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Opinion: Earth Day at 40 -- Looking Ahead

(April 22) -- Earth Day is a great time to come together to celebrate our environmental successes. It's hard to believe it's been 40 years since the first one. Our country has seen a string of incredible environmental triumphs over the past 40 years. Citizens from across the country have repeatedly come together to demand...

Opinion: Time to Go Nuclear on Energy

(Jan. 29) – As part of his push for clean-energy jobs, President Obama in his State of the Union speech specifically called for "building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country." The line got standing applause from both sides of the aisle. And for good reason. Today, fossil fuels meet...

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10/04/11 OECD, IEA Support Phase Out of Fossil Fuel Subsidies Source: International Business Times (Australia) Secretary-General and IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven emphasised that subsidies to fossil-fuel consumers often fail to meet their intended objectives: alleviating energy poverty or promoting economic development, and instead create wasteful use of energy, contribute to price volatility by blurring market signals, encourage fuel smuggling and lower competitiveness of renewables and energy efficient technologies.
08/10/11 Recent decreases in fossil-fuel emissions of ethane... Source: nature.com a , Ethane-based fossil-fuel emission histories (left y -axis) for fixed biomass burning (solid grey lines) and variable biomass burning (solid black line) cases, compared with bottom-up methane emission estimates from fossil fuels (coloured lines, right y -axis) based on the following sums of emissions: blue, gas flaring, gas supply and coal mining 1 ; red, fossil-fuel consumption, fossil-fuel production and industrial 2 ; green, oil, gas and solid fuels (data from http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ ). The oil and gas only methane emissions from EDGAR4.1 (see URL in previous sentence; green dashed line) and gas flaring and gas supply methane emissions from ref. 1 (blue dashed line) are also shown.
11/21/10 No letup in carbon emissions: scientists Source: f2 Network Emissions of fossil-fuel gases that stoke climate change edged back less than hoped in 2009 as falls in advanced economies were largely outweighed by rises in China and India, scientists say.