Golly, I love global warming. This spring and early summer was the coolest and wettest since we moved to our current western Maryland farm 20 years ago. My pastures are…
Power
Monthly Issue | September 1, 2009
Although the precise contours of the U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) regulatory framework have not been finalized, the need for some form of carbon accounting is becoming widely acknowledged as necessary…
In a judicial rejection of a major Bush administration air quality regulation, a federal court this summer struck down key provisions of a 2007 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule allowing…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) faces severe management challenges, according to a new report from the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). The July 2009 report (PDF) concluded that…
The U.S. economic downturn has hit the bottom line of New Orleans–based Entergy Corp. and its major non-utility nuclear generating company, Entergy Nuclear, which operates 10 nuclear units at eight…
Stung by falling demand for power and roughly a billion dollars in potential cleanup costs from December’s massive coal ash spill, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has announced that it…
The buzzword most recently associated with employee satisfaction was “engagement.” As recently as two years ago we were writing about the impending talent drain, as boomers would be leaving the…
The world’s war on carbon emissions isn’t going well. In just six months, the UN sponsored Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change will seek to launch a worldwide anti-carbon strategy with…
With Senate committees now considering versions of the expensive climate-change bill narrowly approved by the House of Representatives, it’s time for the country to take a fresh look at nuclear…
Concerns about energy independence and global warming have generated careless and counterproductive thinking on Capitol Hill. One glaring example? Efforts to increase the use of cellulosic biofuels—mandated in the Energy…