Substitute

A Senate subcommittee Thursday narrowly approved with little change a manger’s substitute to the Lieberman-Warner legislation that seeks to achieve substantial, long-term cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a measure that critics contend will be costly and disruptive to energy markets.

A proposal to substitute nuclear power for gas-fired generation has been laughed out of the northern Alberta oil sands — literally.

A proposal to substitute nuclear power for gas-fired generation has been laughed out of the northern Alberta oil sands — literally.

(This is a correction and substitute for a June 19 article.)

A proprietary storage technology developed by a Houston-basedfirm could “obviate” the need in the short term for some of thepipeline capacity additions that have been proposed to meet thepower generation-fueled growth in gas demand anticipated for theNortheast market, says a company official.

A new bi-partisan bill was introduced Tuesday to address climatechange issues using “American ingenuity in the marketplace todevelop new technology that can be exported and deployed around theworld.” Chief sponsor, Chairman Frank H. Murkowski of the SenateEnergy Committee, said the Energy and Climate Policy Act of 1999would chart a different course than the Kyoto Protocol. “Our billrepresents a long-term, technology-based, alternative to Kyoto.Even if the U.S. succeeded in limiting its own emissions, “we areunlikely to compel China to submit to mandated emissions limits.But they want to buy our technology, so let’s play our stronghand.”