What's New
Nickel, copper mine renews debate over Mich.'s Upper Peninsula
Land Letter
Less than a month after its final authorization by state regulators, a sulfide mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula faces a promised legal challenge from environmental groups and a proposed ballot initiative that could make its operation illegal.   Read More...

Senate EPW panel returns to global warming debate with public health hearing
E&E News Daily
On Thursday, EPW Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will return to the global warming debate with a hearing into the public health warnings from many scientists that climate change is likely to increase malnutrition, encourage the spread of disease-carrying insects and worsen floods, droughts and storms.   Read More...

U.S. needs to study geoengineering to help manage it, scientists assert
ClimateWire
As interest in geoengineering grows, it may be time for the federal government to start its own research program, experts told a House panel yesterday.   Read More...

NOAA reorganizes with eye toward assessing warming effects
Greenwire
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched a new climate service, a reorganization effort aimed at improving long-range assessments of climate change, sea-level rise and severe weather.   Read More...

Scant Arctic ice could mean summer "double whammy"
Reuters
Scant ice over the Arctic Sea this winter could mean a "double whammy" of powerful ice-melt next summer, a top U.S. climate scientist said on Thursday.   Read More...

Senators seek sulfur dioxide pollution cuts
Reuters
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at slashing emissions of sulfur dioxide, mercury and nitrogen oxide from smokestacks including coal-fired power plants.   Read More...

Editorial: Obama's message
Oil & Gas Journal
President Barack Obama to the U.S. oil and gas industry: Get out of town. That's the message in the president's budget proposal for fiscal 2011.   Read More...

Head of UN climate change panel clocks up half a million miles of air travel
telegraph.co.uk
The embattled head of the UN's climate change panel clocked up more than half a million miles of air travel in a year and a half as he travelled the world warning of the global warming threat.   Read More...

New errors in IPCC climate change report
telegraph.co.uk
The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders.   Read More...

Obama Admin says it will spend all revenue raised from new carbon taxes
FOX News
President Obama and Budget Director Peter Orszag have thrown transparency out the window and created a black box for taxes and spending on climate change  hidden inside the administration's 2011 budget.   Read More...

Issue of burying power lines resurface as electricity trickles back on in southwest Oklahoma
Los Angeles Times
With each major ice storm in Oklahoma, the question seems to resurface: Why not bury the power lines?   Read More...

Coal industry concerned about proposal for higher taxes
ABC News/AP
Coal companies are objecting to an Obama administration proposal that could raise their state taxes to cover the cost of regulating surface mining.   Read More...

Nuclear giant Areva buys solar company Ausra
Reuters
The world's largest nuclear plant builder, Areva SA, is entering the solar power industry, with the company announcing its acquisition of U.S.-based solar thermal player Ausra.   Read More...

In clean energy, U.S. needs more steel in ground
CNET
More than scientific breakthroughs, the U.S. needs to deploy existing green technologies faster to keep pace with China and other nations, people in the renewable energy industry said this week.   Read More...

Feds take deliberate approach with oil shale leasing
ABC News/AP
Concerns and conflict over the first round of federal oil shale leases in the Rockies have made the government more deliberate in the second round, a federal official said Friday.   Read More...

U.S. has longest wait on mining projects
Wall Street Journal
With an average wait time of seven years, companies look elsewhere for needed metals and minerals.   Read More...

Rep. Lamborn: Energy key to economic recovery
Roll Call
Rep. Lamborn (R-CO) on the important role low-cost energy plays in creating jobs, growing the economy and freeing the nation from our overdependence on foreign sources of energy.   Read More...

Vulcan bags $108M to make geothermal cost competitive with coal, gas
VentureBeat
Vulcan Power, a major developer of geothermal energy sources in the American west, has just landed $108 million in equity from an affiliate of Denham Capital.   Read More...

  Business Summit of West
Videos Now Available Online!
The Western Business Roundtable would like to thank the 
Speakers and Sponsors of the 2010 Business Summit of the West! 
 
Video's of select sessions from the Summit are now available, including addresses by Gov. Brewer (R-AZ), Gov. Schweitzer (D-MT), Rep. Shadegg (R-AZ), Rep. Hastings (R-WA), town hall meetings, sportsmen-industry panels, and other panels featuring clean technology, mining and infrastructure experts from across the nation.
 

  Reality Check Webinars
Clearing the Air or Kicking up Dust?
How EPA's Proposed Dust Emissions Standard Could Affect Businesses in the West

The recent installment in our "Reality Check" briefing series featured two expert speakers who addressed what the regulation of dust as coarse particulate matter under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) of the Clean Air Act will REALLY MEAN to businesses in the West.  

Go here
to access the recording of this program, as well as recordings of all of our "Reality Check" webinars.
 

  Green Tech Webinars

Advanced Water Process TechnologiesWebinar
Our next Green Tech webinar will look at advancements being made in water process and remediation technologies. More information will be posted here shortly, so please check back!

To see a recording of our recent webinar on carbon sequestration technologies, click here.


  MythBusters
Electric cars not so eco-friendly: Green groups
The Hindu
A latest report has claimed that an increase in electric cars is likely to lead to more electricity production from coal, gas and nuclear plants, without necessarily reducing oil demand for conventional cars   Read More...

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  Climate News
Senate EPW panel returns to global warming debate with public health hearing
E&E News Daily
On Thursday, EPW Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will return to the global warming debate with a hearing into the public health warnings from many scientists that climate change is likely to increase malnutrition, encourage the spread of disease-carrying insects and worsen floods, droughts and storms.   Read More...

More Climate News ...


    Roundtable in the News
Brewer wants more nuclear power in state
Arizona Republic
Calling nuclear power "the cornerstone of our clean-energy future," Gov. Jan Brewer threw her political weight behind the construction of additional nuclear plants in Arizona.
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  Outrage of the Week
U.S. has longest wait on mining projects
Wall Street Journal
With an average wait time of seven years, companies look elsewhere for needed metals and minerals.   Read More...

More Outrages ...


  Kudo of the Week
Rep. Lamborn: Energy key to economic recovery
Roll Call
Rep. Lamborn (R-CO) on the important role low-cost energy plays in creating jobs, growing the economy and freeing the nation from our overdependence on foreign sources of energy.   Read More...

More Kudos ...


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