Venezuela has extensive heavy oil reserves, and increasingly, no way of treating it. It’s not a feedstock that can just get thrown into any refinery. Platts Venezuelan correspondent Mery Mogollon discusses that […]
Bridge Out: Bombshell Study Finds Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Production Far Higher Than EPA Estimates
A major new study finds natural gas production leaks at least twice as much methane as EPA has estimated. Other recent studies find methane warms the Earth more than we thought, and […]
Mitigating Renewable Energy Risk
With the majority of people wanting more emphasis on domestic production of renewable energy what do wind and solar installation operators need to know if they are ramping up their production and […]
FERC Hands Down Key Decision; Solar Growth Explodes in October
Even though they were overshadowed by the Senate’s historic decision to eliminate the use of the filibuster when it comes to most Presidential nominees — the so-called “nuclear option” — there were some major […]
Warsaw warning: World on pace to miss already awful climate targets
Since putting some emissions reduction pledges (don’t call them commitments!) down on paper after the climate conference in Copenhagen, countries have had nearly four years to start building policies to meet the […]
EPA issues proposed rule for the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard
On November 15, 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the 2014 Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The RFS program, established by the Energy Policy Act of […]
Developed Countries Spent $35 Billion On International Coal Plants From 2007 to 2012
The three biggest financiers were Japan, the U.S., and Germany — though the U.S. has announced plans to end most of the investment. The post Developed Countries Spent $35 Billion On International […]
Shell Oil Self-Imposes Carbon Pollution Tax High Enough To Crash Coal, Erase Natural Gas’s Value-Added
Royal Dutch Shell includes a high carbon price when evaluating new projects. The $40 a metric ton price that Shell uses — if widely adopted — would reshape domestic and international energy […]
Solar Fee Defeated in Georgia Power Rate Case
Georgia’s solar energy businesses and consumers won an important victory yesterday with the state’s largest utility, Georgia Power, dropping a proposed solar customer charge after experiencing overwhelming Commission and staff disapproval. via […]
King Coal’s Climate Challenge
The latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conclude that we are quickly using up our carbon “budget” – the amount of carbon that we can afford to emit and […]
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