Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and representatives from six mid-Atlantic states meet in Washington to lay the groundwork for wind development off the East coast. Salazar says he will streamline the permit process for offshore alternative energy. Source: Clean Skies News
The UNFCCC’s Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer has announced that he will step down in July. Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director at the National Resources Defense Council gives his view. Source: Clean Skies News
Major UK companies have formed a “Task Force” to urge the UK government to take more seriously the threat of coming oil supply shortages – the “Peak Oil” problem. The Task Force have just launched an updated report after their first report in late 2008 was largely ignored by government. Source: ITPOES
Renewable energy leaders want the tax credits contained in the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be extended for a further three years to encourage private financing and new investment in renewable energy projects. Source: Clean Skies News
Center for American Progress climate blogger Joe Romm, formerly of the DOE, wants the IPCC to make the format of its reports shorter, more frequent, and more specific, due to frequent mistakes found in the current lengthy, thousand-page reports. Source: Clean Skies News
President Obama tours a wind turbine plant at a community college outside of Cleveland, Ohio and then promotes green technology as a source of new jobs as well as energy. Source: Clean Skies News
The new year will bring a new commercial building efficiency law in D.C. that could go nationwide and actually make buildings more affordable for owners. Source: Clean Skies News
World leaders finally clinched a climate deal at the end of the marathon talks in Copenhagen but admitted it would not halt global warming, while environmental campaigners and representatives of the poorest countries denounced the outcome as an abject failure. Source: AFP
Danish police used tear gas and truncheons to stop an activists march at the global climate summit in Copenhagen, arresting some 260 people as anger boiled over at the high-stakes talks. Source: AFP
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) has decided to delay a decision to increase the ethanol blend in gasoline. The ethanol industry is hoping for a favorable decision that will enable them to re-open idled plants. Source: Clean Skies News
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