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Dutch assessment of IPCC: "Overall the summary conclusions are considered well founded and none were found to contain any significant errors." - Dutch foresee much higher sea-level-rise risk than IPCC -- and urge IPCC to "to pay attention to 'worst-case s

Our findings do not contradict the main conclusions of the IPCC on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability related to climate change. There is ample observational evidence of natural systems being influenced by climate change on regional levels. The negative impacts under unmitigated climate change in the future pose substantial risks to most parts of the world, with risks increasing at higher global average temperatures.

The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) examined the...

Bipartisan economists: Legislation Beats Regulation

The president has called for bold legislative action to create a clean energy economy. It would be a tragic mistake if this legislation did not include the broadest possible carbon pricing signal….

It would indeed be regrettable if Members of Congress, who universally prefer carbon markets over command-and-control regulation, could not enact a bill that spares us such regulation and begins to solve the climate problem.

Those are the opening and closing sentences of a Roll Call op-ed

U.S. taxpayers paid BP to lease Deepwater Horizon rig — which was incorporated in a foreign country for the purpose of avoiding the U.S. corporate tax - BP's tax deduction was "more than $225,000 a day"

Transocean, the company that owns the failed Deepwater Horizon rig that caused the Gulf oil spill, used well-known tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland to lower its U.S. corporate tax rate by almost 15 points. And, as TP reports, due to a break in the U.S. tax code, BP was also allowed to write off the rent it paid to Transocean on its own tax bill, saving it hundreds of thousands of dollars per day:

The owner, Transocean, moved its corporate headquarters from Houston to the...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...