April 18, 2013
by Radhika Khosla
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Radhika Khosla, Staff Scientist, India Initiative , New York
The 2013 Clean Energy Ministerial concluded today in New Delhi, with ministers from more than 20 countries meeting to discuss our energy future. As the discussions acknowledg… Continue reading
March 15, 2013
by MoreRecycling
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President Obama is scheduled to deliver his first energy speech today, and is expected to seek the creation of an Energy Security Trust that would primarily focus on R&D. Continue reading
December 19, 2012
by Elizabeth Shope
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Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C.
This blog was jointly written with NRDC intern Olly Merrill
The State Department has indicated that it will soon release a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Keystone… Continue reading
August 3, 2012
by Amrita Batra
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Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco
Over 680 million Indians across 20 of India’s 28 states were affected by the world’s largest power outage this week. While fortunately… Continue reading
May 29, 2012
by Radhika Khosla
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Radhika Khosla, Welch Environmental Innovation Fellow, New York
India now ranks second in the world for area under green building cover, pointing to the country’s impressive growth in green and energy efficient spaces over the las… Continue reading
May 22, 2012
by Rocky Kistner
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Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC
Despite all the industry hype over jobs and purported energy security benefits from building the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline—benefits a Brooklyn bridge-buil… Continue reading
January 30, 2012
by Jake Schmidt
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Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC
Twenty-two high level representatives have just released their report – Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing—which sets out specific … Continue reading
December 15, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
HidroAysén, the company proposing to build five hydroelectric dams on two of Chile’s wildest rivers in Patagonia, made the route for the project’s transmission li… Continue reading
October 18, 2011
by Liz Barratt-Brown
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Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC
In a New York Times video opinion piece posted today, Robert Redford gives an impassioned pitch to the President to deny the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. In a three minute… Continue reading
May 10, 2011
by Amanda Maxwell
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Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Yesterday, Chile’s environmental authorities approved HidroAysén’s proposal to build five dams on two of Patagonia’s wildest rivers, the Baker and the Pascua. The 11-to-one v… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 23, 2011
by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. USA Today published an important story about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The article outlines the… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 18, 2011
by Nathanael Greene
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I’m in Rio De Janerio today on my first full day of a 9 day trip to explore the impacts on biofuels policy here in Brazil and back home in the US on land-use change here. As I wrote about earlier this week, the trip was organized by IATP and includes a… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 11, 2011
by Sasha Lyutse
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Two bills were introduced this week in the U.S. Senate that would stop support for bad biofuels and save taxpayers billions this year alone. Both efforts, one led by Senator Feinstein and the other by Senators Coburn and Cardin, would repeal the main c… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 3, 2011
by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will arrive in Washington D.C. late this week for meetings with President Obama and other U.S. officials. As in the past, energy will be on the agenda. For the United States, this means clean energy. As President … Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 20, 2011
by Michael Davidson
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On the second day of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington, leaders in energy and climate from both countries concluded a far-reaching strategic forum assessing the benefits and prospects for cooperation in these areas. The two… Continue reading
Share on FacebookNovember 24, 2010
by Shravya Reddy
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India will join other countries next week at Cancun to try and work towards solutions for global climate change. Over the past year India has already shown leadership on this critical problem, and we expect that it will continue to be positive and proa… Continue reading
Share on FacebookNovember 20, 2010
by Shravya Reddy
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Climate Change
‘India and America are Indispensable Partners’
“President Obama told India’s legislators in his address to Parliament, ‘We valued India’s important role at Copenhagen, where, for the first time, all major economie… Continue reading
July 9, 2010
by Laurie Johnson
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Part I: The report
According to the GOP, a “new” study released by the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) purportedly shows that comprehensive climate and energy legislation would be a disaster for Michigan. Curiously, ther… Continue reading