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Shell’s Self-serving Scenarios
By Carol Pierson Holding According to Shell’s New Lens Scenarios, we’re headed for a carbon free future, where solar will be the dominant energy source by 2100. The report got pretty universally upbeat press, praised in business and even … Continue reading
Environmental Information Agency CO2 Emissions Data Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
By Carol Pierson Holding Last month, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) reported that for the first three months of 2012, CO2 emissions fell to about 1992 levels, primarily because coal companies switched to natural gas. Another boost … Continue reading
Who Pays the Costs for Fracking?
By Karen Dam Debates on natural gas persist, whether it will become a major (clean) energy source, and whether the growing means to attain it-hydraulic fracturing (or fracking)-is safe and sustainable. Pricing, infrastructure, air quality, and environmental contamination are … Continue reading
My Top Eleven Takeaways from WSJ’s Conference on Business and Sustainability
By Cynthia Figge A week ago I attended the Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics Conference. This event was brimming with over 200 CEOs, entrepreneurs, industry experts and policymakers, discussing profitability, innovation, and smarter uses of energy. The focus was on the … Continue reading
McKibben’s Extreme Energy: “Why Not Frack?”
By Carol Pierson Holding Bill McKibben, the environmentalist, prolific author, former New Yorker writer and founder of grassroots green organization 350.org, wrote a review of two books and a film on hydraulic fracturing for last week’s New York Review … Continue reading
