This week the Senate took up a debate on a bill regarding Climate Change. The heart of the bill is a plan to CAP the production of greenhouse gases and, for the first time, force polluters to buy (TRADE) permits to emit carbon dioxide. Both presidential candidates have expressed support for the cap-and-trade concept that [...]
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Obama’s Climate Change Plan
With the Democratic National Committee convention in Denver last week, NuEnergen executives were able to attend various policy meetings regarding the Democratic plan for energy. Titled BARACK OBAMA: NEW ENERGY FOR AMERICA, the Democratic plan encompasses short, medium and long range solutions the administration wants to put forth for our growing list of issues. NuEnergen [...]
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North Pole is on Thin Ice
It’s interesting as to why some stories get traction in the mainstream media and why some don’t. In online science discussions, the fate of this years summer sea ice has been the focus of a significant debate of expert prediction skills. However, none of these efforts made it on to the Today program. Instead, a [...]
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Worldwide CO2 Market shows Dramatic Growth
Consulting firm Point Carbon indicated today that the global carbon market has generated almost as much money in the first half of 2008 as it did in all of 2007.
The company said 1.8 gigatons of CO2 equivalent was traded globally in the first half of this year, worth more than $59 billion US dollars, compared [...]
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Google and Renewable Energy
Every year the founders of Google write a Founders Letter and publish it. It’s meant to be an “off the cuff” look at the business and industry, what’s working, what’s not. You can read the entire letter here.
What is interesting in the letter is how this now very large, and very profitable company is [...]
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Global Warming - Who is Going to Pay?
Americans often tell pollsters they want to see the government “do something” about global warming. When we are asked what costs we are willing to bear, and for what actual benefit for the environment, support “to do something” on global warming evaporates. A new poll by the National Center for Public Policy Research asked Americans [...]
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NuEnergen Execs Meet with Colorado Governor
NuEnergen executives Kevin Hamilton and Sandy Hamilton recently met with Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to discuss the energy issues facing Colorado and the rest of the United States. Governor Ritter is helping the State of Colorado in charting a course for what he calls our “New Energy Economy” with his recent Colorado Climate Action Plan [...]
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The Pepsi Center “Goes Green”
On March 17th, perhaps the “greenest” day of the year, the Pepsi Center declared that it will be one of the greenest arena in the United States. Home to the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche, the Pepsi Center is located in Denver, Colorado and is owned by Kroenke Sports Enterprises (KSE). On Monday they [...]
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NYC Takes Lead on GHG Emission Reduction
We typically view New York City as a lumbering giant metropolis that has to continually address problems that occur within it’s infrastructure. Mayor Bloomberg has been instrumental in transforming the perceptions as of late with his forward thinking PLANYC2030 and his recent comments regarding a tax on Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emitters. He is insistent on [...]
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