I recently wrote a post about the BP Republicans in Congress. Those are the no-brainers like Joe Barton who apologized to the now infamous oil (spilling) company because President Obama took some semblance of leadership on the issue by forcing BP to set aside billions for the relief effort.

The actual list of BP Republicans was [...]

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While a bill proposed by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman has received most of the climate change attention due to its controversial, if all but dead cap-and-trade provisions, a separate energy bill has been fumbling around Congress too. This bill, The American Clean Energy Leadership Act (ACELA), is, as per usual in Congress, widely [...]

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We’ve been talking about the Capstone Turbine Corporation a long time ago. They used their turbines to everything from cars to solar generators. Now, Capstone and HelioFocus (a company specialized in solar concentrators) announced today their first product that converts sunlight into electricity. The solar receiver is from Heliofocus and the turbine from Capstone.

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