July 9, 2008: The G8 On Climate Change
A former E.P.A. official has accused Vice President Dick Cheney’s office of manipulating congressional testimony in order to play down the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions. The Los Angeles Times reports that the charges could be a boon states that have been trying to set their own emissions standards.
On Tuesday, G8 leaders agreed to an ambiguous pledge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Earth2Tech notes that the G8 Declaration on Environment and Climate Change names biofuels and nuclcear energy as fuel sources of the future but neglects to mention wind and solar.
Campaign Watch: Sen. Barack Obama has responded to to a series of Republican National Committee ads critical of his energy positions with his own:
Plus: The Washington Post on this election cycle’s negative ads.
Javier Sierra of the Sierra Club asserts that McCain’s energy plan is no solution.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a supposedly suppressed World Bank report that blamed biofuels for 75 percent of worldwide food price increases was actually a working paper produced by only one member of a team researching the topic.
Kathy Cooper reports on last month’s World Wind Energy Energy Conference in the online magazine World Changing.
Local Green: Local power co-ops and Western Illinois University are testing the feasibility of a wind energy project in southern Illinois.
City Limits investigates New York City’s green-collar job potential. Also in New York: Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a plan to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emission by 30 percent over the next 9 years.
A new poll finds the majority of rural Nebraskans support “aggressive” development of renewable energy, though the state is one of only 18 that has “no standard to require such development.”
San Diego aims to become a leader in “cleantech.”
Forbes looks at the role of energy efficient design as a power source.
–Christopher Greenspan
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