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Searching for the most compelling clean energy innovators
Wherever one looks, from China to India to Denmark to the United States, the race to innovate to a cleaner energy future is on. The more President Obama talks about clean energy nnovation the more U.S....
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Coal’s health costs at least $140 billion per year: ‘heads in the sand’
How many credible studies will it take before elected officials and regulators acknowledge that coal has a quantifiable, net negative, impact on the health of human beings and the U.S. economy?The...
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Fallout from Japan’s nuclear crisis
How will Japan fill the gap left by disabled nuclear power plants? And how will other countries with nuclear power plants react to risks posed by GE’s boiling water reactors in earthquake-prone...
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Tax toxins – not carbon dioxide – from coal-fired power plants
Buried inside Robert Bryce’s relatively new book entitled Power Hungry is a call to “aggressively pursue taxes or caps on the emissions of neurotoxins, particularly those that come from burning coal”...
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Low natural gas prices are driving coal gasification out of business
If three planned gasification plants in Illinois are any indication, the transformation of coal into synthetic natural gas is staring at the destruction of their business model due primarily to low gas...
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Federal Court’s Upholding EPA on Greenhouse Gases Boosts Opportunity for...
A federal appeals court has done for natural gas and renewable sources of electricity that no executive branch stimulus package could ever hope to do: raise the bar higher still to justify building...
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10 reasons to create a carbon tax
The possible revival of serious talks about a U.S. carbon tax should take thought-leaders to the most recent credible analysis in a book finished earlier this year by Shi-Ling Hsu, a professor at the...
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With Obama’s win, cleaner energy has another chance, but these questions loom
Just because President Obama won four more years, doesn’t mean the next four will be any easier. Sure, it’s now his legacy he is beginning to focus on. But there are tall hurdles even the election...
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Carbon Separation and Capture for Power Generation: Searching for the Holy Grail
If there is a Holy Grail of efforts around the world to maintain coal in the power generation mixes of electric utilities, the technologies offering a way to separate and capture carbon dioxide have...
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Southeast Energy News is now capturing the region’s top energy headlines and...
A project of Midwest Energy News with funding from the MacArthur Foundation and technical support from the Investigative News Network, Southeast Energy News is an effort to build a standalone news...
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