Joseph J. Romm's Blog, page 1276
May 11, 2010
American Power Act to create millions of clean energy jobs, slash pollution and oil use, while boosting U.S. farmers and manufacturers - Bill "eliminates the possibility of market manipulation" and "from day one, two-thirds of revenues not dedicated to red
Kerry and Lieberman have apparently been waiting for a sign from above to release their climate and clean energy jobs bill, the American Power Act. Instead, the unmistakable message that we need to get off of dirty, unsafe fossil fuels came from an undersea volcano of oil unleashed by the hubris, recklessness, and arrogance of Big Oil.
You can read the leaked 21-page draft Section-by-Section description of the American Power Act here (big PDF). You can read the leaked 4-page "draft short...
I'll be on MSNBC's Countdown tonight
Keith Olbermann is scheduled to interview me at around 8:08 pm on the circular firing squad at the BP/Transocean/Halliburton hearing today.
Thoughts on messaging are always welcome.
Breaking: Climate bill has new drilling protections - Plus a higher starting floor price for carbon dioxide
The energy and climate bill Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) will unveil Wednesday will give states the right to veto offshore oil drilling in a neighboring state, according to sources briefed on the plan.
This is from the WP's Post Carbon blog. That confirms what I heard also.
The two Senators "tweaked the bill in a few ways to address concerns raised by" BP's Titanic oil disaster. Here are some more details on the bill, which is being introduced tomorrow:
It...
BP makes enough profit in four days to cover the costs of the oil disaster cleanup thus far
"As hopes dim for containing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico anytime soon" after a giant containment dome failed, the cost of cleaning up the spill will continue to rise. BP is financially responsible for the disaster, and President Obama wants to raise the cap on what the company is liable for, as cleanup costs have already surpassed the current limit.
BP said yesterday that it had already spent $350 million on the spill response, and the company's stock has taken a big hit, but ...
Climate Progress is one of Guardian's "Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow"
The UK's Guardian has a piece on "the key people and organisations you should be following on Twitter if you're interested in climate change and the environment."
Climate Progress is atop the bloggers' list — Click here to join the other nearly 5,000 subscribers to CP tweets.
I'm also delighted to report that another CAP blogger is on the list: Julian L. Wong, "Useful links for anyone interested in China and climate change."
Now if you really love getting climate tweets, the Guardian has...
New Jersey-sized dead zone envelops Gulf Coast
Oh wait, that headline is based on a blog post I wrote 2 years ago. Doh!
Our ongoing efforts to wipe out sea life may lack the media-grabbing pizzazz of a Titanic oil spill, but it does not lack the punch. See, for instance, "Nature Geoscience study concludes ocean dead zones "devoid of fish and seafood" are poised to expand and "remain for thousands of years"). Or watch coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson's 18-minute TED talk, "How we wrecked the ocean":
If you have the stomach for it...
Connect the dots: Oil disaster in the Gulf and record-smashing floods in Tennessee
CP has been blogging about BP's Titanic oil disaster and the record-smashing TN rains. I'm pleased to have a guest post from Dominique Browning on those two subjects. She is author of the new book Slow Love. She writes regularly for The New York Times Book Review, Wired, and others. This is a repost from her monthly column for the Environmental Defense Fund website:
I went to Franklin, Tennessee for a visit that was supposed to end last Saturday, but I was marooned by flooding from the...
Energy and Environmental News for May 11: Reducing fossil energy use on the farm; Charging ahead with electric cars
Conventional agriculture production relies heavily on fossil fuels, particularly in its ability to provide energy at a low cost. However, the uncertain future of fossil fuel availability and prices point to need to explore energy efficiencies in other cropping systems.
Most of the U.S. Corn Belt relies on a two-year rotation of corn and soybean with heavy inputs of fertilizer, herbicides...
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