Recent articles about energy and the environment

(mostly from The New York Times and The Economist)

 

12/04/03

“If Geology is Destiny, Then Russia Is in Trouble” (NYT)

“Kyoto Protocol in Peril” (Editorial, NYT)

“Making Sure the Money Goes Where It’s Supposed To” (NYT)

“With Oil Prices High, OPEC Is Ready to Defer Supply Cut” (NYT)

“Into Thin Air: Kyoto Accord May Not Die (or Matter)” (NYT)

“E.P.A. Drafts New Rules for Emissions from Power Plants” (NYT)

 

12/03/03

U.S. Proposes Easing Rules on Emissions of Mercury” (NYT)

Russia to Reject Pact on Climate, Putin Aide Says” (NYT)

 

11/28/03

“At Least, Strengthen the Grid” (Editorial,  NYT)

 

11/20/03

“Origins of a Blackout” (Editorial, NYT)

“Blackout Report Blames Ohio Utility” (NYT)

“A new energy bill: The $100 billion turkey” (Economist)

“Central Asia and the Caucasus: The devil’s tears” (Economist)

 

11/19/03

China’s Message on Energy” (Editorial, NYT)

“Consensus on Energy Bill Arose One Project at a Time” (NYT)

“Size of Proposed Tax Breaks in Energy Bill Startles Experts” (NYT)

 

11/18/03

China Set to Act on Fuel Economy” (NYT)

“Negotiators Mark Deal on $30 Billion Energy Bill” (NYT)

“A Shortage of Energy” (Editorial, NYT)

“New View of Data Supports Human Link to Global Warming” (NYT)

 

11/17/03

“14 States File Suit in Attempt to Block New E.P.A. Rules” (NYT)

“Huge effort needed for alternative fuels to work” (USA Today)

 

11/16/03

“Energy Bill Would Let Electric Industry Set Rules for Grid” (NYT)

“Energy Bil Could Upend Suits Filed Over a Gas Additive” (NYT)

 

11/15/03

“Accord Reached by Republicans for Energy Bill” (NYT)

 

11/14/03

“House and Senate Reach Deal on Broad Energy Bill” (NYT)

“Land Worth Leaving Alone” (NYT)

 

11/12/03

“Will Hydrogen Clear the Air? Maybe Not, Say Some” (NYT)

“In Search of Nuclear Control” (Editorial, NYT)

“Report on Blackout Is Said to Describe Failure to React” (NYT)

 

11/11/03

“Delay on Energy Bill Vote Threatens Adjournment Plan” (NYT)

“U.N. Agency Reports Iran Made Small Amount of Plutonium” (NYT)

Russia Ready to Help Iran With Nuclear Plant” (NYT)

 

11/9/03

“States Planning Their Own Suits on Power Plants” (NYT)

Russia’s Oil Industry, Caught in a Tug of War” (NYT)

 

11/8/03

“The Fruits of Secrecy” (Editorial, NYT)

 

11/6/03

“Negotiators Resolve Dispute That Jeopardized Energy Bill” (NYT)

“With Silicon’s Help, a Change in Status for the Lowly Battery” (NYT)

“G.M. Puts Off Its Hybrids, Letting Ford Go First” (NYT)

“Lawyers at E.P.A. Say It Will Drop Pollution Cases” (NYT)

“Hot potato revisited: A lack-of-progress report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (Economist)

 

11/5/03

“Report Sees Vast Needs for Energy Capital” (NYT)

“Hybrids Are the Stars at Tokyo’s Auto Show” (NYT)

 

11/4/03

“Atomic Agency Chief Urges Global Controls on Nuclear Fuels” (NYT)

“Ways to Save the Planet and Get Healthy, Too” (NYT)

“As Earth Warms, the Hottest Issue is Energy” (NYT)

“Deep in the Amazon Forest, Vast Questions About Global Climate Change” (NYT)

 

11/3/03

“Amtrak’s Budgetary Crapshoot” (NYT)

 

11/1/03

“Promising Vote on Global Warming” (NYT)

 

10/31/03

“Senate Defeats Climate Bill, but Proponents See Silver Lining” (NYT)

Mexico Awards Contract to Seek Gas” (NYT)

“Bush Administration Steps Up Energy Bill Efforts” (NYT)

“An Oil Titan’s Next Challenge” (NYT)

 

10/30/03

“I.R.S. Clears Way for Fuel Tax Credits, Amid Doubts” (NYT)

“Michael Leavitt’s First Task” (NYT)

 

10/29/03

“The Warming Is Global but the Legislating, in the U.S., Is All Local” (NYT)

 

10/27/03

“Testing the Senate’s Mettle” (NYT)

 

10/26/03

“Congress Moves Toward Mandating Rules for Electricity” (NYT)

“Cutting Greenhouse Gases, or Not” (NYT)

 

10/23/03

“Nanopower: A new way of generating electricity” (Economist)

“Buried losses: The journey from plant to coal wastes a lot of energy” (Economist)

“OPEC: Still holding customers over a barrel” (Economist)

“The future of energy: The end of the Oil Age” (Economist)

“Amid Ruins of Iraqi Oil Wells, Investors See Field of Riches” (NYT)

 

10/22/03

China’s Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem” (NYT)

 

10/21/03

U.S. Nears Decision on Tax Credits for Producers of Synthetic Fuels” (NYT)

“Conflicting Views on Iraq’s Oil” (NYT)

“Flaw is Found in Plan to Bury Nuclear Waste” (NYT)

 

10/20/03

“Cut Reliance on Oil (Letter)” (NYT)

“Natural Gas or Nature in Canada’s Far North” (NYT)

“Snags Delay Final Version of Energy Bill” (NYT)

 

10/16/03

“Saudi Arabia’s Big Leap” (NYT)

 

10/14/03

“Global Energy Official Is Worried on Prices” (NYT)

“It’s Gas vs. Heritage in Navajo Country” (NYT)

 

10/13/03

“OPEC Asks Others to Cut Oil Output” (NYT)

 

10/11/03

“G.O.P. Leadership Interceding in Energy Talks” (NYT)

 

10/8/03

“U.S. Sees Gas Heating Costs Roughly at Last Year’s Levels” (NYT)

“A U.S. Gas Tax to Help Iraq?” (NYT)

 

10/7/03

“Global warming could jeopardize the fate of beer” (Collegian)

 

10/6/03

“Democrats’ Duty on Energy” (NYT)

“Oil Rush in Siberia Puts Other Treasures at Risk” (NYT)

 

10/5/03

“Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil” (NYT)

 

10/4/03

“Mayor Wants to Move Site of Power Plant” (NYT)

“States Plan Suit to Prod U.S. on Global Warming” (NYT)

 

10/2/03

“Sponsors Ease Bill on Gases That Warm the Climate” (NYT)

“North Korea Says Nuclear Fuel Rods Processes” (NYT)

“Like a candle in the wind: Why do the lights keep going out?” (Economist)

 

10/1/03

U.S. Trading of Emissions Starts Slowly” (NYT)

“Energy Department Seeks Power to Redefine Nuclear Waste” (NYT)

 

9/30/03

“Tough Going as Negotiators Hammer Out Energy Bill” (NYT)

 

9/29/03

“The Energy Bill Gets Worse” (NYT)

 

9/28/03

“Review of Environment Rules Finds Benefits Outweigh Costs” (NYT)

 

9/25/03

“Another pre-emptive strike: Why did OPEC chop its quotas?” (Economist)

“Your pipe or mine? China and Japan seek Russia’s oil” (Economist)

 

9/23/03

“The buzz on electricity: Penn State is prepared for outages, but still researching new energy options” (Collegian)

 

9/18/03

“After Heat Wave, Europe Gives Nuclear Power a Second Look,” (NYT)

 

9/17/03

“Bush Links Pollution Measure to His Effort to Create Jobs,” (NYT)

“After Heat Wave, Europe Gives Nuclear Power a Second Look,” (NYT)

 

9/16/03

“Bush Defends New Environmental Rules,” (NYT)

“Provision in Energy Bill Brings Unease in G.O.P.” (NYT)

 

9/13/03

“Baked Alaska on the Menu?” (NYT)

“Bush Seeks $2.1 Billion More For Iraqi Oil Industry?” (NYT)

 

9/12/03

“Democrats Complain of Exclusion From Talks on Energy Bill” (NYT)

“To Drill, or Not? (2 Letters)” (NYT)

 

9/11/03

“A vine idea: Electricity companies could soon be growing tomatoes as a sideline” (Economist)

“Highly flammable: Natural gas has become an explosive political issue (in Bolivia)” (Economist)

“Electricity in China: Power supply is failing to keep up” (Economist)

“Cape Cod: A row about wind power divides one of the prettiest bits of America” (Economist)

 

9/10/03

“Edward Teller is Dead at 95: Fierce Architect of H-Bomb” (NYT)

“A Popular Idea: Give Oil Money to the People Rather Than the Despots” (NYT)

“Casting a Cold Eye on Arctic Oil” (NYT)

 

9/9/03

“The Need for Coal” (NYT)

“Energy Project vs. Environmentalists in Peru” (NYT)

 

9/8/03

“Safety Problem at Nuclear Plants Is Cited” (NYT)

 

9/7/03

“Veteran Deal Makers Hopeful on Energy Bill” (NYT)

 

9/6/03

“Forging Links to Natural Gas From Abroad” (NYT)

“G.O.P. Makes Clear It Will Guide Energy Bill Conferees” (NYT)

 

9/5/03

“What Price Drilling?” (NYT)

 

9/4/03

“Solar cells come down to earth” (Economist)

“Hundreds of Rule Violations Tied to Possible Blackouts” (NYT)

 

9/3/03

“Saudi Arabia and Russia Sign Accord on Gas and Oil” (NYT)

 

9/2/03

“A Grizzly’s-Eye View of a Refuge That Oil Drillers Covet” (NYT)

“Backward on Energy” (NYT)

“Small Thoughts for a Global Grid” (NYT)

 

8/31/03

“A Case of Hurry Up and Take Your Time: Indian Point Forges Ahead with New Casks” (NYT)

“After the Flood” (NYT)

 

8/29/03

“E.P.A. Says It Lacks Power to Regulate Some Gases” (NYT)

 

8/28/03

“Wind Power’s New Current” (NYT)

“Administration Adopts Rule on Antipollution Exemption” (NYT)

 

8/23/03

“Fouling the Air” (NYT)

“Energy Bill Draws a Deeply Split Utilities Lobby” (NYT)

 

8/22/03

“Lack of Air-Conditioning Cited in France’s Death Toll” (NYT)

“Draft of Air Rule Is Said to Exempt Many Old Plants”’ (NYT)

 

8/20/03

“Humbled by Blackout, Congress Girds for Beyond-the-Beltway Energy Fight” (NYT)

“Venture to Drill for Gas and Build Pipeline Off China” (NYT)

“Ambitious Bush Plan Undone by Energy Politics” (NYT)

 

8/16/03

“Rippling Down the Grid” (NYT)

“Drunk on Power” (NYT)

 

8/15/03

“Power Failure Reveals a Creaky System, Energy Experts Believe” (NYT)

“When the Lights Went Out” (NYT)

 

8/14/03

“These fuelish things” (Economist)

“Where’s the spinach?” (Economist)

 

8/12/03

“Automakers Drop Suits Over Clean-Air Regulation” (NYT)

“Why the Great Smog of London Was Anything but Great” (NYT)

 

8/7/03

“Gas for Peru v green imperialism” (Economist)

 

8/3/03

“Warming Trends” (NYT)

 

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