Tesoro (TSO) Fights California Ethanol Mandate Written By: Miranda Marquit 2008-10-06 11:17:12 Back in August, California's Air Resources Board passed a mandate requiring that Photo: arbyreed, Creative Commons, Flickr
ethanol blend in gasoline be upped to 10 percent (from 5.7 percent). Oil refineries in California have until 2009 to carry out the changes that would bring companies in compliance with the mandate. Tesoro (TSO), however, is fighting back.
The Culture of Pop!Tech Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-10-26 12:19:10 Pop!Tech was a little like the Sundance Film Festival and a little like three days of business school.
The Powerlessness of Green Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2007-06-14 17:43:30 When we see a documentary that tells us how limited our time is before the world implodes, our first thought is, “Wow,” and the second is, “Let’s see who called my cell phone while I was at that documentary.”
The reason for this is that we, as a society, do not have the resolve to stop a problem 50 or 25 or even 10 years before it affects us. This is not because we’re selfish brutes only interested in our own best interest, though of course we are, but rather because we are shortsighted. We put things off until we absolutely have to deal with them, and then we put things off some more.
The Roe vs. Wade of Alternative Energy Written By: Eben Esterhuizen 2007-04-04 23:40:31 The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emmisions. The ruling means the EPA must regulate automobile CO2 emissions unless that agency can show the science of global warming is too uncertain to justify action. Although few expect the ruling to lead to immediate regulatory action, the decision has provided strong momentum to alternative energy stocks since Tuesday.
