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Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Growing the Grid, Budget Veto Threat, Gulf Reparations

July 22, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday approved guidelines for growing the nation’s electricity grid to accommodate renewable energy and market competition, The New York Times said. The guidelines say that costs should be paid by those who benefit. The agency also suggested that federal regulators will enable transmission line ... Read more »

Johnson & Johnson Sets Goals for Carbon, Water, Waste, Renewables

July 15, 2011July 15, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Johnson & Johnson is targeting a 20 percent cut in facility CO2 emissions by 2020 and a 10 percent cut in water use by 2015, as part of a suite of new goals unveiled yesterday. The environmental goals form part of the health and personal care company’s five year sustainability ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Tea Party RGGI Suit, E15, Stimulus Project Audit

June 29, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Investigators at the Treasury Department are auditing 14 of the 2,600 wind and solar projects that received incentive funds under the 2009 stimulus bill, Bloomberg reports. The audits will aim to determine whether the department “established (and followed) appropriate procedures for awarding the grants,” and whether developers met eligibility requirements, ... Read more »

Whole Foods, News Corp, Adobe Lead Renewable Procurement

June 28, 2011July 9, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

News Corporation, Kohl’s, TD Bank and Adobe Systems are sector leaders in renewable energy purchasing, and Whole Foods is a “global wind energy champion”, according to new research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and wind turbine manufacturer Vestas. The study is based on data from the Corporate Renewable Energy Index ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Ethanol, EIA, Calif. Cap and Trade

June 15, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

An amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) to eliminate a 45 cent on the dollar tax break given to ethanol blenders was defeated 40-59 on Tuesday, the Hill reports. More ethanol battles are expected in the Senate next week, however. Yesterday majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he’s planning a vote ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: NJ Target Cut, China Subsidy, Methane MOU

June 8, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

New Jersey governor Chris Christie yesterday announced plans to scale back the state’s targets under its renewable portfolio standard, the New York Times reports. Christie wants to revise the amount of electricity that has to be derived from renewable sources by 2021, from 30 percent down to 22.5 percent. The changes ... Read more »

New Jersey Quits RGGI, Bans Coal Plants

May 27, 2011May 31, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

New Jersey governor Chris Christie has pulled the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the only mandatory cap-and-trade program in the U.S., while promising to ban new coal-fired plants in the state. Branding the RGGI a failure, Christie told a press conference yesterday that the state will withdraw ... Read more »

GE Natural Gas Plant ‘Will Help Meet Renewable Goals’

May 25, 2011May 25, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

GE has announced a “first-of-its-kind” natural gas power plant that rapidly ramps up and down in response to fluctuating output from wind and solar installations. The FlexEfficiency 50, unveiled today in Paris, is a 510 MW combined cycle plant that offers fuel efficiency greater than 61 percent. GE says the ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Fracking, Energy Acts, and EU Moves to Cut GHGs

May 25, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Democrats and Republicans are blaming different parties for the cost of gasoline, which lingers near the $4 per gallon mark, Market Watch reports. On Tuesday, House Republicans released a report that said the Obama administration has stifled domestic oil and gas production. The report criticised proposed restrictions on the natural gas-drilling ... Read more »

Renewable Briefing: GM, APS, BoDean, US Army, Ikea

May 12, 2011May 12, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

General Motors has announced plans to build a 516 kW solar array at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, which produces the Chevrolet Volt electric car. The 264,000 square foot system, to be built on six acres, will generate electricity capable of charging 150 of the electric cars every day for a year. ... Read more »

AEP Aims for 10% GHG Reduction

April 28, 2011May 5, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

AEP expects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by ten percent by 2020, from 2010 levels – even as it warns that it cannot afford to take on voluntary carbon reduction initiatives. In its 2011 Corporate Accountability Report, AEP said that it emitted 134 million metric tons of GHGs from ... Read more »

12 Countries Agree to Carbon Capture Actions; IEA Urges Aggressive Policies

April 8, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Energy secretaries from the U.S., U.K. and ten other countries have agreed to accelerate the development of carbon capture projects, at the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi. Ministers from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates also joined the ... Read more »

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