Michael Mann - a Penn State climatologist caught up in the so-called Climategate controversy - has been fully exonerated by a committee of faculty members of any deviation from standard scientific practices. It’s “time for some major media apologies and retractions,” says ClimateProgress.

The Wall Street Journal spoke with Dan Reicher, Google’s clean energy czar, about his support for a Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) that would pump capital into the emerging clean energy economy. Reicher is an Apollo board member.

A piece at Politico takes an in-depth look at Senator Jeff Bingaman (D. - New Mexico) and his “utilities only” carbon capping bill.

The Union of Concerned Scientists says two energy bills in the Senate shift the financial risks of building new nuclear power plants from the industry to taxpayers, while potentially hindering the growth of cleaner forms of energy.

Green For All’s Dirty Energy Week of Independence Action (July 1-7) calls on Americans to stand in solidarity with Gulf Coast residents hardest hit by the BP oil spill and rise up against “deadly fossil fuels that are polluting our nation and costing Americans their livelihood.”

A piece at Grist takes a look at some of television’s most prominent climate change-skeptical meteorologists.

Designed by Lockheed Martin for NASA, the Supersonic Green Machine promises to emit less CO2 than its Mach 1 airplane predecessor.

Local Green: Austin, Texas and New York City were added to a list of at least five cities where GM plans on launching its electric Chevy Volt.

At a forum held in Cambridge, Massachusetts this week, business leaders expressed support for Cape Wind - a project that could soon become the nation’s first offshore wind farm.

–Christopher Greenspan

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Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) wrote an op-ed detailing The National Conservation, Environment and Energy Independence Act - a bipartisan piece of legislation that has 130 supporters in the House. But Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope believes “Republicans in the House are beginning to indicate they will refuse to support the bill.”

The Democrat-authored Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act will hit the House floor next week.

MarketWatch looks at Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s energy and environmental record.

Senator John McCain’s plan to build 45 nuclear power plants by 2030 could cost $315 billion “with taxpayers bearing much of the financial risk.”

The American News Project created a short film on the politics of the Republican “drill here, drill now” message.

Millions of dollars have been invested in thin-film solar startups in the past few weeks.

Local Green: The Oklahoma Corporation Commission unanimously approved OG&E’s renewable energy program, which includes a high-capacity transmission line and raising wind energy production in the state by at least 400 percent.

In Massachusetts, the “Marshfield Energy Challenge” is testing a South Shore town’s ability to conserve and produce clean energy.

Green Jobs Now - a national day of action to build a green economy - is on September 27th.

–Christopher Greenspan