US GAO http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11143.pdf [From Summary] The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) is responsible for one of the world’s largest cleanup programs: treatment and disposal of radioactive and hazardous waste created as a by-product of nuclear weapons production and energy research at sites across the country… GAO was asked to (1) describe … Continue reading »
Posted on March 15, 2011 …
An Anatomy of the Crude Oil Pricing System
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies / by Bassam Fattouh http://www.oxfordenergy.org/pdfs/WPM40.pdf [From Summary Report] The current oil pricing system has survived for almost a quarter of a century, longer than the OPEC administered system. While some of the details have changed, such as Saudi Arabia‟s decision to replace Dated Brent with Brent futures in pricing its … Continue reading »
EPA Proposes to Defer GHG Permitting Requirements for Industries that Use Biomass
US EPA http://www.epa.gov/nsr/actions.html#mar11 Proposed Deferral for CO2 emissions from Bioenergy and Other Biogenic Sources under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Title V Programs and Guidance for Determining Best Available Control Technology for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Bioenergy Production March 11, 2011 – This proposed rule would defer, for a period of three … Continue reading »
California’s Climate Policy-A Model?
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies / by David Buchan http://www.oxfordenergy.org/pdfs/EV56.pdf [From Executive Summary] California’s energy and climate policies deserve study for three new reasons. First, the impasse on climate legislation at the US federal level leaves climate action largely to individual states, of which California is the biggest. Second, California’s politicians have taken climate policy … Continue reading »
