Barack Obama made public yesterday his intentions to appoint Dr. Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as Secretary of Energy. Dr. Chu, a Nobel laureate clean energy expert, is well known for turning the Berkeley Lab into... [more]

Dark news yesterday coming out of West Virginia. In what may be an effort to sneak in some very bad news before the holiday, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (seems like a misnomer today!) granted Massey Energy a permit to ... [more]

Cross-posted from the Breakthrough InstituteThe UK Government auctioned the first four million allowances to emit greenhouse gases under their portion of the European Union's Emissions Trading System this week, raising 54m ($80.9m). However, the g... [more]

Nike, Starbucks, Levi Strauss, Sun Microsystems and Timberland Challenge Lawmakers to Raise the Bar for U.S.Climate and Energy Policy; Call for CO2 Emission Cuts, Clean Energy Investments, Coal Plant LimitsToday, five leading US companies joined Cere... [more]

Mother Jones ran a great piece by Chris Mooney in its November/December 2008 Issue, How to Rescue the Economy and Save the Planet, that recommended a National Energy Education Act:THE GEEK SHORTAGE: According to the National Science Foundation, Ame... [more]

Obama gets it right in an interview on 60 Minutes: Steve Kroft: When the price of oil was at $147 a barrel, there were a lot of spirited and profitable discussions that were held on energy independence. Now you've got the price of oil under $60. Mr. ... [more]

Cross-posted from the Breakthrough InstituteThe stark tone of the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2008 is a dramatic departure from their normally staid and frequently rosy projections about the world's energy future (I presented h... [more]

Cross-posted from the Breakthrough InstituteThe world's energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency, released their annual World Energy Outlook report today, and it starts out with a bang. The first paragraph of the IEA report reads: The world'... [more]

Here's a profile piece from the Oregonian newspaper on Sherman County, Oregon. Once a rural county in decline with a median income less than 2/3rds the state's average, Sherman County is now home to a bustling wind power boom, giving new revenue to ... [more]

Reuters reports on several possible candidates for Barack Obama's Secretary of Energy. Whoever is selected will join Obama's candidate and will likely be the main point person tasked with acting on the President-elect's number one priority: igniting... [more]