Some “bipartisanship” on climate change — WSJ POWER POINTS: Deregulation Battleground Moves To Pennsylvania – WSJ.com Green VC Total: Second Best Year Ever — Greentech What constitutes a startup mistake? « HighContrast Who to invite to your greentech dinner party? Greentech A123Systems Was Officially the Largest IPO of 2009 — Greentech If regulators don’t like prices too high or too low… then what is the point of a market? NYT “I can’t tell you the method or the means or amount [to price carbon]” Sen Kerry Germany Gets 16% of Power From Renewables, Handelsblatt Says – Bloomberg.com NYC urges ban on shale gas drilling in watershed | Reuters The green suits — WSJ E.U. Blames Others for ‘Great Failure’ on Climate — NYT After Summit, ‘Cleantech’ Firms Reset Strategy — WSJ Fallout from Copenhagen — Yale Environment 360 Top 10 Trends for the Smart Grid in 2010 — Earth2Tech Carbon Prices Tumble After ‘Modest’ Climate Deal — Bloomberg Transition from oil to other fuels… natural gas may trump renewables — Houston Chronicle Hydraulic fracturing won’t get an easy pass… efforts underway to repeal EPA exemptions Exxon Learns From 2005 Takeover Blunders by ConocoPhillips — NYT Does Obama Need 67 Votes For A Climate Treaty? Not Necessarily. | The New Republic China replaces U.S. as the center for IPOs — USATODAY Its all about the data… Smart Grid: A Must for Energy Efficiency – BusinessWeek Natural-Gas Market Heats Up – WSJ.com Ulterior motives for setting emissions base year… US vs. Europe — WSJ “Still being elaborated…” Copenhagen progress challenging — NYT Winter is coming and natural gas responds — Bloomberg Sen Murkowski takes on EPA’s CO2 endangerment findings You’ll need plenty of water to get all that “new” oil & gas What does Valero know about jatropha-based biodiesel that BP didn’t already learn? China holding out hand for “developed” world funds to meet emission cutting goals… US says not so fast Energy efficiency makes a smart (commercial real estate) investment Smart Grid implementation issues in CA — NYT EPA takes responsibility for carbon… Congress pleased? WSJ Senators revise climate bill to court GOP support Changing power settlement process in ERCOT Texas’ electricity market ranked first in North America Car makers prep standard for smart grid Bankrupt ethanol plant sells for $15M – Portland Business Journal: EPA to move ethanol fuel blend requirements from 10 to 15% — NYT Standby for higher electricity costs… Progress Energy gives up on coal plants — NewsObserver Sen Murkowski wants to see more options to (effectively) reduce emissions Is China’s energy demand about to slow in order to meet government carbon targets? — WSJ Europe Bypassed on Climate Summit — NYT Reliant exits Illinois retail electricity market The case for investing in ‘smart grids’ — FT Google moves to direct investments in renewable energy Correction to yesterday’s post… EPA postpones ethanol blend decision — NYT Climate email fracas shows no sign of ending — NYT Harvard Business School Green Business Alumni Assoc Webinar “The Case for Green Transportation… from electric vehicles to batteries and logistics” 18 Dec 2009 Noon EST Mr. (Sen) Inhofe goes to Copenhagen…