Michael Giberson Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), co-sponsor of the proposed Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act, says if Congress and the President don’t act fast to enact the bill, as much as $20 billion in investment will be delayed or canceled and and more than 100,000 jobs lost. At the Environmental Economics blog, John Whitehead says, “Show …
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Michael Giberson From Viet Nam News: Ceiling prices set in accordance with each power station’s capacity technology and costs have been suggested for Viet Nam’s proposed competitive energy market in Viet Nam. British energy-industry consultant Campbell Carr made the proposal at a seminar to discuss the design of a competitive power market in Ha Noi …
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Michael Giberson A few scattered stories: In testimony to the US House and Senate Joint Economic Committee on Wednesday, Fed chief Ben Bernanke said, “the one small silver lining” in $100/barrel oil is that “a lot of alternatives become economically feasible.” In fact, well before $200/barrel, biking to work would become feasible for a lot …
Michael Giberson On Monday night, Republicans in the Kansas House voted to apply a tax of $37 per ton of CO2 emitted from coal fired power plants for emissions in excess of 110 percent of the statewide average. Proceeds from the tax would be distributed to the large coal plants in the state with the …
Michael Giberson I was out in West Texas this past weekend and had a little spare time available Saturday morning. What better for an energy policy geek to do than visit the American Wind Power Center in Lubbock, Texas? The AWPC is a museum showing off about 150 years of windmill technology. Most of the …
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