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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board Chair Nominated to Head the NRC

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - By Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - May. 24 (Breaking News) - President Barack Obama today named Allison Macfarlane, chair of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, as his choice to lead the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Macfarlane also served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

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HANDS OFF APPALACHIA!: Occupy MTR Investor USB

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - May. 04 (Special Report) - May Day, of course, originally commemorated Chicago's 1886 the Haymarket Massacre, when, during a general strike for the eight hour workday, an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they dispersed a public meeting, and police fired on workers, killing several demonstrators and resulting in the deaths of several police officers, largely from friendly fire. Mayday, of course, is also "mayday" used as a distress signal for aviators because it approximates the French term "m'aider", meaning "come help me!"

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Who to blame for the price at the pump? Tough to say

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Molly Moorhead - Apr. 29 (Fact Check) - The price of gas is determined by a litany of complex and shifting factors (Brent derivatives, anyone?), few of which you’ll hear mentioned in :30-second political ads. But politicians are interested less in cause, more in effect. The effect in this case: your anger.

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New solar cells are more efficient

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Photonics Spectra - By Laura Marshall - Apr. 17 (News Report) - The new hybrid cell absorbs red as well as blue light to boost the electrical current. A typical solar cell generates a single electron for each photon captured. But by adding the organic semiconductor pentacene, the solar cells can generate two electrons for every photon from the blue light spectrum. This could enable the cells to capture 44 percent of the incoming solar energy.

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The spark that ignited a fire

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

durangoherald.com - By Heather Scofield - Apr. 01 (News) - The Southern Ute Indian Tribe is credited with leading the way for Native American tribes around the nation to develop and manage potential energy resources.

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As Fukushima Worsens, US Approves New Nukes

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Despite reports this week that the Fukushima nuclear situation may be even worse than previously thought, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given approval today for two combined licenses for two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, only the second time in the last three decades that new nuclear plants have been approved in the nation. read ...

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More Pipeline Piffle (And An Alaskan Absurdity)

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Mar. 31 (News) - The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the pipeline “could have brought 700,000 barrels of oil to the market

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Santorum-boosting PAC Slams Romney, Obama

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Robert Farley - Mar. 17 (Fact Check) - Two new TV ads from a pro-Rick Santorum super PAC attack Mitt Romney and President Obama on Republican hot button issues: debt, taxes and oil. But the ads mislead on several fronts.

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What's Happening in the Persian Gulf Explained

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Adam Weinstein, Hamed Aleaziz - Jan. 03 (Special Report) - The basics: Iran and the United States appear to be heading for a showdown in the Persian Gulf. Amid already-high tensions over Iran's advancing nuclear program, the US has imposed harsh new economic sanctions on the regime in Tehran and begun to move se

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Gingrich On Climate Change

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Dec. 07 (Fact Check) - Newt Gingrich went too far when he claimed that “I’ve never favored cap-and-trade.” It’s true he’s never favored the approach taken by Democrats, but he said in 2007 that he would “strongly support” cap-and-trade if combined with “a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions”.

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Fact-checking the Chamber of Commerce

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair - Dec. 07 (Fact Check) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has begun its "voter education" drive, running ads that attack Democrats and boost Republicans. The blitz is beginning in Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington, including this ad against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. PolitiFact Ohio checked the ad's claim that Brown "voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes" and rated it Mostly False.

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Flipping Through DNC Playbook on Romney

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Brooks Jackson, D’Angelo Gore, Scott Blackburn, Lalita Clozel - Dec. 01 (Fact Check) - The Democratic National Committee casts Mitt Romney as an untrustworthy flip-flopper in a lengthy Web video, but pads a long list of examples with some falsehoods and distortions. It's true that Romney has changed or modified his position on some major issues -- including abortion, a federal assault weapons ban and Reaganomics, as the DNC says. But the video strains the truth ... More >>

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GOP’s Phantom Job Losses

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - Nov. 22 (News) - Ooops! Republicans — eager to show that President Obama’s oil and gas drilling policies “cost jobs” — have been using a number they now admit was more than three times too high. Even after they corrected their error (after we pointed it out), they started using a figure that is … More >>

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Bill Clinton: Solar and wind energy are "both cheaper than nuclear right now."

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Nov. 11 (Fact Check) - During a Nov. 8, 2011, appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, former President Bill Clinton touted the prospects for adopting renewable energy. "Solar energy and wind energy ... would already be competitive with coal if you had to pay the extraneous costs of coal -- the health care costs and other things. And ... wind within two years and solar within five will be competitive in price with coal. They're both cheaper than nuclear right now."

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Gulf Oil Spill: Federal Report Released On BP Spill

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Harry R. Weber, Dina Cappiello - Sep. 14 (News Report) - A key federal report puts ultimate responsibility on BP for the catastrophic failures leading to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history and the deaths of 11 rig workers, especially regarding the cement seal that was put in place the day before the explosion that triggered the spill.

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Charles Scott Howard: The Miner Who Took On Big Coal

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Dave Jamieson - Sep. 14 (News Report) - On a July morning four years ago, Charles Scott Howard left his home in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky and drove his pickup truck 150 miles to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Lexington. A career coal miner, Howard was headed to the posh hotel to testify at a public hearing held by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), a regulatory arm of the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Donald Trump Angry Over Offshore Wind Farms Near Scotland Golf Course

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Tara Kelly - Aug. 12 (News Report) - According to Bloomberg, he also wrote in a recent email, “I am very disappointed that Scotland may allow the development of a wind power plant directly off Aberdeen’s beautiful coastline.”

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CVPS will merge with Green Mountain Power

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

vtdigger.org - By Anne Galloway - Jul. 12 (Breaking News) - The deal, if it is approved by shareholders and the Vermont Public Service Board, will result in the consolidation of CVPS and Green Mountain Power, which is already owned by Gaz Metro. The merger will create one large electric utility from the state’s two biggest power companies. The new entity, which will undergo a name change, will serve 70 percent of Vermont’s ratepayers, or 250,000 households.

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United States Hit With a Triple Nuclear Threat – How Dangerous is it?

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

dianuke.org - By Michio Kaku - Jul. 02 (News Report) - The Los Alamos fire is an immediate problem, with forest fires raging at its doorstep... there are at least 6 metric tons worth of plutonium used in the weapons program stored there. Of immediate concern is Area G, containing up to 30,000 fifty five gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated nuclear waste. These drums are not secured, but are simply stored above ground in an ordinary building and the fire is about 3 miles from these drums.

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Speculating About Oil

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Power Line - By John Hinderaker - Jun. 07 (News Analysis) - Again, what we are talking about here is a "risk premium" arising from events in the Middle East--events which presumably were not engineered by American oil companies. ThinkProgress's report on oil speculation is riddled with errors, many of them howlers. That web site's basic problem is that its writers are neither intelligent nor experienced in business. Therefore, they are utterly unqualified to write about topics like commodity pricing. In this instance, however, ThinkProgress's conduct is worse than incompetent: it released a report that tried to blame "speculators" for the current increase in oil prices. Its only support for that claim consisted of quotes that were falsely attributed to Goldman Sachs. The entire report, therefore, was premised on a lie.

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Everything you've heard about fossil fuels may be wrong

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Michael Lind - May. 31 (Special Report) - Eventually civilization may well run out of natural gas and other fossil fuels that are recoverable at a reasonable cost, and may be forced to switch permanently to other sources of energy. These are more likely to be nuclear fission or nuclear fusion than solar or wind power, which will be as weak, diffuse and intermittent a thousand years from now as they are today. But that is a problem for the inhabitants of the world of 2500 or 3000 A.D.

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Saudi Prince Seeks to Discourage Western 'Alternatives' to High Priced Oil

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

International Business Times - May. 29 (News) - Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said on Sunday that he wants lower oil prices so that Western countries don't have the incentive to find alternatives. He told CNN that oil prices should be between $70 and $80 per barrel and not above $100 as they currently are.

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Skipping safeguards, officials rushed benefit to a politically-connected energy company

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

iWatch News - By Ronnie Greene, Matthew Mosk - May. 25 (News Report) - The Obama administration bypassed steps meant to protect taxpayers as it hurried to approve an energy loan guarantee to a politically-connected California solar power startup, iWatch News and ABC News have learned.

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What They Don’t Tell You About Oil Industry Tax Breaks

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - May. 25 (News) - It really is a game—and the stakes are dangerously high So I was reading this New York Times explainer on yet another failure to take the oil industry off the sweet, sweet gravy train. And my mind went back a bit to what’s missing from the current discussion—the long, long history of tax [...] ...

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Is Scholastic Selling Elementary School Kids on Coal?

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - May. 13 (News Report) - Environmental groups are going after the world's largest publisher of children's books for teaming up with the American Coal Foundation to produce "The United States of Energy," a lesson plan designed for fourth-graders. The foundation, online at Teachcoal.org, is devoted to creating "coal-related educational materials and programs designed for teachers and students."

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