According to the Washington Examiner yesterday, President Obama's campaign team is going "on the offensive to promote [the President's] support for clean coal."

I share that fear with this resident. It is a fear that each of these spills is happening and being forgotten -- labelled as an isolated incident and not the epidemic it has become. In this latest spill that dumped between 160,000 and half a million litres of oil into Red Deer River, there is a little victim that is unforgettable.

A meeting of international climate treaty negotiators in Tianjin, China this week is livening up with the United States threatening to pursue an alternate process to the one set up by the United Nations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Ch

A failed US climate bill and a stalled international treaty does not mean that nobody is doing anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the years while world leaders and bureaucrats have fiddled, cities around the world have been the champions when it comes to adopting tough measures to reduce their carbon footprints.

Dr. Steven Chu, the US Secretary for Energy announced today that the $93 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will be invested in the development of wind energy projects.

Chu stated that, “Wind energy will be one of the most important contributors to meeting President Obama's target of generating 10 percent of our electricity from renewable sources by 2012."

Indeed this move will not only assist in the US administration's laudable goal of 10% renewables by 2012, but it will also stimulate new green jobs in the renewable energy sector. While industries tied to traditional energy, like the auto industry continue to take a pummeling, it will be investments such as this that will hopefully perk the ears of private investors.

Here's 10 great renewable energy stories hot right now in the blogosphere. Do you blog on renewable energy? Drop me a line and tell me about it, or leave a link in the comment section.

On the low-end, BP and government officials are now saying there is about 25,000 barrels of oil pumping into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But, as we know, the estimates of have continued to creep upward since this disaster began unfolding close to two months.