By Elizabeth Bassett | August 2, 2012 05:24 PM Comments (0)
I consider myself an environmentalist.
I don’t have a family or a job or hobby requiring a big vehicle, so I drive a Honda Civic, and the back is always filled with assorted re-usable bags to tote around groceries. I recycle and try to remind my husband, also an energy journalist, to put the beer bottles in the recycling bin and not the trash.
By Derek Sands | July 18, 2012 04:08 PM Comments (0)
Republicans in Congress have been blunt in their assessment of the Obama administration’s renewable energy policies: they are a pile of manure.
But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday earlier this week that manure could be just the solution to some of the county’s energy woes.
By Herman Wang | April 30, 2012 10:52 AM Comments (0)
Everybody knows that coal provides the cheapest electricity in the US and that renewables have a ways to go before they can be cost-competitive without subsidies.
Or do they?
By News Desk | April 30, 2012 10:19 AM Comments (0)
Coalseam gas has been a growing source of supply for Australia, but it’s about to come under a new level of scrutiny. It’s not just coalseam gas; the Australian government is looking at coal as well. Christine Forster writes about it in this week’s Oilgram News column, Regulation & the Environment.
By Kathy Larsen | April 1, 2012 09:31 AM Comments (1)
Now that the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a regulation describing just what new coal and natural gas power plants must be like with respect to carbon dioxide emissions, one might think utilities and plant developers would have an easier time with long-range planning. The rule might deliver the certainty that executives always say they’re looking for.
But it’s not necessarily so.
By John Kingston | March 28, 2012 02:43 PM Comments (0)
There’s no such thing as a short document regarding the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard. If the LCFS was a software program, it would have several million lines of code.
What’s surprising about the LCFS is that it’s out there looming over the California market, and by extension, other markets, and there are far more unkowns about it than knowns.
So based on meetings The Barrel had in Sacramento earlier this month, here are a few things to bring you up-to-date, while trying to do it in less than those few million lines:
By News Desk | March 8, 2012 01:10 PM Comments (0)
And now we’re into electric power on this day at CERA, where electric power is the focus. But that inevitably brings in discussion of the things that produce that power.
By News Desk | January 23, 2012 10:08 AM Comments (0)
Canada’s official exit from the Kyoto treaty — an act undertaken by one of the pact’s biggest public supporters — could be seen as a significant win for the oil sands industry. But that sector is facing a host of other issues, including rising costs. Platts correspondent Gary Park, in this week’s Oilgram News column “Petrodollars,” reviews the landscape.
By John Kingston | January 17, 2012 10:03 AM Comments (0)
In discussing the inclusion of airlines in the EU Emissions Trading System, which started January 1, here are a few numbers to consider:
By John Kingston | January 4, 2012 11:28 AM Comments (0)
The Barrel was preparing to pull together a blog entry based on recent Platts’ reporting regarding the impact that California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard might have on the state’s crude oil market and production. Then a federal court intervened.
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