Donating an unwanted car to charity is a fantastic way to benefit the environment. In addition to the environmental benefits of charitable car donation, you are simultaneously helping local charities and receiving a tax write off. The way it works …
From Guest Blogger Jason Giroux: Environmental Benefits of Recycling Cars Read More »
As one would expect, the banter here at the American Chemical Society conference is largely academic; in the convention center from which I’m writing this post there are more super-smart and extremely specialized people per square foot than I’ve encountered in a …
Discussing the EPA at the American Chemical Society Conference Read More »
Whenever I speak on renewable energy, I’m careful to leave my audience with a sense of the “tough realities.” We all want simple answers to our questions, but in the case of clean energy, none exist. There are dozens of …
Infographic: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy Read More »
I could hear a collective moan from progressives when they saw that President Obama is proposing a 13 percent cut in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) budget to $8.97 billion. The immediate conclusion they might have drawn is that …
Obama’s 2012 Budget Contains Scary Energy Components Read More »
I go on occasional rants about the lunacy of the EPA’s rating electric cars (pure EVs that use no gas, e.g., the Nissan LEAF) on their gas mileage. Apparently, John Voelcker of GreenCarReports.com agrees: Idiocy…. So it’s come down to …
EPA Needs Help in Creating Meaningful Ratings for Electric Vehicles Read More »
In his blog, my friend Paul Scott has written a marvelous post on calculating the pollution caused by charging electric vehicles with energy from fossil-fuels. He makes several astute comments and suggestions regarding how the EPA should, in fact, make …
The EPA Asks: How Much Pollution Do Electric Vehicles Create? Read More »
