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"If you cannot measure it; You cannot improve it." -- Lord Kelvin Consistent with its mission to "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google , whose climate change-related efforts I've blogged about previously , is trying to help...
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Further to my previous posts , excerpted below are the recommendations that Paul Joskow (energy expert, MIT economist and current president of the Alfred P Sloan Foundationn) recently made in a speech at the National Press Club : What is to be done? We need to stop dealing with the electric power sector...
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I believe that a key problem - and thus a key opportunity - that our country faces is over-regulation and misregulation of the electric power sector. Regulatory reform in this area is a middle ground, both for enviros and those whose principle concerns are economic liberty and healthy markets. As I noted...
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A hodge-podge of state and federal regulations is keeping costs high and interfering with the development of competitive power markets. Paul L. Joskow , current President of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation and former Head of the MIT Department of Economics (now on leave) and former Director of the MIT...
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David Talbot , chief correspondent for the MIT Technology Review , has an excellent, long piece in the January/February online issue that explores some the of intra- and inter-state regulatory hurdles that frustrate both the expansion of renewable power and a truly free power market. I'd like to...
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A post on the Wall Street Journal`s enviro blog, Environmental Capital , reports on one disgruntled reaction to a recent school play called “Santa Goes Green” , and reports on a new children`s book (and website) by the same name. The post closes with the sarcastic note, "No word yet...
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Just in time for last Sunday's readings at Advent liturgies of Isaiah 40:4, on December 2 the White House and EPA approved the final issuance by the Department of the Interior of industry-backed changes in the 25-year-old stream "buffer zone" rule . The revised rule, which the NYT describes...
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More from the National Review 's "Planet Gore" corner . My reaction? While we do need investments in power transmission infrastructure , do it with your own money, T. Boone . While I, along with many others, could support a rebated carbon tax that would spur investments in energy efficiency...
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The New York Times has an interesting article that points out how the use of new wind and solar capacity is being hobbled by power distribution limitations , which limits result in part from the reluctance of state regulators to approve projects that might lead local power producers to seek higher returns...
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... with the federal government, state and union all firmly in the pocket of coal firms. This seems to be a classic case, on a huge scale, of the difficulties individual property owners and communities face when confronting clearly wrongful acts by large corporations with deep pockets - and how easily...