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Carly Fiorina fumbles on Prop 23 issue during California Senate debate
by Joseph Romm.
Poor Carly Fiorina. To make conservative ideologues happy, she has
to abandon science and her previous positions on the key issues of
global warming and clean energy.
BP spill costs hit $8 billion as crews unearth clues
California bags the plastic bag ban but makes solar leap
by Todd Woody.
The California Legislature started out the week in the green by passing the nation’s first energy storage bill. But legislators quickly ran into the red Wednesday when they failed to approve legislation to impose a statewide ban on plastic bags, or to codify Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) executive order that utilities obtain a third of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
Friday music blogging: Arcade Fire
by Jonathan Hiskes.
You can bet an artist is grappling with questions of place and home and belonging when she belts out a line like, “Sometimes I wonder if the world’s so small / that we can never get away from the sprawl ... Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there’s no end in sight.”
Mariner Energy cited for two violations in past six months, totaling $55,000
by Joseph Romm.
I know that you are shocked, shocked to learn the owner of the
offshore oil and gas platform that exploded yesterday in the Gulf of
Mexico had two violations just this year from the Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management’s Outer Continental Shelf Civil and Criminal Penalties Program.
This not terribly surprising story is brought to you by Think Progress:
The environmentalist’s paradox: we do better while the earth does worse
by David Roberts.
Brad Plumer has a great post on why humanity seems to be doing relatively well even though the environment is falling apart. The same subject’s been on my mind since I read a piece by Foreign Policy editor Charles Kenny a few days ago called “Best. Decade. Ever.”
Latest Gulf oil well explosion was no disaster, but what does it say about offshore drilling?
by Randy Rieland.
If we hadn’t spent the summer watching crude gush into the Gulf, no one outside the industry would have noticed or cared much about Thursday’s explosion on a Mariner Energy oil platform. No serious injuries, no spreading slick.
But everyone did notice, and it reminded us that no matter how much BP and the rest of Big Oil say they’ve learned from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, offshore drilling remains a high-risk business, even in shallow water.
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