Posted in Carbon, Climate, Electricity, Energy policy, Environment, Investment, tagged Google, Pataki, Schwarzenegger, SolarCity on April 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Carbon, Climate, Electricity, Energy policy, Environment, tagged Michael Bloomberg, Natural gas, T. Boone Pickens on February 24, 2013 | 1 Comment »
NYC natural gas pizza truck
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg almost burned the roof of his mouth on a steaming slice of pizza from a food truck this week. I was among the reporters in attendance who yelled for him to wait for it to cool.
Posted in Carbon, Climate, Economy, Electricity, Energy policy, Environment, Green innovation, Investment, Solar power, Wind energy, tagged GOOG on February 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I work down on Wall Street where the lingering effects of Superstorm Sandy are the dozens of vacant buildings still being rehabbed from flooding. Those blackened windows don’t just mean displaced workers, they mean lost jobs and businesses.
Posted in Carbon, Climate, Economy, Electricity, Energy efficiency, Energy policy, Environment, Investment, tagged carbon, renewables, solar, UN, US on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A lack of carbon legislation, and waning support for green energy on Capital Hill, has created strange bedfellows in the energy development world. The U.N. and the Sierra Club recently reached out to clean tech business leaders, some of whom are red state Republicans, who don’t believe in man-made climate change, to form strategic partnerships.
Posted in Energy policy, Environment on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New York City smog
I recently saw Mayor Mike Bloomberg speak about making clean air in New York City part of his legacy, and found out that apartment building boilers are among of the worst culprits in the city for pollution.
Posted in Climate, Energy policy, Environment, tagged EPA, Texas, West Virginia on January 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mountaintop mine, flickr/creative commons
Who calls the shots about air pollution and water pollution in the U.S.? Is it elected officials or appointed bureaucrats?
Posted in Carbon, Climate, Energy policy, Environment, tagged Harvard, Millennial, Ulrich Beck on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Harvard Crimson
Natasha Whitney started the Green Beat for the Harvard Crimson, she’s part of the Millennial Generation – who will be running the world in the next decade.
Posted in Carbon, Environment, Story of the week, tagged Berkeley County, Blue Source, Santee Cooper on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Osaka City Maishima Incineration Plant
I visited a waste-to-energy plant last week in Rahway, N.J. that wasn’t as beautiful as this one in Osaka, Japan.
Posted in Climate, Environment, tagged Climategate, Heartland Institute, National Academy of Science on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Star-Ledger newsroom on Munchmobile Day.
Posted in Carbon, Environment, Nuclear power, tagged Clean Water Act, CSWRCB, EPA on May 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Inside an old cooling tower showing lattice structure
Could it be that an EPA call to action actually led to action? In the case of the Clean Water Act it seems so.
