This blog was co-authored by Dr. Stephen Smith, Toni Reale and Jennifer Rennicks.
Hollywood couldn’t have written a stranger, more ironic script depicting our nation’s ugly, polluting and dangerous energy addiction. On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the world watched as the Deepwater Horizon, the “technologically advanced” $600 million exploratory drill rig, sank into the [...]
Yesterday, President Obama backed down from a campaign promise to uphold the moratorium on offshore drilling that has protected our southeastern shorelines from oil interests for decades. His announcement proposes to open up 167 million ocean acres in federal waters from Delaware to the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas exploration. This plan [...]
The answer is quite simply, no. According to a three-year study released by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that analyzed data from thousands of homes located near wind farms in the U.S., wind energy projects have no impact on home values after wind project construction.
This may come as no shock. Many folks do not believe that wind [...]
After several months of waiting, President Obama has nominated Neil McBride and Barbara Heskew, both Tennesseans, to fill two of the four vacant seats on the TVA Board of Directors. They now face confirmation by the Senate before they can be appointed and take their seats at one of the more powerful tables in the [...]
Some bloggers are anxious about the renewable electricity portfolio standard in the latest version of the Waxman-Markey energy bill. Jim DiPeso writes, “The renewable portfolio standard as currently written may be worse than doing nothing.”
I think that goes too far, and encourage you to take action and support this legislation, but there are some [...]
Electric power use in the southeast declined over the last year three times more than the national average, according to the March 2009 Electric Power Monthly report. Looking at the electric power sector only, electric power demand dropped by 2.7% in 2008. Presumably the economic downturn is the reason for this dramatic drop in power [...]
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