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Obama's 80 Percent Clean Energy Goal: Who's He Kidding?

 Arguably the central provision of President Obama's State of the Union address last night was the proposal to generate 80 percent of the nation's electricity from clean energy sources by 2035 -- including nuclear…See More
Jan 26, 2011
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Memo to Hu and Obama: Water and Energy Choke Points Merit Time at the China-U.S. Summit

Washington’s foreign policy community is all aflutter anticipating the meaning and outcome of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s three-day summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, which starts today. But while the two heads of state focus on resolving what pries them apart, both nations share a dangerous confrontation within their borders over energy demand and water supply—offering a matchless opportunity for new kinds of cooperation on policy, technology, business, and trade.The collision between…See More
Jan 18, 2011
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Talk of Tianjin Climate Conference: China and U.S. Are Electrifying The Car

TIANJIN, China - Whatever the differences that irked delegates from China and the United States during the six days of climate negotiations that ended here on Saturday, divisions principally defined by how each would control carbon emissions and measure progress, the unmistakable conclusion reached by most of the delegates and participants is how closely tied the two nations are to each the other.Lying quietly below the nuanced diplomatic language of frustration and distrust expressed all week…See More
Oct 11, 2010
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Despite Divide at Tianjin Climate Conference, U.S. and China Cooperating on Advanced Coal Projects

TIANJIN, China - Though Chinese workers this week celebrated the 61st anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, a holiday season as significant as July 4 in the United States, a swarm of construction laborers at China's GreenGen coal-fired gasification powerplant were busy welding pipes, fitting massive joints, and bendingsteel for forms to be filled with concrete.Since construction on the $1 billion project began in June 2009, said Li Liangshi, the deputy chief engineer,…See More
Oct 8, 2010
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Coal Is King In China, And Top Priority For Engineers Determined To Lower Climate Risks

TIANJIN, China – This industrious nation’s allegiance to construction projects of massive scale is as familiar to the world as the 2,500-year-old, 5,500-mile Great Wall of China, which protected the country’s northern frontier, and as imposing as the wide moats and towering red stone walls of the 600-year-old Forbidden City at the heart of Beijing.Still, international visitors attending China’s first U.N. climate change conference are struck by the immensity of the brand new polished marble and…See More
Oct 6, 2010
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In Tianjin, China and U.S. Similarities Overshadow Differences

On opposite sides of the Pacific, leaders of the world's two biggest economies and carbon polluters are plainly thinking about clean energy to power up their economies and cool the climate.In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced their intention to extend vehicle efficiency standards that went into effect in April in order meet a national goal of 60 miles per gallon average fuel economy by 2025.President Obama, in an…See More
Oct 5, 2010
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Oct 4, 2010
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The Next Era of Hydrocarbon Development: Well Underway and Dirtier Than the First

The most direct path to the nation’s newest big oil and gas fields is U.S. Highway12, two lanes of black top that unfolds from Grays Harbor in Washington State and heads east across the top of the country to Detroit. The 2,500-mile route, parts of which were used by Lewis and Clark to open the American frontier, has quickly become an essential supply line for the energy industry. With astonishing speed and influence, American oil companies, Canadian pipeline builders, and investors from all…See More
Oct 1, 2010
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In Era of Climate Change and Water Scarcity, Meeting National Energy Demand Confronts Major Impediments

Photo © Brent Stirton / Reportage by Getty Images for Circle of BlueThe All-American Canal, the main water conduit from the Colorado River into the Imperial Dam, flows through the Imperial Valley, Calif. The U.S. consumes about 100 billion gallons of water a day. Nearly 85 percent is used for crop and livestock production. Of the 16.1 billion gallons that remain,…See More
Sep 29, 2010
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Before Big China Climate Conference, New Senate Support For Clean Energy

I'll be in Beijing later this week, and then on to Tianjin to cover China's first UN-sponsored climate summit, which begins October 4. Before leaving, though, I wanted to note that on September 22, a group of Republican and Democratic Senators sent a rare bipartisan signal to the world that the United States has not abandoned the hard work of reducing climate emissions and speeding the clean energy transition. The group introduced…See More
Sep 28, 2010
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Keith Schneider posted a blog post

North Dakota's Unconventional Oil Boom and Scarce Water At Risk

Over at Circle of Blue, where I serve as senior editor, we've been working on Choke Point: U.S., a series of original articles about the tightening contest between rising energy demand and diminishing supplies of fresh water. In our latest chapter, we explored the big boom in oil and gas production on the northern Great Plains, where…See More
Sep 16, 2010
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Keith Schneider posted a blog post

Energy Department Blocks Disclosure of Road Map to Relieve Critical U.S. Energy-Water Choke Points

Sep 9, 2010
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Copenhagen Fallout: Climate Action Collapses in U.S. Senate

Until December 2009, the idea of acting to cool the Earth was on a roll. High points included 2007 Nobel Prizes for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's breakthrough science and for Al Gore's astonishing work to elevate global warming to an international priority, They also included Barack Obama's winning 2008 presidential election, and the formation of global online grassroots activism led by 350.org and…See More
Jul 23, 2010
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Science Vindicated as Senate Edges Closer to Climate and Energy Debate

The 20-year global campaign to cool the planet, one of the most influential civic movements in human history, was built on two points of reference.The first is visible evidence on every continent of escalating temperatures, melting ice, more ferocious storms, fiercer droughts, and deadlier floods. The second is the wealth of scientific data that proves Mother Nature's erratic behavior is no accident. It's the result of the combustion of fossil fuels that is steadily increasing concentrations of…See More
Jul 8, 2010
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Jun 30, 2010
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Obama Vows To Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Passing and Signing Climate and Energy Legislation

Given the emotional reserve of a man whose aides once referred to as "no drama Obama," the president is getting pretty fired up about energy. On Wednesday President Obama concluded an all hands cabinet meeting at the White House by publicly declaring again his resolve to develop a "new energy strategy that the American people desperately want.""It is time…See More
Jun 24, 2010
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What is your name?
Keith Schneider
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US Climate Action Network
What country are you based in?
United States
Please summarise your areas of climate-change expertise (in terms of subjects and geographical areas)
Policy, politics, transportation, agriculture, energy, climate science, communications, journalism, water use, online techniques and tools, multi-media, land use, sprawl, urban design in United States and globally.
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231-920-0745
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I am media and communications director of the U.S. Climate Action Network, the largest alliance of climate action organizations in the United States. I am a writer for the New York Times, and contributor to a number of other online platforms, reporting on climate and related issues. I am senior editor of Circle of Blue, the best source of online reporting on the global freshwater crisis. I write a blog on these issues, Modeshift.org. I have 30 years of experience as a journalist, advocate, communications strategist, public interest strategist.

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Obama's 80 Percent Clean Energy Goal: Who's He Kidding?

 

Arguably the central provision of President Obama's State of the Union address last night was the proposal to generate 80 percent of the nation's electricity from clean energy sources by 2035 --…

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Posted on January 26, 2011 at 21:14

Memo to Hu and Obama: Water and Energy Choke Points Merit Time at the China-U.S. Summit

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Washington’s foreign policy community is all aflutter anticipating the meaning and outcome of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s three-day summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, which starts today. But while the two heads of state focus on resolving what pries them apart, both nations share a dangerous confrontation within their borders over energy demand and water supply—offering a matchless opportunity for new kinds of cooperation on policy, technology,…

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Posted on January 18, 2011 at 15:09

Talk of Tianjin Climate Conference: China and U.S. Are Electrifying The Car

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TIANJIN, China - Whatever the differences that irked delegates from China and the United States during the six days of climate negotiations that ended here on Saturday, divisions principally defined by how each would control carbon emissions and measure progress, the unmistakable conclusion reached by most of the delegates and participants is how closely tied the two nations are to each the other.



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Posted on October 11, 2010 at 13:38

Despite Divide at Tianjin Climate Conference, U.S. and China Cooperating on Advanced Coal Projects



TIANJIN, China - Though Chinese workers this week celebrated the 61st anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, a holiday season as significant as July 4 in the United States, a swarm of

construction laborers at China's GreenGen coal-fired gasification power

plant were busy welding pipes, fitting massive joints, and bending

steel for forms to be filled with concrete.



Since construction on the $1 billion project…

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Posted on October 8, 2010 at 16:00

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At 18:12 on May 27, 2010, James A. Holtkamp said…
Keith -

I am very late in responding - I apologize. Tthe resistance I am seeing to clean energy in the US is mostly related to the siting of an energy project, whether it be on lands with unique values (such as endangered species habitats) or more prosaic NIMBY ( such as the resistance to offshoe wind projects because of the impairment of scenic values. Another big area of resistance is to the building of the additional transmission infrastucture to brong the celen electrons to the load centers.

- Jim Holtkamp
At 19:14 on March 29, 2010, Steven Weissman said…
This is certainly an issue that we are focusing on a lot at the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, and one I dealt with in my former life as an administrative law judge for the California PUC, where the last matter I handled was a very controversial transmission line arguably related to renewable energy development. Would be happy to talk through these issues with you and others. My phone: 510/642-0508.
At 1:56 on March 26, 2010, Ron Steffens said…
I'm familiar with the issues, the lands currently being proposed for industrial wind farms (and opposed by grassroots activists), and know some of those who are most concerned. Can't say I'm an expert, but would love to talk.

I'm following this particular issue now: http://www.energizevermont.org/notes/index/show?noteKey=State_Pursues_RINA_Designation_for_Ira%2FPoultney.

I'm in the office, 10-12 EDT Friday, 802 287 8294. Or at your convenience.

I'm intrigued by Circle of Blue, also.

- Ron Steffens
At 22:55 on March 25, 2010, Richard Littlemore said…
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At 22:33 on March 25, 2010, Richard Littlemore said…
On the face of it, yes. Don't know what additional assistance I can provide at the moment, but I'd be delighted to be part of the conversation and to help where I can.
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