Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. New NOAA Analysis Gives Further Clues about Location and Movement of Subsurface Oil in Gulf – and how little of it there is
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Remember the debate about the subsurface "plumes" or oil released by the leaking BP well in the Gulf of Mexico? A new report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the ...

2. 360+ Organizations Release Statement on Senate Inaction on Energy Bill
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Clean Energy Works, a diverse coalition of more than 80 grassroots organizations representing more than 12 million Americans emailed a statement signed by more than 360 groups bemoaning the Senate's failure ...

3. COMMENT:VISIONS LAUNCHES ONLINE COMMUNITY
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Comment:Visions recently revealed a new and improved 'Contributor Community', allowing policy-makers, industry-leaders and experts in energy and environment to interact and network with each other on ...

4. Transitioning to Cool Roofs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... reducing ground-surface temperatures and overall energy requirements. ...

5. Renewable Energy Policy Update For China
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

As with the rest of the global renewable energy sector, China's renewables policy has evolved considerably over recent years. Here are the latest major developments and market trends. ...

6. Transitioning to Cool Roofs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... reducing ground-surface temperatures and overall energy requirements. ...

7. Tom Pyle’s Summer Reading List
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Does history teach us nothing? Year after year, Congress talks about the need to develop a national energy policy, and yet all they really accomplish is increased government intervention in the energy ...

8. BTEC: Massachusetts Study Shows Benefits of Biomass Thermal
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The Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study, a report that was recently released and commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER), affirms the environmental benefits ...

9. Massachusetts Study Recognizes Significant Benefits of Biomass Thermal Energy
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"Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study", a recently released report commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER) and authored by the Manomet Center for Conservation ...

10. Bioenergy Associations Join Call for Shift in Energy Policy and Investment in Clean Energy Technologies
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The American Biogas Council (ABC) and the Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) issued a statement supporting the President Obama's recent remarks and the American Energy Innovation Council's call to ...

11. Live Video Webcast Wed. 8AM ET: Climate Policy Uncertainty - Where Does the Power Industry Go From Here? Register Now!
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/partner/powergen/europe/2010-06-04/ ...

12. 3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... from coal-fired power plants in the context of the increasing demand for energy, and dealing with local impacts of mercury contamination. The single largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions is ...

13. President Hockfield's charge to the graduates
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... look out on a world riddled with manifestly unsustainable systems, from the environment to the global economy; from healthcare to transportation; from water, to cities, to energy — ailing systems whose ...

14. Energy answer: Blowing in the wind?
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... energy. The comparatively high costs of wind power, however, remain a problem. But in a study, MIT researchers have concluded that some of the price problems associated with wind power can be remedied ...

15. Brazilian Lessons for Industrial Policy
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Few economic ideas are more lauded and reviled than that of industrial policy. Proponents, such as those who studied the rise of the East Asian economies, swear by it. Opponents see red at its very mention. ...

16. Emissions-based climate deal 'not possible'
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Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper  ...

17. Emissions-based climate deal 'not possible'
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper  ...

18. POET outlines renewable fuel future in testimony to House Agriculture Committee
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Ethanol producers each year produce more renewable fuel more efficiently, but the growing alternative to oil industry dominance needs bold policy to help offset more foreign oil imports in the future, ...

19. Gulf spill raises questions about future U.S. energy policy (McClatchy Newspapers)
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McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Gulf oil spill not only has altered the landscape of the Gulf Coast, it also has completely changed the debate over national energy policy.  ...

20. Global Leaders Meet to Collaborate on Energy Efficiency Goals
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Assistant Secretary Cathy Zoi of the joined leaders from 15 countries and the European Commission today at the first Policy Committee meeting of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation ...

21. Global Leaders Meet to Collaborate on Energy Efficiency Goals
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Leaders from 15 countries, the European Commission, and the United States have held the first policy meeting of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC). DOE Assistant ...

22. BP's U.S. Gulf project exempted from enviro analysis
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U.S. regulators exempted BP Plc from a detailed environmental review of the exploration project that ultimately resulted in the deadly Gulf of Mexico explosion and subsequent oil spill, documents show.  ...

23. Friends, family gather to honor Paul Samuelson
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... rigorous, mathematical discipline, and whose energy and renown quickly helped build one of the world’s leading economics departments after his arrival at MIT in 1940. “He achieved that stature and transformed ...

24. 3 Questions: David MacKay on renewable energy
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David MacKay (pronounced mac-EYE), a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, was recently appointed to a three-year term as chief scientific advisor to the UK’s Department of Energy and ...

25. IER Teams Up with AWEA, Sierra Club to Take Mother Earth to Court
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Photo: Flickr user afsart WASHINGTON – Citing the intransigence of Mother Earth and the increasingly irreconcilable differences between the dictates of U.S. energy policy and the ethereal realities of ...

26. Charting a course toward cleaner cars
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... ideas into a report called “An Action Plan for Cars.” The study was supported in part by the MIT Energy Initiative. The first group of policies aims to reduce the fuel consumption of new vehicles. The ...

27. Recharging debate, Obama expands offshore drilling (AP)
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AP - Shaking up years of energy policy and his own environmental backers, President Barack Obama threw open a huge swath of East Coast waters and other protected areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico ...

28. Environmentalists scoff, GOP shrugs at Obama's drilling plan (McClatchy Newspapers)
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McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he'll lift bans on new drilling for oil and natural gas off much of the U.S. coastline drew criticism from ...

29. Offshore drilling could tap large supplies (AP)
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AP - Opening more of America's coastlines to oil and natural gas drilling won't cut energy prices anytime soon. And it won't greatly reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil.  ...

30. Action needed to save climate, create jobs
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Clean-energy technologies offer the promise of revitalizing a dwindling base of manufacturing jobs in the United States while also addressing the problems of climate change and energy security, said Democratic ...