Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam treads carefully with new energy policy
“We would always like to see more aggressive efforts to move the needle faster. But it was a pleasant change to have a statewide leader starting that conversation.”
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Some Charlie Crist campaign money passed through PAC at Florida frat house
“It's very sad to see how far (Crist) has fallen away from his fire-in-the-belly stance he's had to defend consumers. To me, it's just a very overwhelming moment of disappointment.”
North Carolina Gets Great Clean Air News
“Under the terms of the settlement, Duke will retire old coal plants that have double the electric generating capacity of Cliffside, and will make those retirements legally binding.”
Reviving units an option, TVA says
“It makes no sense to make these sites on the Tennessee River where we get our drinking water the nuclear dumps of our region”
Energy group wants court to throw out nuclear-cost law
“State-sanctioned monopolies are using this nuclear-tax scam as an entitlement to extract money from consumers. This is a really bad deal for the consumers of Florida.”
FPL undergoing a natural gas revolution
Florida Power & Light is investing $9 billion in capital expenditures, including $3 billion for new natural gas-fired plants in Riviera Beach and Cape Canaveral, as part of a broader shift toward natural gas generation. The…
Energy advocates: State nuclear cost recovery bill is unconstitutional
“State-sanctioned monopolies are using this nuclear-tax scam as an entitlement to extract money from consumers. This a really bad deal for the consumers of Florida.”
Senators reject efforts to repeal so-called 'nuclear tax'
“We need to get rid of this unfair practice which privatizes the profits and socializes the risk. You've taken the risk off of the utilities -- these Fortune 500 companies -- and you're putting it onto ratepayers who can ill-afford it at this time.”
Legislators taking a new tack on energy
“When it looked like they were getting darn close to getting cap-and-trade at the federal level, the fossil fuel industry spent a lot of money on a misinformation campaign”
Critics fear $7 billion SRS boondoggle
“some fairly serious concerns with the mixed oxide fuel program”
Taxpayers' Leaf: Four Recharging Stops Needed to Go 180 Miles
“It's good knowing we didn't use a drop of oil getting down here”
Is Wind Power the Most Under-Exploited Energy Opportunity in the Southern US?
“If they weren't genuinely interested, they would just put out a white paper saying it's too expensive, it's not viable”
Nuclear power NRC approves first new nuke reactors since 1978
“In a very literal sense, the rubble has not cooled in Japan, and the NRC has granted a license for a new, unproven reactor design here in the United States”
Progress Energy customers on hook for $1.1B for nuclear plant that may never be built
“The experience in this case is that it is neither cheap or reliable. It's time for the Legislature to reconsider what it did in 2006.”
A retrograde energy policy
An op-ed criticizing the Bush administration's energy policy as favoring fossil fuel extraction and power plant construction over conservation and efficiency. The piece cites TVA's energy efficiency programs and references SACE's involvement in clean air initiatives…