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TVA's spin on its overpaid CEO

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:47 PM
Today, the Knoxville News Sentinel ran a press release (cleverly disguised as a news story) on the excessive and outlandish pay of TVA's superfluous CEO. The agency is trying to spin Tom Kilgore's $3.27 million pay package as "conservative" compared to
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Bank of America to halt loans for mountaintop removal

Monday, December 08, 2008 7:56 PM
Well, color me surprised : Bank of America Corp will sharply cut lending to coal mining companies that take the tops off mountains, following pressure from groups that call the practice an environmental hazard. The move by the top U.S. bank represents
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Global energy outlook: not so great

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:34 PM
The International Energy Agency has published an updated forecast of the world's energy consumption and the current trajectory of our changing climate, and the outlook isn't very optimistic. The usually staid organization opens its World Energy Outlook
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Why Pelosi and Reid need to go

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:51 PM
Here's why Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid need to be replaced as Congressional leaders, encapsulated in a single sentence : Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure yesterday and agreed to let the ban on offshore oil drilling expire, a decision
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Energy consciousness

Monday, September 22, 2008 9:00 PM
Paolo Scaroni is the CEO of the Italian oil company ENI, one of the 25 largest companies in the world (it sells fuel in Europe under the Agip brand, among many other things). He had this to say about American oil consumption: If Americans used the same
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Pelosi caves yet again

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:28 PM
Once again, Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated her utter lack of leadership skills by caving to the GOP; this time, it's on offshore oil drilling : House Republican Leader John Boehner on Tuesday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call lawmakers back into
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Gore calls for totally clean electricity within 10 years

Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:50 PM
Today, Al Gore gave a speech at George Washington University in which he called for a massive push to transform our energy economy; he audaciously suggested that we can and must convert 100 percent of our electricity generation to clean sources within
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The phantom promise of offshore drilling

Monday, July 14, 2008 10:17 PM
Today, President Bush rescinded an executive order signed by his father which affirmed the ban on offshore oil drilling (with the exception of a small area off Southern California and a specific region of the Gulf of Mexico). The move was almost entirely
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Byron Dorgan, oil speculators, and the supply question

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:25 PM
Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is pushing for tighter regulation on oil speculators : Every day, 20 times more oil is traded than delivered. Because of the way energy trades are regulated (or not regulated), speculators control vast amounts of oil by putting
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Three things that don't surprise me

Monday, June 30, 2008 9:50 PM
Three stories showed up today, and none of them should come as a surprise: 1) Today is the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska event ; on this day in 1908, something (either a small asteroid or a small comet) exploded in the air over Siberia. Although it
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