Texas: "New Codes Aim to Cut Energy Use"
Some building codes in Texas are forcing new homes to be more energy-efficient.
Source: Texas Tribune, 12/20/2011
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"Nuclear Waste Site Hunt Could Point To Granite"
"MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The likely death of a planned nuclear waste site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain has left federal agencies looking for a possible replacement. A national lab working for the U.S. Department of Energy is now eying granite deposits stretching from Georgia to Maine as potential sites, along with big sections of Minnesota and Wisconsin where that rock is prevalent."
Source: AP, 12/20/2011
"News Analysis: Environmentalists Get Down to Earth"
"At a fall retreat, board members of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the environmental advocacy group, listened as a political consultant gave a critique of the green movement."
Source: NY Times Magazine, 12/19/2011
Funds Cut for New Light Bulb Standards Will Have Little Effect
"The federal spending bill before Congress is a no-spending bill for the Energy Department when it comes to enforcing new efficiency standards for light bulbs. But the new standards for light bulbs — signed into law in 2007 — would remain in place, meaning the effort to stem the new rules might mean little at the end of the day."
Source: Wash Post, 12/19/2011
"Breakthrough Could Double Solar Energy Output"
"A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin may allow photovoltaic solar cells to double their efficiency, thus providing loads more electrical power from regular sunlight."
Source: LA Times, 12/19/2011
"China Scales Up Solar Power Capacity Plan By 50 Percent"
"China has further revised up its solar power development target for 2015 by 50 percent from its previous plan, state media reported on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 12/16/2011
"Spending Bill Blocks Light Bulb Standards"
"The shutdown-averting budget bill will block federal light bulb efficiency standards, giving a win to House Republicans fighting the so-called ban on incandescent light bulbs."
Source: Politico, 12/16/2011
"OPEC Opts to Increase Its Level of Output"
"The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed on Wednesday to increase its production target for the first time in three years, a move that appeared to signal that Saudi Arabia and Iran had put aside their recent differences on oil policy, at least temporarily.
Source: NY Times, 12/15/2011
"Is It Safe To Drill? Learn What New Oil-Spill Report Says"
"BP and the oil industry drilling in the Gulf of Mexico lacked the proper safety attitude to handle the large risks of deepwater drilling, leading to the many bad decisions behind the nation's worst offshore spill, a panel of expert engineers said today.
More specifically, the industry needs to radically redesign the blowout preventers that are meant to be a last line of defense against runaway wells or else risk a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the National Academy of Engineering concluded.
Source: AP, 12/15/2011
"Groups Sue to Block Auction of Offshore Oil Leases"
"Environmental groups on Tuesday challenged the first attempted auction of offshore petroleum leases in the western Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, filing a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Washington."
Source: AP, 12/14/2011
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