Tom Vilsack
EnergyBoom’s E•B Biofuel subindex was up 1.23 percent last week, beating the broad market U.S. indices and EnergyBoom’s other four clean sector indices. Only the DAX index of 30 German bluechips trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange -- with a weekly increase of 2.12 percent -- performed better than E•B Biofuel.
The White House announced that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on December 9th to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
While solar power comes from sunlight and wind power comes from wind, biomass is a fascinating alternative energy because it can come from so many different sources – and the federal government is looking into many of them.
A report by the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration (EIA), says household energy costs would increase by $83 a year under the American Clean Energy and Security Bill.
Transportation, biomass, carbon offsets -- these were just some of the policy overhauls discussed this morning at a Senate Environment and Public Works committee hearing on energy and climate policy.
In opening statements before the Environment and Public Works committee, top Obama administration officials urged the Senate to take fast and effective action to accelerate the nation's expansion of clean energy generation, both to create jobs and to and cut the human-propelled greenhouse gas pollution that is causing
Fresh from their July 4th break, the senators of the Environment and Public Works committee made animated opening statements at today's hearing, the first of four called by committee chair Sen.
