US House Republican Caucus http://appropriations.house.gov/_files/EnergyWaterDPOSTED_xml.pdf [From a Politico article by David Rogers ] House Republicans unveiled a scaled-back $30.6 billion energy and water budget Wednesday that makes deep cuts from energy efficiency and renewable energy programs while trying to stabilize science and defense investments within tighter spending caps. Total energy and water appropriations would drop … Continue reading »
Posted on June 1, 2011 …
A Survey of Company Perspectives on Low-Carbon Business Innovation
Pew Center on Global Climate Change http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/survey-results-paper_2.pdf [From the Survey] The Pew Center on Global Climate Change conducted a survey of low-carbon business innovation in winter 2010-11. Thirty-five companies, ranging in size from $600 million to $285 billion in annual revenues and with an average annual R&D expenditure of $1.4 billion, completed the survey… The … Continue reading »
The Motor Vehicle Supply Chain: Effects of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
Congressional Research Service http://bit.ly/joAzzV The March 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan with the most powerful natural disaster in Japan’s modern history…The effect of these disasters has been first and foremost borne by Japanese automakers, which closed many of their Japanese assembly plants for several weeks as they assessed … Continue reading »
