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Coal Hurts Babies

Posted in Coal, tagged 81st legislature, birth defects, carbon caucus, carbon management caucus, China, china daily, Coal, coal plant, environmental pollution, grist, penn state, shanxi on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A week and a half ago I sat in on the first Carbon Management Caucus meeting of the 81st Legislature and listened to a professor from Penn State tell legislators, their staffers, and a few intrepid members of the general public that “we need coal, coal isn’t going anywhere, in China they’re using tons and [...]

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If You Lead, They Will Follow

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Barack Obama, Carbon Dioxide, China, climate change, developing nations, emissions, Global Warming, green new deal, grist, India, japan, leadership, prime minister, stimulus package, taro aso on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Throughout the global warming debate, I have often heard an argument I like to call “the China cop-out.” It goes somewhere along the lines of, “Developing nations like China and India are growing so quickly, adding so many new coal-fired power plants, and emitting so much carbon dioxide that it isn’t worth it for the [...]

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More Clean Energy Headed Austin’s Way

Posted in Renewables, tagged Austin, Austin American-Statesman, green jobs, kxan, manufacturing jobs, news 8, semiconductor industry, smartspark, solar, solar energy startup, Texas, wildcatting the sun on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Remember last week, when solar power was ALL OVER THE NEWS? Check out this video of News 8 Austin’s news story from Monday (and look for Smitty, our director, proclaiming that “Now is the time to Wildcat the Sun!”): Also, check out KXAN’s news coverage. The KXAN slant on the story was pretty interesting: they [...]

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