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April 27th, 2012
Weekends are a great time to unwind from the stress of the work week and indulge in a little conspiracy theorizing. Last Saturday I sat down to read the New York Times and learned the latest details about the until-recently covert operations of the American Legislative Exchange Council. This is the conservative consortium of legislative ghostwriters made infamous for their role in drafting “Stand Your Ground” laws like the ones implicated in the Trayvon Martin case. Read More
March 26th, 2012
“Then we needed steel for our vessels, but were getting all of the steel from the UK and Germany. So the US Navy created the US steel industry. Is the biofuel plan an aggressive goal? Yes, but small goals deliver small results.” – Thomas Hicks of the U.S. Navy as quoted in the Guardian, March 12, 2012 Read More
January 17th, 2012
Last week, Mathew Wald of the New York Times wrote an article about small fines that are being levied against the oil companies for failure to comply with Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) mandates for cellulosic biofuels. Wald reasoned that it was odd or perhaps unreasonable for the EPA to fine oil companies for failure to buy cellulosic biofuels, given that none of it is available in the marketplace. Read More
December 15th, 2011
The Keystone Pipeline is in the news again, as the oil industry and its allies in Congress take another shot at snaking dirty tar sands crude across the High Plains and deep into the heart of Texas. The pipeline may end in Texas, but the oil industry’s greasy fingerprints have a way of getting all over everything, from DC budget battles to California Climate policy. Read More
December 8th, 2011
Last week an OpEd in the New York Times called attention to the agricultural activities damaging the Ogallala aquifer, both depleting the aquifer by using water faster than it is replaced, and polluting it with fertilizer and pesticides. Read More
October 4th, 2011
Today is an inspection day for U.S. clean energy, as the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued an assessment on the progress we’ve made in supplanting fossil fuels with domestically produced biofuels. I was surprised, taken aback and impressed by the frankness of the report, which NAS prepared at the request of Congress. Read More
September 30th, 2011
Pop Quiz: How much did you spend on gas at your last fill up? Was it more than $4 a gallon? If your answer was “I don’t know,” you’re in good company. Gas prices are so volatile we’re lucky they don’t change between when we pull into the station and when we start pumping. Read More
August 30th, 2011
Most of my work at the Union of Concerned Scientists centers on meeting the Billion Gallon Challenge. Getting cellulosic biofuels up to commercial scale is the key next step on the road to biofuels that deliver the oil savings and climate change benefits that have long been promised. Read More
August 11th, 2011
The Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently released an important update to their assessment on biomass availability. The “Billion Ton Update” catalogs the current and future availability of biomass to use for fuel or energy. Read More
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