Archive for the ‘Energy Policy’ Category
Newt Gingrich Secures All Important “Barrens Chat” Vote with Key Chuck Norris Endorsement
Was he this much of a clown in the 70’s (Chuck, not Newt): For my wife, Gena, and I, we sincerely believe former Speaker Newt Gingrich is the answer to most of those questions and deserves our endorsement and vote. We agree with our friend and governor of the great state of Texas, Rick Perry, [...]
January 20, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
51 Comments
Posted in: Energy Policy, Gamer Dork, Teabagger Stupidity
Pipeline Execution
When President Obama makes his February decision on the Keystone XL pipeline deal, which Republicans forced as part of the last hostage crisis, he might want to note that a similar pipeline is getting some bad press up in America’s Hat: Environmentalists accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government of taking the side of big oil [...]
January 10, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 43 Comments
Posted in: Energy Policy
Elected conservatives outsource all their work to corporations, leaving me wondering what they do all day
Excellent all-in-one-place piece on ALEC in ProPublica: This week, both the Los Angeles Times and The Nation put the spotlight on a little-known but influential conservative nonprofit that creates “model” state legislation that often make its way into law. The organization has helped craft some of the most controversial—and industry-friendly—legislation of recent years. The American [...]
July 16, 2011
· Kay · 33 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Education, Energy Policy, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives, Grifters Gonna Grift
Kicking our fossil fuel addiction
I had no idea this was happening. Good news for us treehuggers: Plunging prices and booming investments are beginning to reshape the energy market, according to a couple of reports that were released this week. A report produced on behalf of Bloomberg says that investments in renewable energy have gone up by roughly a third [...]
July 10, 2011
· Libby Spencer · 46 Comments
Posted in: Energy Policy, Science and Technology
Because, Because…Soshalism, That’s Why!
Not much blogging to come (will anyone be able to tell the difference?—ed.) this week, as I’m writing this from Doha, Qatar, where the biennial World Conference of Science Journalists is about to begin. But as my body adjusts to the eight hour time difference, I chanced across this piece in The New York Times, [...]
June 26, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 117 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Decline and Fall, Energy Policy
I have a 2008 Romney I’d like to sell you
Mitt Romney is in Michigan so I thought I’d read a Michigan newspaper and see how his campaign is coming. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins a swing through Michigan tonight with a dinner fund-raiser, followed by events in Birmingham and Grosse Pointe on Wednesday. Democratic activists were holding a sign-making event tonight in Detroit [...]
June 8, 2011
· Kay · 56 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2012, Energy Policy, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Good News For Conservatives, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Science and Technology, Teabagger Stupidity, When Everything Changed
Greasy Koch Fingerprints on Your Jacked-Up Fuel Bills
Via commentor Alex S., Lee Fan at ThinkProgress has a Special Report on “How Koch Became An Oil Speculation Powerhouse, From Inventing Oil Derivatives To Deregulating The Market“: In April, ThinkProgress caused a stir when we uncovered a series of Koch Industries corporate documents revealing the company’s role as an oil speculator. Like many oil [...]
June 6, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 48 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Energy Policy, Excellent Links, Kochsuckers, Republican Venality
Early Morning Open Thread: Ya Think?
From the Department of Obvious Conclusions: TOKYO — Japan will scrap a plan to obtain half of its electricity from nuclear power and will instead promote renewable energy and conservation as a result of its ongoing nuclear crisis, the prime minister said Tuesday. Naoto Kan said Japan needs to “start from scratch” on its long-term [...]
May 11, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 35 Comments
Posted in: Energy Policy, Excellent Links, Foreign Affairs, Open Thread
Your Forever Plant
The Times has a good run-down of the mediocrity of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which probably isn’t as bad as Japan’s toothless, brainless agency, but is far from the strict regulator it should be: Situated on the banks of the Connecticut River, the 39-year-old Vermont Yankee, whose reactor is similar in design to the stricken [...]
May 8, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 33 Comments
Posted in: Energy Policy
Only Nixon Could Go To China
This, something pretty much every liberal the last few decades has proposed, will be hailed as courage: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan called for ending oil subsidies Thursday, further complicating Republican efforts to stay on message about rising gas prices. The Wisconsin Republican told constituents at a Waterford, Wis., town hall meeting that he [...]
April 28, 2011
· John Cole · 40 Comments
Posted in: Energy Policy
It Takes a Village
There’s a good story in today’s New York Times about the cozy relationship between nuclear regulators and utility companies in Japan, with details about the way that a whistleblower who revealed issues at Fukushima Daiichi unit 1 was punished for what turned out to be true revelations. In Japan, the web of connections between the [...]
April 27, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 28 Comments
Posted in: Energy Policy, Foreign Affairs
Fukushima, Pennsylvania
ProPublica reports that Pennsylvania is limiting the ability of inspectors to cite operators of hydrofracking operations: The memos require that each of the hundreds of enforcement actions taken routinely against oil and gas operators in Pennsylvania each month now be approved by the department’s executive deputy secretary, John Hines. The memos are raising concerns that [...]
April 4, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 29 Comments
Posted in: Energy Policy
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood
Went to an after-work rally in Toledo last night to oppose the anti-union bill that is moving through the Ohio legislature. There was a steady cold rain and the turnout was still quite good. The gathering was near the intersection of two busy roads, and we got lots and lots of support from rush hour [...]
March 16, 2011
· Kay · 127 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Daydream Believers, Decline and Fall, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2012, Energy Policy, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism
Here We Are, Again
This came up during the debate on climate change legislation, and I haven’t seen it addressed. That I haven’t seen it addressed doesn’t mean much: I don’t follow environmental issues. I do know how debates degenerate, however, and how nuance gets lost, and I sometimes pal around with environmentalists. Ten moderate Senate Democrats from states [...]
March 12, 2011
· Kay · 131 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2012, Energy Policy, Uncategorized
A Real Predicament
In local news: West Virginia is at least $1 million short of the funds its regulators need to oversee drilling in the booming Marcellus shale natural gas field, the state’s environmental chief told lawmakers Tuesday. Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman asked the House Finance Committee to consider the hefty permit fee hikes his department seeks [...]
February 9, 2011
· John Cole · 46 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Energy Policy, Fucked-up-edness, Glibertarianism, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You
