lease for the project (something that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar discussed during an interview with The New York Times last week).

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Study Forecasts 297,000 Green Jobs

Establishing standards for the amount of the nation’s energy to come from renewables will create lots more jobs like these, a new study says.

The debate over the potential for green jobs creation in this country continues.

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Salazar Talks Guns, Parks and Solar Power

In an interview last Friday with The New York Times, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar promised “aggressive” pursuit of renewable energy projects on public lands, but provided no firm date for his department’s highly anticipated decision on the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts .

“From my point of view, I am not going to let political issues stand in the way of us moving forward with an energy program in the offshore,” he said.

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E.P.A. Proposal Calls Greenhouse Gases a Danger to the Public

The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a proposal to the White House that would label carbon dioxide a danger to public welfare — a key precursor to regulating greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants.

The long-awaited finding, sent to the Office of Management and Budget, stems from a 2007 Supreme Court decision in which the agency was found to have the authority to regulate emissions that contribute to global warming.

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Energy Department Issues First Renewable-Energy Loan Guarantee

The Energy Department has tentatively awarded its first alternative-energy loan guarantee, breaking a four-year logjam in the federal loan program.

The $535 million loan guarantee will go to Solyndra Inc., which said it would use the money to expand its production of photovoltaic systems at its facilities in Fremont, Calif. The company said the federal loan guarantee would cover roughly 75 percent of the project costs and would ultimately produce thousands of new construction, manufacturing and installation jobs.

Once the panels are installed and producing power, the company said, they will generate up to 15 gigawatts of electricity and save some 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

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Advocates - Cash Is Critical for Climate Deal

How much money should the rich world be willing to put up to entice the developing world to accept some form of limits on their emissions? And how soon should the rich world put its offer on the table?

Those questions came no closer to being answered on Friday during a meeting of European Union officials — much to the fury of green politicians in the European Parliament and several environmental and antipoverty groups, including Oxfam, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and WWF.

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Michael Steele: ‘We Are Not Warming’

Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said we live on a cooling planet.

The Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steele, has weighed in on climate change.

In a March 6 radio appearance that is only now percolating through the blogosphere, Mr. Steele apparently fielded a skeptic’s question about global warming. As transcribed by The Huffington Post, a liberal site, Mr. Steele thanked the questioner and replied this way:

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American Biodiesel Makers Reeling

The American biodiesel industry is hurting, and it shows.

Last week Imperium Renewables, one of the country’s biggest biodiesel refiners, cut 24 employees — which according to the Seattle Times amounts to a majority of the staff at its plant in Washington state.

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Solar Industry Posts Strong Growth in 2008

Installing solar panels in Colorado. The solar industry grew dramatically in 2008 — but the recession is hitting it hard.

Solar energy capacity in the United States grew by 17 percent in 2008, according to a preliminary report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association.

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Big Oil Buys Struggling Ethanol Maker

Lately it’s been nothing but bad news for the ethanol industry. Ethanol prices have been dropping, gasoline consumption is down, political support is flagging, and dozens of plants around the country are idle or producing well below capacity.

But suddenly there is some good news from an unexpected quarter. Valero Energy, the country’s biggest independent refiner, is going to buy seven ethanol plants from bankrupt VeraSun Energy for $477 million.

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An Unusual Plan to Offset Carbon Taxes

A carbon tax does not exist yet in this country (well, except in Boulder, Colo.). But governments and businesses are preparing for the possibility of such a tax — sometimes in unusual ways.

Earlier this month, The Associated Press reported that Tennessee had managed to attract two solar manufacturers in part by agreeing to pay their portion of any future carbon tax.

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Fast Buses vs. Light Rail - You Decide

Cleveland’s new HealthLine rapid bus system is top o’ the line, but can this sort of public transit really compete with light rail systems?

In thinking about expanding public transport in big cities, light rail and subway extensions usually come to mind first. But “bus rapid transit,” or B.R.T. — a model successfully implemented in cities from Bogota to Los Angeles — is gaining currency.

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Despite Gloom, Promising Clean-Tech Trends

In 2009, long-distance transmission lines will be in high demand to connect renewable resources in rural areas to population centers, according to a new report.

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Boulder Considers Carbon Tax Increase

The city of Boulder, Colo., is considering an increase in its carbon tax — though that likely won’t be enough to meet greenhouse goals.

The first city in the United States to introduce a carbon tax may have to raise it in order to meet emissions-reduction targets.

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E.P.A. Proposes Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a rule that would require a broad range of industries to tally and report their greenhouse gas emissions.

The move was hailed by environmentalists as an important precursor to regulating greenhouse gas emissions, as the Obama administration is expected to do.

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How to Distribute $646 Billion in Carbon Market Revenues?

Should revenues from any potential carbon market in the United States be used to help preserve endangered ecosystems elsewhere?

Under a cap-and-trade system, polluters buy permits, usually from government authorities, to compensate for their emissions. Such a system would raise hundreds of billions of dollars in an economy the size of the United States.

So, what should governments do with that money?

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