Environmentalist to Commerce
June 4, 2011 3 min. read

It appears to me that President Obama has made another excellent choice for his administration for advancing the cause of clean tech and living up to the responsibility of fighting the climate crisis.  He has named John Bryson, a founder of the seminal environmental organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council, as the new Secretary of […]

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“Say What?” – Biofuels Division
February 1, 2011 3 min. read

(Sorry to have been a while away from the blog, but last week was pretty busy and then we got away for some lovely skiing.  Snow can be a wonderful thing.  My sympathies, of course, do go out to those of you who are suffering at home, or in your travels, from the very heavy […]

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Taking the Bull by the Horns
October 8, 2010 4 min. read

If we wait for the US Senate to create even adequate, let alone progressive, thoughtful legislation mandating a price on carbon, it will be too late.  I have written about the manifestly undemocratic public policy graveyard that is the US Senate and its denizens a number of times.  If you care about the parlous state […]

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