President Obama will urge Congress today to approve a policy providing $2 billion for battery and transportation research meant to end the use of oil in the United States. Speaking this afternoon from the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, the president will make the case for using oil and gas drilling in federal waters to fund the Energy Security Trust for 10 years.
On a grassy plot in Saskatchewan, developers are about to test a technology that some think could be the savior of the global coal industry. There, Canadian utility SaskPower is rebuilding a 43-year-old coal plant at its Boundary Dam Power Station to capture roughly 90 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions and store the gas deep underground.
A sponsor of the House version of a much-touted energy efficiency bill expressed high hopes for the legislation's prospects yesterday at a conference focused on power conservation in Washington, D.C. (E&ENews PM, )
The White House has completed a seven-month review of renewable fuel technologies and feedstocks. (Greenwire, )
Exporting the country's newfound glut of shale gas will have a "modest" effect on domestic prices because of economic factors within the United States as well as large costs tied to transporting and liquefying gas, according to a new report. (Greenwire, )
Sign of the future, or maybe not. (ClimateWire, )
Senate Republicans are urging U.S. EPA to halt a long-awaited rulemaking aimed at curbing stormwater runoff -- a major pollution source. (E&ENews PM, )
A California congresswoman Friday introduced legislation that would create a national strategy for addressing the public health effects of climate change, including respiratory illness, allergies and tropical diseases. (Greenwire, )
