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Gas Prices Higher than Those a Year Ago… and Still Climbing
Cars in trafficThe national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $2.747, down a penny from last week’s price but still a full 18 cents more than it was during the same period in 2009.
Plagiarizing Colorado GOP Gubernatorial Candidate McInnis Says He’s ‘In it to win it.’
Republican candidate for Colorado Governor Scott McInnis said on his Facebook page on Thursday that he is “in it to win it” and has no plans to quit the race for governor despite revelations that he had plagiarized several pages of water policy writing as part of a paid research fellowship in 2005 and 2006.
Research Shows World’s Fisheries Management System Failing Miserably
Two new studies show that inadequate international fisheries management is threatening the future sustainability of high seas fisheries, fish populations and the health and stability of marine ecosystems.
Feds Release $151 Million for Game-Changing Energy Research
The Department of Energy today announced major funding for 37 “transformational” energy research projects.
What the Battle Over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Tells Us about Public Opinion and Climate Change Legislation
A study about attitudes toward drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and persuasion sheds some light on how conservationists might influence public opinion in favor of climate change legislation.
Obama’s Unprecedented Commitment to Science
President Barack Obama has reiterated his administration’s focus on science by promising a new level of commitment—one with the same intensity and urgency as that which put Americans on the moon—and stressing that “the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.”
Renewable Energy Has Created 90,000 Green Collar Jobs in Colorado
Speaking in Denver, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter said preliminary figures from a new report show that renewable energy has generated about 90,000 jobs directly and indirectly in Colorado. Addressing attendees of the second annual Colorado New Energy Economy Conference, Ritter said that Jefferson County alone has about 500 renewable energy companies. The Governor cited the [...]
NREL Announces Wind Energy R&D Projects
[From my post originally published at CleanTechnica on 6.3.2008] Houston, TX – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab has just announced three research and development partnerships with Siemens and the University Houston. NREL Director Dan Arvizu made the announcement at a press conference on Tuesday at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual [...]
DOE: Wind Can Provide 20% of Our Electricity by 2030
A report released on Monday by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) indicates that the U.S. could meet 20% of its electricity needs with wind energy by 2030. While achieving that goal is technically feasible, the report estimates it would require $197 billion in investments, especially in the infrastructure of interstate transmission. Unfortunately, the DOE [...]
Did CSU Name Their New ‘Clean Energy Supercluster’ Biz After an Oilfield Logistics Company?
One of my almae matres, Colorado State University has finally launched the business-end of its long-awaited renewable energy “supercluster.” The supercluster will serve as a clean tech incubator, moving research and development of clean energy and energy efficiency from the lab to the marketplace. CSU President Larry Penley joined Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and Colorado [...]
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