clean coal

The government has denied Desert Rock Energy Company’s bid for a federal stimulus grant, the Farmington Daily Times reported today. The company had hoped to use the money to include carbon capture sequestration technology into the project design of a coal-fired power plant near Farmington. Opponents of the project say the decision by the Department of Energy [...]

Much of the news coming out of Washington D.C. today is, unsurprisingly, about health care reform, after the House version of health care reform was unveiled this morning. Two of the three Representatives from New Mexico issued press releases talking about health care reform.

John McCain and Barack Obama agree that global warming is man-made, and both want to find a way to reverse its course. That urge dovetails nicely with fixing the economy, and long-term job losses. One solution to job loss that both point to is the creation of new jobs from a large investment in alternative and renewable energy production here at home.