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Cultivating Clean Energy The Promise of Algae Biofuels: Issue Paper; Algae-derived gasoline, diesel and jet fuel sound like the imaginings of science fiction, but a growing number of entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and policy makers are working to develop the technologies needed to provide large quantities of biofuels with potentially minimal environmental impacts. This NRDC report takes the big picture view by creating a framework for understanding the environmental challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for this nascent industry.
Driving It Home: Choosing the Right Path for Fueling North America's Transportation Future Choosing the Right Path for Fueling North America's Transportation Future: Report; North America faces an energy crossroads. With the world fast approaching the end of cheap, plentiful conventional oil, we must choose between developing ever-dirtier sources of fossil fuels -- at great cost to our health and environment -- or setting a course for a more sustainable energy future of clean, renewable fuels. This June 2007 report explores the full scale of the damage done by attempts to extract oil from liquid coal, oil shale, and tar sands; examines the risks for investors of gambling on these dirty fuel sources; and lays out solutions for guiding us toward a cleaner fuel future.

All Tags [ View Popular Tags ]:: boreal forest; cap 2.0; cap and trade; energy efficiency; gas prices; global warming; global warming and health; global warming and the economy; health; liquid coal; military sonar; oil shale; tar sands; water; western water; wildlife; wolves; ab 32; beaches; biofuels; biogems; birds; bottom trawling; bpa; buffalo; business; california; carbon capture and storage; children's health; china; cites; coal; compact fluorescent lighting; congress; dams; diesel exhaust; drinking water; drought; ethanol; farming; fish & fishing; floods; florida; forests; global warming legislation; green buildings; habitat preservation; health effects of pollution; hurricane katrina; hybrid; illegal logging; integrated pest management; international; marine mammals; mercury; mountaintop removal mining; nanotechnology; natural gas; new york; nuclear energy; nuclear waste; nuclear weapons; overfishing; parks; patagonia; pesticides; pesticides; polar bears; public transportation; renewable energy; rocky mountains; salmon; smart growth; solar power; stormwater; tahuamanu; vehicles; water pollution; whales; wilderness preservation; wind power; yellowstone

DOs and DON’Ts for Creating Carbon Price Safeguards: As the Senate takes up energy and climate legislation, many are considering the best approach to meet a strong cap on carbon emissions while assuring that carbon allowance prices remain reasonable and that market abuses are prevented. The core...
Top 10 Reasons the Senate Should Pass Climate and Energy Legislation This Year: The House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) at the end of June. The House bill is not perfect (no legislation is), but it addresses concerns about cost, consumer protection, regional impacts, and industrial competitiveness...
Analysis of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES): An analysis of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), outlining the potential of the legislation for creating millions of jobs, breaking our dependence on oil, and reducing the pollution that causes global warming. The...

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