Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles or tell us about other current items of interest in the comment thread below.
Democrats: White House must publish ‘chilling’ climate change document
Guardian (UK), Elana Schor, 7.25.08
The row over US inaction on carbon emissions reached new heights yesterday after the White House allowed Congress to look at last year’s government proposal to officially deem climate change a threat to public health – a plan that aides to George Bush refused to acknowledge or read.
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Study: climate change could cost Kansas $1 billion
Kansas City Star. Maria Sudekum Fisher, 7.24.08
Rising temperatures and reduced water supply could cost Kansas more than $1 billion in agriculture losses by 2017, says a new study from the University of Maryland’s Center for Integrative Environmental Research.
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Changing motorists’ minds, one $100 fill-up at a time
Seattle Times, Lance Dickie, 7.25.08
I never fully appreciated the variety of elephantine SUVs and mastodonic pickup trucks available until they all started to squeeze into spaces at my park-and-ride lot.
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Drilling in ANWR will cut gas costs
Human Events, Michelle Bachmann, 7.25.08
America’s gas prices are continuing to spiral out of control and Washington has done nothing to give our nation’s motorists the relieve they deserve. Record high prices are having a major impact on American consumers and businesses, from the way people travel to the way they do business to the food they buy at the grocery store. Congress has the ability to decrease prices at the pump and get our nation back to $2 a gallon gas – and it means accessing our nation’s available resources and opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) today.
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Clean power price warning
Sydney Morning Herald, 7.25.08
The energy industry has warned that an effective emissions trading scheme could drive up the price of energy by almost a quarter in inflation-adjusted dollars by 2020.
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Nuclear power: lighting the future
Townhall, Rebecca Hagelin, 7.24.08
Radical environmentalists didn’t like it when President Bush decided not to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. And they hated his lifting of the presidential ban on offshore drilling.
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July 29th, 2008 at 12:48 am
The row over US inaction on carbon emissions reached new heights yesterday after the White House allowed Congress to look at last year’s government proposal to officially deem climate change a threat to public health – a plan that aides to George Bush refused to acknowledge or read.