News
- July 11, 2012 |
- CalCEF Press
- VC fund floats proposal for California auction revenue use
- Carbon Finance, Gloria Gonazalez
- The auction revenues generated by California’s cap-and-trade programme should be directed to a Green Bank that will invest in infrastructure and generate dividends for state residents and corporate entities, according to a new proposal. Americas News – 11-Jul-12
- June 29, 2012 |
- Policy
- Big News for Renewable Energy: FERC Rules for Wind, Solar, Storage
- Forbes, Erica Giles
- Like a Jedi responding to changing events by striving to bring balance to the Force, theFederal Energy Regulatory Commissionunder Chairman Jon Wellinghoff has been rapidly reshaping the formerly sclerotic electricity sector to make it responsive to new technologies. Some of the sector’s fossil fuel-centric rules left a high barrier to ... more ›
- June 26, 2012 |
- Policy
- What the failure of Rio+20 means for the climate
- Time, Brian walsh
- Expectations were extremely modest for the Rio+20 Earth Summit that ended last week—and the best thing that might be said about the conference is that it managed to clear that very low bar. Despite the presence of more than 50,000 people and about 100 heads of state and government—though not, ... more ›
- June 26, 2012 |
- Policy
- Court Backs E.P.A Over Emissions Limits Intended to Reduce Global Warming
- NY Times, Matt Wald
- WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that heat-trapping gases from industry and vehicles endanger public health, dealing a decisive blow to companies and states that had sued to block agency rules. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of ... more ›
- June 22, 2012 |
- Technology
- Tesla Model S Customers Drive Off
- GigaOm
- Electric car maker Tesla Motors officially handed off the first ten of its Model S electric cars at a launch event at its factory in Fremont, Calif. on Friday. Workers filled a corner of the factory and surrounded a line of the cars as the first customers accepted their keys ... more ›
