Predicting Sea Level Rise - The Arctic Council Raises the Ante
Last Thursday Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and other prominent diplomats signed the first ever treaty under the auspices of the Arctic Council; specifically, the member nations addressed Arctic...
View ArticleGifford v. USGBC - Dismissed (But Not on the Merits)
One of the more infuriating things about lawyers is that often, if they do their job right, their client wins and no one else benefits from it. This is what happened Monday before Judge Sand in the...
View ArticleDamascus Citizens for Sustainability Attack Marcellus Shale Gas
No, this is not jihad or the last gasp of a d esperate despot. Instead, it is a citizens group taking on the government and seeking to compel the completion of environmental impact statements (EISs)...
View ArticleRenewable Fuels Take Off - Algae Arrives and Certiorari Denied
Yesterday was a good day for renewable fuels enthusiasts and not because someone figured out how to make ethanol cocktails from pond scum. In Houston American renewable fuel use literally took off on...
View ArticlePlugging in Electric Vehicles May Raise IQs
It's not Gone with the Wind or Harry Potter, but an article just published in the public health journal, Health Affairs, is worth picking up, if only to start you thinking. In Six Climate...
View ArticleTravails of A123, Fisker and Ener1 Don't UnPlug Nissan CEO Ghosn at New York...
Imagine an industry. Let’s make it a high technology industry. And we’ll make it risky. It will be a new technology, linked to other new technologies. We’ll have over a dozen companies in this...
View ArticleClash of the (Electric Vehicle Charging Station) Titans: ECOtality v. NRG
What do you get when the beneficiary of “the largest public/private federal transportation electrification grant provided by the U.S. Department of Energy” concludes that “one of the country’s largest...
View ArticleRio+20 Disappoints But Does Renewable Energy Need an International Treaty to...
Rio+20 wrapped up yesterday. The moniker derives from the twentieth anniversary of the Earth Summit, the 1992 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which was held in Rio de Janeiro....
View ArticleA Tale of Two Credibilities: Hurricane Sandy and Recent Extreme Weather Reports
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. In North America, anyway. As Hurricane Sandy looms over the Eastern seaboard, we thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at two recent...
View ArticleNative Village of Kivalina Files Its Petition for Certiorari - A Five-Year...
One day short of five years since the case was originally filed, on February 25, 2013 the plaintiffs in Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp. attempt once more to get out of the starting...
View ArticleSome Real Numbers About Transitioning a Coal Plant to a Solar Farm
Power density will be on display this morning in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Virtually anyway. There is a groundbreaking for a 5.8 MW solar farm beginning at 10:30. This is wonderful news. The old,...
View ArticleOffshore Wind = Onshore Jobs
Offshore wind. It’s a renewable energy revolution blowing through the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic states. A facility is operating off Block Island. The first facility in federal waters (a small...
View ArticleBreezing with Terabytes: Offshore Wind and Big Data
The Business Network for Offshore Wind threw me a curve yesterday. Big Data, AI & Blockchain was the name of the conference held in Boston. What does that have to do with offshore wind? As it...
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