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Clean-tech: a decade of explosive growth with more to come What a difference a decade makes. Once shunned as an industry only a tree-hugger could love, clean-tech has blossomed into an economic heavyweight, according to a report from research firm Clean Edge Inc. Companies working on green construction and the smart grid are proliferating, the study said. From less than 10,000 hybrid electric vehicles in 2000, now more than 1.4 million are speeding around U.S. roads. The solar photovoltaics market grew an average of 40% each year over the past decade to $71.2 billion in 2010 from $2.5 billion in 2000
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March 16 News: Clean tech’s decade of explosive growth; DOE aims for $1 a watt solar by 2017; NOAA data shows warming world
EPA’s Jackson lays out five ‘fictions’ about the agency’s agenda Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson sought Thursday to debunk a series of “fictions” about agency regulations that she said were pushed by “special interests with an investment in the outcome.” “I would like to take a moment today to address some of the mischaracterizations that have been, at times, unaddressed, or that need to be addressed again,” Jackson said during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on EPA regulations. Jackson has come under fire in recent months from lawmakers in farm states, who fear that upcoming EPA regulations will impose major costs on farmers’ operations. But Jackson made a concerted effort Thursday to push back against criticism of the agency’s regulations. “[F]acts matter and we all have a responsibility to ensure that the American people have facts and the truth in front of them, particularly when fictions are pushed by special interests with an investment in the outcome.” Jackson laid out five myths about the agency: Myth 1: EPA will impose a so-called “cow tax,” in which emissions from cows will be regulated.
Power and automation technology group ABB has won an order worth around $30 million from the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation, the electricity and water operator in Qatar, to build two underground substations to help meet increasing residential and commercial demand for power in the capital city of Doha. The substations will be practically invisible to the public and form part of the first phase of Musheireb, the key project of Dohaland, which is a subsidiary of the Qatar Foundation for education, science and community development. The Musheireb project will be executed in five stages and aims to reconstruct and restore a 35-hectare area in Doha’s old city centre.
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Qatar taps ABB for Dohaland project power
You have to be pretty extreme for centrist WashPost columnist Dana Milbank to label you a “ A hooligan governor .” But that’s the headline in his column today on Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI). On Friday, Think Progress posted “ REPORT: Top 10 Disastrous Policies From The Wisconsin GOP You Haven’t Heard About .” I’m reposting the whole piece below since four of those disastrous policies would subject Wisconsin families to dirtier air and dirtier water. As the standoff between the Main Street Movement and Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) continues for the twelfth day, much of the media coverage — and anger — from both sides has focused on Walker’s efforts to strip Wisconsin public workers of their right to collective bargaining.
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Four disastrous pro-pollution policies from Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP you haven’t heard about
Sea creatures can’t develop in warming ocean SYDNEY: Sea urchins and marine abalone – large sea snails – will not develop skeletons if the ocean continues to warm and acidify as predicted, new research has shown. The results of a new study show that abalone and sea urchins born into ocean conditions 100 years from now will be unable to calcify their shells or grow their spines – suggesting that key sources of protein will be lost due to climate change in the future. “We wondered about the impact of climate change on shelled marine animals since ocean acidification reduces the amount of carbonate ions, which they need to make their calcium carbonate skeletons,” said Maria Byrne from the School of Biological Sciences and School of Medical Sciences at Sydney University, Australia.
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Energy and global warming news for February 10th: Sea creatures can’t develop in warming ocean; EPA administrator faces down GOP critics; U.S….