03.03.2010 | Eric Lindeman
For its third round of solicitations, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy is making available $100 million in Recovery Act funding for innovative technological approaches to grid-scale electricity storage, power conversion, and air conditioning...
02.22.2010
A total of 17 lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s December 2 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health. Three states, industry...
02.16.2010 | Chris Holly
A group of 13 Republican lawmakers and 17 southeastern companies, transportation and agriculture associations last week asked a federal court to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public...
02.13.2010 | Connie Lausten, P.E.
Not all biofuels are equal, but we need them all. Several tax credits crucial to the biofuels industry expired at the end of 2009—biodiesel, renewable diesel and alternative fuels. Although there have been a number of articles about the dire situation...
02.09.2010 | Johnathan Rickman
Arguing they are an unconstitutional state attempt to usurp regulation of interstate commerce, a coalition of trucking and refining industry groups filed suit February 2 in federal court seeking to block California’s first-in-the-nation low-carbon fuel...
02.08.2010 | Johnathan Rickman and Eric Lindeman
Setting an overall 2010 volume standard for renewable fuels at 12.95 billion gallons, the Environmental Protection Agency last week issued revisions to its Renewable Fuel Standard that, for the first time, established volume standards for specific categories...
02.02.2010 | Chris Holly
In a budget proposal that seeks to carry out the Obama administration’s pledge to speed deployment of clean energy technology, the Department of Energy this week unveiled a fiscal year 2011 budget that boosts renewable energy and energy efficiency...
01.26.2010 | Chris Holly
In what is seen in some quarters as a political tactic, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) last week introduced a resolution on the Senate floor that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing Clean Air Act rules to limit emissions of the...
01.26.2010 | Chris Holly
A sizable majority of Americans, both Republican and Democrat, back policy approaches such as cap-and-trade legislation as a way to create jobs, improve the economy and strengthen national security, new research by controversial Republican pollster Frank...
01.26.2010 | Eric Lindeman
The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will invest up to a total of $12 million in four companies to support development of early stage solar energy technologies and help them advance to commercial scale, Energy Secretary...
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