President Barack Obama’s remarks Friday at the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen: “Good morning. It is an honor for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. All of you would not be...
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China stands alone among the world’s leading vehicle producers in that it has seen substantial and continuous growth in its production level since 2000.  In 2005, North America and western Europe each produced more than three times as many vehicles as China.  By 2008, total U.S. production dropped by over 3.2 million units. A...
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The banks behind the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) – the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank – have pledged nearly one billion dollars  for a new Clean Technology Fund (CTF)  to accelerate global...
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Last week, West Virginia Governor signed a bill relating to the state’s Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act (AREP), House Bill 408D.    The bill includes provisions for the establishment of a REC tracking system. The bill requires the Public Service Commission to establish a system of tradable credits to verify and monitor the generation and...
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“While the details of a binding agreement may not be completely worked out in Copenhagen, it is more important than ever that participants send a strong, indicative and ambitious signal that can guide energy investment and policy decisions globally,” said Nobuo Tanaka, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today at the...
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U.S. forests and soils currently contain the equivalent of 50 years of carbon dioxide (CO2), but have sufficient capacity to store significantly larger quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere as a means to mitigate climate change, according to the findings of the first phase of a groundbreaking national assessment by scientists at the U.S....
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The U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is offering a second round of grants for innovative energy research projects that accelerate innovation in biofuels, electric vehicle batteries and carbon-capture technologies.
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And here it is . . . Framework for Climate Action and Energy Independence in the U.S. Senate Carbon pollution is altering the earth’s climate. The impacts have already been seen and felt throughout our country and around the world. Monday’s endangerment finding by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) underscores the importance of Congressional action...
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International pursuit of low carbon policies has the potential to create 20 million jobs between now and 2020 in low-carbon energy in eight of the world’s leading economies, according to a new study published today. “This report shows that the 93 heads of state meeting in Copenhagen don’t have to make a choice between jumpstarting...
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Two weeks ago, FirstEnergy Generation purchased rights to develop a Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) plant on a 92-acre site in Ohio.  The CAES site, a geologically stable underground cavern, which had previously been used as a limestone mine, will be used to store compressed air for use in generating electricity.  At utility scale, it can...
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