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Top news stories:
The busiest part of the Atlantic
hurricane
season will get underway in just a few weeks, and it is
supposed
to
be an active one, with the possibility of three
to
five Category 3 or greater hurricanes.
The oil and natural gas industry s rate of U S job growth has
far outpaced the economy as a
whole
in
recent
years as production has surged, federal data shows.
The
rapidly
spreading wildfire raging through a rugged
Southern
California
mountain
range Thursday
had already destroyed
26
homes and was
threatening more than 500
other residences,
forcing
some
1,800
people
to
flee. One man suffered serious burns and five firefighters
were
injured, including
two
from heat exhaustion.
GOP candidates snagged 85 percent of the 2.6 million in
contributions from the oil and gas
industry,
OpenSecrets data shows, citing July 29 data released by the
Federal Election Commission. ExxonMobil
topped the
list
at
344,500
in
contributions,
304,500
of
which
went to
Republicans.
Energy news:
A shortage of biofuel credits needed for gasoline sales in
the
U S
may lead
to an
increase in exports of
the fuel from America in
2014,
according
to
the International Energy Agency. The
U S
Environmental
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Protection Agency,
or EPA,
earlier this
month
maintained its
target requiring
16.55 billion gallons,
or
1.1
million barrels a day, of biofuels be blended
into the
country's gasoline and diesel supplies this year. This
led
to
concerns
as to whether the
domestic gasoline market can absorb this volume of
biofuel
and
may
have hit
the
so-called blend wall,
the
IEA said
today.
BP CEO Robert Dudley says public hatred of oil companies in
the
United States is an
anomaly
in
the
world. Bloomberg Businessweek, in a new interview, asked him
why
do
people hate oil companies?
One year ago, General Electric delayed its plan
to build
the
world's
largest solar
plant
in Colorado, saying
it
would
focus instead
on
out-innovating its
primary competitor
in
thin-film technology,
First Solar. Now,
its plan
for the
400
megawatt (MW)
manufacturing
facility is officially
dead under a multi-pronged
partnership
announced this week
with
its
former
rival.
During
the
height of last month's
heat
wave,
millions
of people in northern New England were urged
to
conserve energy, and some
utilities fired up
expensive,
dirty
sources
of
power
to
meet
demand.
But
at
the
same time, at least
two
wind farms in Maine and Vermont were ordered to reduce
the
amount of
electricity they provided.
Urban Green Energy Inc., a
manufacturer of wind turbines
small enough
to
be placed on residential
rooftoops,
received
$20 million
in backing
to
install systems
that
will
power
mobile-phone
towers
in
remote
locations.
Solar
shipments
in
the
second quarter
from
three of
the top four
panel producers exceeded
projections
by
as
much
as
32
percent
as
demand
surged in Asia.
A European Union-backed project to produce biofuels from algae
moved a step forward on Thursday by
producing its first crop of algae biomass at its site in
southern
Spain, the main company behind the
scheme said on Thursday.
Climate news:
Coal
industry
lobbyists are
pitching
the White
House
on
a plan
to
create
achievable
carbon standards
for
coal-fired
power
plants that would enable construction of
new
projects. American Coalition
for
Clean
Coal Electric ity ACCCE) lobbyists
met
July 31
with
White House Office of Management and Budget aides
to
discuss upcoming EPA emissions standards
for
future plants, a newly posted meeting record shows.
It was a stunning figure: $60 trillion. Such could be the cost,
according to a recent commentary [PDF] in
the
journal
Nature,
of
the
release
of methane from thawing permafrost beneath the
East Siber ian Sea,
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off
northern Russia ... a
figure comparable to the
size
of the world
economy in
2012. More
specifically,
the
paper described a scenario in which rapid Arctic warming and sea
ice retreat lead
to
a pulse
of
undersea methane being released into
the
atmosphere.
The Keystone
XL
oil sands pipeline
will not
have any impact on greenhouse gas emissions, a report
released by prominent energy industry consulting group IHS CERA
said Thursday. The report said that's
because Canada's oil sands, which are more carbon-rich than
conventional oil, will come out of the
ground with or
without
Keystone.
Just
two
miles
from the White
House stands
the
Capitol
Power
Plant,
the
largest single source
of
carbon
emissions in
the nation's
capital and a
concrete
example
of the
government's
inability to
green its own
turf.
A survey released these
week
by a coalition
of
climate-conscious investor groups illustrates how climate
change could be having an increasingly strong
influence over
global
investments
with
particular
implications for fossil fuel
divestment
and
international
climate policy.
In
the smoke-and-mirrors world
of investment, however, some traders think the results have
little of substance to say.
There
aren't
many
hot
races in
this off-off
election year,
but the
Virginia
governor's
race
is
packed
full of
enough
drama
and weirdness
for
a dozen contests. Here's
just
a sampling
of the
crazy: An obsessive
vendetta
against a
prominent climate
scientist. A fledgling cleantech
company
under federal
investigation. A 1,500 turkey dinner (let's
hope
it was organic and
heritage
breed). Dueling
high-profile
billionaire donors.
An electric car is only
as
good
for
the climate
as the
electricity used to power it. And in states
that
rely
heavily on fossil fuels like coal and natural gas for their
electricity there are many conventional and plug
in
hybrid
electric vehicles
that
are
better for the climate
than all-electr ic cars.
The South Pacific Kingdom
of
Tonga
(population
106,000) doesn't have
the loudest
voice at
the climate
change negotiations, and
it
isn't known
for
pulling
stunts
like
underwater
Cabinet meetings
to draw
attention to the
grave threats islands face
from
global
warming.
Environment Health news:
Tesla stock
TSLA)
soared 17
percent
to record highs after a surprisingly good earnings report.
Tesla
Motors continues to
defy
expectations, making Tesla stock an intriguing option
for
many
clean tech
investors.
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A
new study
makes
the
case for tracking fish from
ocean to
plate
in order
to
protect
Americans from
overspending
hundreds of
dollars each year on mislabeled fish. Better tracking
of
fish would
decrease
the rates
of
seafood fraud, according to a
report
from the ocean conservation organization Oceana.
One major barrier to bringing electric vehicles to the masses is
range anxiety - not the fear that you left
the stove on at home, but the fear that your
EV
will run out of juice before you can get to the next
charging station. But creative solutions
are in the
works. This week, South Korea
debuted
the world's
first electric road, 15 miles
of
city
streets
with
underground
cables
that charge EVs
parked
or
driving
above
- no plug-in
stations
necessary.
A
group of state
lawmakers has asked the federal
government
to investigate hydraulic fracturing off
the
California coast where
new
oil leases have
been banned
since a disastrous oil spill in 1969.
With partisan politics trumping science-based solutions all too
often
these
days, it's especially
heartening when people overcome
political differences
to
let solid
data
point
the
way
toward
practical
solutions. That's what
happened
in Georgia last month when state regulators voted to require
Georgia
Power --
the
state's
sole investor-owned electricity provider --
to
expand
the
use
of
solar
power in
its
energy mix
A Shanghai
government report
found
more than
half
of
the city's rivers
and
lakes
are
severely
polluted, boosting
concerns
about
water
quality
months after thousands of dead
pigs
were
found
floating in its streams.
Costa
Rica is
a
leader
in
green economic development:
it has tripled its
GDP
over
the
past
25 years,
while doubling the size of its forests. Now, the country plans
to
open
the cages at its
two government-
funded zoos and
turn them
into wildlife sanctuaries where animals can roam free, citing a
change of
environmental
conscience
among
its citizens.
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