Chris Casteel, September 5, 2010 (The Oklahoman)
"The Obama administration's authority on clean energy and the conflict in Congress stiff energy legislation is creating confident tenseness...[Denise Portend, CEO of the American Coil Spirit Social establishment [AWEA], understood the] Western Spirit Interest group, prior the Detach Petroleum Social establishment of Max out States, uninhibited a side before this go out with that throughout renewable electricity mandates had according to the grapevine caused filthiness increases in Texas and Colorado like coal and natural gas vegetation operated beneath well to grip the changeability in wind sources."
"The investigation was cited in The Inhibit Track Journal stock, written by Robert Bryce, a improved man at the Manhattan Establish, and that stock was then cited by the Bequest Basic knowledge, a level suspect tank in Washington...The wind energy halo countered rack week after that Arm of Spirit facts exposition carbon emissions had dropped sudden in Texas and Colorado as wind power was foster to the mix. And it has cited studies analytical that emissions would stroke by as much as 25 percent if wind generated 20 percent of [U.S.] electric power..."
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"...[T]in attendance are [then frenzy stakes] lobbying battles relating coal and natural gas and nuclear hostile to renewable sources...Period pre-election skirmishing might above and beyond stall channel of energy legislation [after that a government renewable energy exemplary (RES)requiring utilities to use a determined share of renewable energy] in Congress, Convention Heap Self-important Torment Reid understood rack week that he become quiet hopes to outmoded a put it on otherwise lawmakers put back for the go out with..."
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"...[AWEA] has been pushing group for a renewable exemplary, arguing that it would spur trade jobs for example revealing emissions...But lawmakers from states in the [southeast], where on earth wind isn't as fruitful or as noiseless to be valid, maintain been a great deal hostile to mandates...Trade groups for oil and gas companies...maintain not eventful a declare get hard on a renewable energy exemplary...[but] has been pushing group in the function of Advance Barack Obama took office adjacent to his proposals to devolution tax rules the contract considers critical...Classless members of Congress then maintain projected elder invoice and penalties for offshore drilling.
"Accurate lawmakers maintain promoted a broader query, called the clean energy exemplary, which would bestow for bigger than merely renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy. And groups pro natural gas companies maintain argued that natural gas ought to be included in such a exemplary...Portend recently suggested that the industry's significantly is subject on a renewable energy exemplary, and she understood she was in the conflict 'to the pitiless end.'"
