Senate Progress on the Energy Bill

http://communities.thomsonreuters.com/Carbon/410436

Peak Oil

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/006417.html

USDA to Oversee Carbon Offset Program in Energy Bill

The House Ag Committee has won a major argument on who is to administer the offset program in the new energy bill.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/06/24/24climatewire-farm-groups-prevail-as-house-climate-bill-pu-24287.html

Why the Ethanol Debate Isn’t Helping Anyone

An article by our friend Noam Ross.
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2009/06/03/why-ethanol-debate-isnt-helping-anyone

Tennessee, Economic Development and Clean Energy

An interesting approach to economic development for green industry in Tennessee.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ixKbL9_bhtol-3qKKtiV6E05H5ggD96LEUCG1

Obama Acts on Fuel Efficiency, Global Warming

Normally I would not spend time to point out what the major new services are reporting, but let’s give the new President some attention.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/26/news/economy/obama_energy/index.htm?postversion=2009012613

Heat

A colleague, Brandon Faneuf, reports that the PBS Frontline report HEAT is worth watching.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/

Ethanol Plants and Carbon Emissions

From Terry Beeman in the Des Moines Register:
Ethanol plants contributed 7.6 million metric tons to a total 52 million metric tons of greenhouse-gas emissions found in the state’s new inventory of major manufacturers, businesses and power plants.
The largest share of emissions came from fermenting grain at the plants, not from burning natural gas or coal. [...]

Snow

It looked like it was going to snow this morning so…. I found this article interesting….evidently some clever Japanese engineer has determined that the Chitose Airport will use collected snow to provide 30% of their cooling energy.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/snow-used-to-cool-hokkaido-japan-airport.php

Renewable Energy Potential of Contaminated Lands

EPA has published a Google Earth map of their data on the renewable energy potential of contaminated lands.
Article and Link