This Week In CCS News: AEP Is Bullish On West Virginia Test Project
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The great hope of those who want coal to remain at the center of our energy mix–CCS–received special attention this week from Mike Morris, head of American Electric Power, the nation’s largest utility. At a conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Morris touted the progress of AEP’s test carbon capture and sequestration project in West Virginia. The project, which is backed by Department of Energy funding, is now capturing and storing about 2 percent of the emissions from the New Haven coal-f…Read the full story on TreeHugger
California Mulls Cap-and-Dividend Program – Families Could Get $1000 Back Per Year
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Alternatives to the ascendant cap and trade method of setting a price on carbon and hopefully reducing greenhouse gas emission are slowly building. Example: The Wall Street Journal reports that a California state panel reviewing the best way to allocate funds from a carbon control plan set to begin in 2012 are considering giving it straight back to the people–a <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/is-cap-and-divi…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Houses Get Small (Sort Of) In Response to Recession
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Is it just the economy or is there a real change going on? Michael Phillips writes in the Wall Street Journal about how builders are offering smaller houses than they have in years. The Scarlett O’Hara stairs and two storey halls are out, and the plans are simpler, square-er, and way more efficient. Some might say that it is simply a response to the economy; as one commenter said ” In a down economy smaller houses sell, and in a good economy bigger houses sell. Unless we have all …Read the full story on TreeHugger
US and China Strike a Deal On Renewable Energy Information Sharing
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Presidents Obama and Hu Jintao made the wrong sort of news this past weekend when they dashed any hope of a binding treaty next month in Copenhagen. But today they made news for the right reasons, agreeing on a new partnership between their two nations–the biggest two polluters on the planet–to share information about renewable energy technolog…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Whole Foods CEO Defends Health Insurance Views, His Right to Speak, in New WSJ Interview
Treehugger has been closely following the saga of Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey since he published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying, among other things, that “A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intri…Read the full story on TreeHugger
“Buycott” at Whole Foods Organized in Support of John Mackey
Now we know the real reason John Mackey wrote that op-ed in the Wall Street Journal attacking the idea of universal health care. (See Whole Foods CEO Causes Scandal Over Anti-’Obamacare’ Article.) It was really just a very clever marketing ploy! Look at what is happening in St Louis: Huffington Post links us to the local Tea Party , which got a thousand people out to “buycott” the local Whole Foods and support …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Wind Power Financing Picks Up Again, Thanks to a Little Federal Push
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Despite a steady trickle of new wind power projects coming in over the past year since the recession set in, things haven’t exactly been going gangbusters in terms of financing. But as the Wall Street Journal points out today, that’s starting to change… and (gasp) it’s at least partly because of government inves…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Improving Efficiency at Washington’s Hydropower Projects Could Boost Output 3x More Than Building New Dams
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The environmental problems with large-scale hydropower are well documented, with small-scale hydro often seen as a more benign way to exploit the power of rivers for electricity. However, as the Wall Street Journal points out, when you start putting hundreds of small-scale hydropower projects together the impact builds, and wo…Read the full story on TreeHugger