Let’s take a snapshot of the legislative landscape as it relates to nuclear energy: Last week, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) introduced a climate change bill that includes a strong nuclear title, something missing from the initial draft of the Kerry-Boxer bill. Take-away phrase: mini-Manhattan projects, which they use to refer to research initiatives such as nuclear reprocessing...
U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell recalled a meeting in February with President Barack Obama in which he said he would no longer kick problems down the road. So the president and Congress will not kick issues like health-care reform and energy policy down the road any longer, Boswell said. The decorated Vietnam veteran [...]
Vice President Al Gore is back in our beautiful corner of the country this week to talk about his new book Our Choice , which is a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth , although Gore wrote The Assault on Reason in between. Our Choice focuses on solutions to the climate crisis, rather than trying to explain the climate crisis (which Gore's 2006 book and Academy Award-winning documentary film did do rather...
Like Barack Obama, Sarah Palin has written a book. Unlike Barack Obama, Sarah Palin rarely knows what she's talking about. When Rachel Maddow does a major segment on Palin's bizarre interpretation of her own history, there's not much to add. I only mention Palin because she is proof of concern raised recently in a Newsweek article by Daniel Lyons when he wonders aloud whether the U.S. is doomed to...
The fellow for Project 21, a black conservative organization, writes : "It’s time to kick those expensive kicks, black Americans. Nike and Timberland aren’t working in your best interests. Saying goodbye won’t be hard to do since these companies want to eventually make it impossible to afford their shoes. Nike and Timberland are affiliated with the Business for Innovative Climate...
In the above video, World Focus Producer John Larson reports from Copenhagen, Denmark on how changing lifestyles, taxing energy and subsidizing alternative technologies have reduced the country's dependency on oil and created thousands of new job. In just over 30 years, Denmark has gone from being a net importer of energy to net exporter. Denmark had the political will to decide that on economy built...
San Francisco's new energy policy, CleanEnergySF conflicts with that of its 8th District Congressional Representative, for the past 23 years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi is one of the nation's leading advocates of nuclear power, who, in 2007, described herself as born again nuclear and supported that year's failed attempt to overturn California's ban on new nuclear plant construction
From Yuval Levin, What Coattails? Why Right-of-Center Candidates are Succeeding in the Age of Obama ": All year, leading democrats from the president on down have argued that the Republican Party is in the midst of a catastrophic civil war. You know the story. Successive election defeats have narrowed the GOP's ideological range, and now an open struggle is afoot for control of its voice and agenda....
China has no environmental concerns, no EPA, no controls. China buys into U.S. off-shore oil leases. Mark Tapscott, Beltway Confidential "If the administration approves the deal, it will be more vulnerable to charges that the White House is being careless with U.S. national security issues in the energy sector, and that it is putting the interests of a foreign power before those of U.S. energy...
With more than 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs lost since the beginning of this recession in December 2007, a new report says developing a clean energy economy in the United States could create some 850,000 new manufacturing jobs. The report , “Building the Clean Energy Assembly Line: How Renewable Energy Can Revitalize U.S. Manufacturing and the American Middle Class,” by the Blue Green...
I was writing something pretty close to this and decided to link to the Great Orange Satan. KOS : There will be much number-crunching tomorrow, but preliminary numbers (at least in Virginia) show that GOP turnout remained the same as last year, but Democratic turnout collapsed. This is a base problem, and this is what Democrats better take from tonight: If you abandon Democratic principles in a bid...
D oes President Obama match up to Candidate Obama? Did the rise of the oceans begin to slow and our planet begin to heal? We asked friends of National Review Online to grade the president’s first year on the job. LEE EDWARDS Unlike Candidate Obama, President Obama is not so much audacious as cautious, not uplifting but enervating in his rhetoric, not non-partisan but partisan in his politics,...
There will be much number-crunching tomorrow, but preliminary numbers (at least in Virginia) show that GOP turnout remained the same as last year, but Democratic turnout collapsed. This is a base problem, and this is what Democrats better take from tonight: If you abandon Democratic principles in a bid for unnecessary "bipartisanship", you will lose votes. If you water down reform in favor...
The plausibility of using small nuclear reactors in situations where a full-scale reactor might be seen as overkill is an idea pushed, as you would imagine, by vendors with such reactors in their portfolios. In fact, a group of those vendors travelled around Washington during the early fall months scaring up as much interest in their wares to anyone who wanted to listen. Not just think tanks, but the...
Are you willing to go to jail to protest the burning of coal ? Next week, on March 2, the first major U.S. protest on global warming is scheduled to take place. The protest is organized by Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network and is scheduled to target the Capitol Power Plant in downtown Washington D.C. Endorsing the protest are the outspoken critics of fossil fuels, Al Gore and James Hansen
Recent developments in the biofuel story have given no guarantee that a biofuel industry will be set up in time to help the building environmental crisis (in fact many new reports say biofuels are making it worse); nor will it be able support a new direction for America’s handling of oil rich nations any time soon. Any kind of fuel production affects many areas of our global society; in America, both
Energy efficiency has been part of the American lexicon since 1978 when the Energy Policy Act was first enacted. Since then, energy efficient homes and increased use of renewable energy resources have become the norm in states like New York and...