General Motors officially announces the debut of the Chevy Volt today.

The Boston Globe reports that the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the formidable nonprofit that led the crusade against Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm, is in financial difficulty.
According to the Globe:
Raising an average of $3.6 million a year in 2003, 2004, and 2005, the organization aired television ads, paid a public relations firm, and staged a $1.5 million lobbying drive to try to persuade Congress to kill the controversial plan, which has become central to a national debate over the future of clean energy.
But last year, after losing …

Al Gore admitted earlier this month that the tax credit for ethanol was mistake. Everyone on the right jumped on his statement as further evidence of Mr. Gore’s hypocrisy.
Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle in an article at Real Clear Politics at Real Clear Politics reminds us that it was Mr. Gore who as Vice President in 1994 broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate by voting in favor of the ethanol tax credit. This credit according to Saunders added $5 billion to the deficit last year.

Mercedes Benz is adding a small luxury diesel to its S-Class car line according to a report in Bloomberg. Mercedes has announced that this luxury diesel will get 41 mpg — that’s better mileage than the S-Class hybrid which is listed as getting 19 city and 25 highway .
Instead of the usual V-8, this new entry into the S-Class will be a be a 4-cylinder diesel. By this move, Mercedes is somewhat out on a limb.  It it is the first of the luxury-car maker to put a downsized …

If you’re not watching the Tour de France, you’re missing an exciting duel between Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck, you’re missing the beautiful French countryside and incredible mountain climbs, and you’re missing this new commercial from Nissan and Lance Armstrong.  Although Armstrong is not in the competition for the yellow jersey this year (his final year), the most famous U.S. cyclist makes an effective spokesman for the new Leaf.

In Mr. Obama’s weekly radio address at the beginning of July (that was Day 75 of the BP oil well disaster), he touted the country’s transition to a “clean energy economy” and announced the Department of Energy’s “award of nearly $2 billion in conditional commitments to two solar companies.”
One government beneficiary is Abengoa Solar, a Spanish engineering company, that has agreed to build a solar power plant in Arizona. The other beneficiary is Abound Solar, a Colorado company, which will use $400 million in loan guarantees to expand solar-panel …

Every time some new information comes out about clean energy technologies, it can be very exciting - seeing lower costs for solar panels - or depressing- realizing that clean coal is probably a pipe dream.  Popular Mechanics takes a look at clean energy technologies and sets about “Debunking the Top 10 Energy Myths” here.

Byron York at the Washington Examiner reports that a staffer working for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R. Iowa) found this little tidbit in a Bureau of Labor Statistics notice dated March 16 - there is “no widely accepted standard definition of ‘green jobs.’” The staffer then looked back at some of the Labor Dept. announcements:
“U.S. Department of Labor Announces $100 Million in Green Jobs Training through Recovery Act
U.S. Department of Labor Announces $150 Million in “Pathways Out of Poverty” Training Grants for Green Jobs
U.S. Department of Labor Announces Nearly $190 Million …

While we all want to rush to aid the birds soaking in BP oil, cleaning them, however, may not be the best answer. A German animal biologist says that the most humane course of action is to euthanize the birds.

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