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Will the Government approve a Renewable Energy Standard?
It looks like carbon cap is going to remain a dream and not a reality for environmentalists, but there is hope that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s energy bill will cover more than an oil spill measure. Last week Reid said his bill does not include a renewable energy standard (RES) or a mandatory percentage of the country’s electricity coming from green sources. Today a few Democrats and even a Republican have shown that they are keen on including an RES. Republican Senator Sam Brownback (Kansas) said though he’s against the carbon cap in energy bill, he’s in favor of a national RES.
Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas said that he was still against a carbon cap in an energy bill. Kansas produces 2.9% of its electricity from renewable sources and is a wind rich state. Environmentalists are pushing aggressively for strong RES in any energy bill, but many times polices on renewable energies are forced to stop and start again. Continue reading
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Leading companies look to Climate Bill for green job stimulus
NextEra Energy, Levi Strauss & Co., Tetra Pak Inc & Diversy again, make a call for the Climate Bill. As the senate begins its session on clean energy legislation, the country’s businesses are again asking for a limit on fossil fuel pollution. They say such a policy is crucial for creation of job opportunities and also for the provision of regulatory certainty, that businesses require for planning and investing in the long term. The CEO of NextEra Energy (parent company of Florida power and light), Lew Hay said the U.S is still in dire need of a long term national strategy despite years of debates and half measures. He said as a result the country lags behind other countries in construction and exportation of the clean energy economy of the future. He further said if the country is going to continue leading, there is a need for a new approach. The fist and crucial step of the American Power Act is to determine a price on carbon emissions. Continue reading
