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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House called for implementing a “comprehensive market-based policy” that includes offsets to fight climate change, but omitted a projection in the new budget that a cap-and-trade market would raise $646 billion in revenues by 2019. The Obama administration has pledged to cut U.S. emissions about 17 percent by 2020 from… Read More
by Candace Lombardi: Researchers at Northwestern University are developing a new method for removing radioactive materials from liquid nuclear waste. The group of scientists led by Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, a Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, announced their breakthrough on Tuesday. The group’s paper described the process metaphorically to… Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The four-letter word that will dominate President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Wednesday — jobs — could be the savior for faltering climate control legislation, or at least that’s environmentalists’ latest hope. Supporters of a global warming bill have failed to captivate the country with warnings of drought, disappearing… Read More
by Martin LaMonica: Bill Gates, whose philanthropy is aimed at improving human health in poor countries, is taking a interest in clean energy, both intellectually and financially. In an interview with CNET’s Ina Fried, Gates said that he has invested in Vinod Khosla’s green-technology fund aimed at incubating breakthrough technologies. “He is backing some great… Read More
Tesla often emphasizes that it works more like a Silicon Valley technology company than a traditional car company. And the company just proved it by delivering a model update to the Tesla Roadster for 2010. Remember, the Roadster has only been in production for one year, but in that time Tesla completely redesigned the interior,… Read More
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible despite the limited results of last month’s Copenhagen meeting. “I’ve got an idea about how we can actually move this forward over the next few months and I’ll be working on… Read More
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Industry has struggled to sway U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen because of a remote negotiating process and a lobby split between climate policy winners and losers, executives said on Friday. U.N. talks in Copenhagen are meant to agree the outline of a new treaty, including sharp cuts in carbon emissions, at a… Read More
Patent requests related to green technology will get the equivalent of the carpool lane at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent office on Monday introduced a pilot program to accelerate the reviews of green technology-related patents. The goal is to shave as much as one year off the process, which now takes on… Read More
By Christopher DeMorro: You know electric cars are serious when even Rolls Royce is considering ditching fossil fuel for electrons. The maker of luxury cars renowned the world over for their opulence is seriously considering having an electric version of its luxo-bargo Phantom on the road as early as next year… just in time for… Read More
by Martin LaMonica: Sun Catalytix, a company that’s trying to develop a revolutionary clean-energy system, has finished a round of seed funding and secured a technology license from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company was formed about one year ago to commercialize research from MIT professor Daniel Nocera in which he attempts… Read More
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