The Cellulosic Ethanol Debacle

(Wall Street Journal) Congress mandated purchase of 250 million gallons in 2011. Actual production: 6.6 million...12/13

Inside Energy Extra

12/12 A daily report on U.S. energy policy
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- Democrats defend embattled NRC chief
- Senator plans safety valve for EPA rule
- White House aims to streamline NEPA
- Sandia, Vt. campus to study grid

Rhapsody for Hungarian science

(NPR) With a shake-up of its national academy and a major boost in research funding next year, Hungary hopes to regain its long-lost status as a scientific power­house in central Europe...12/12

Physicists Anxiously Await New Data on ‘God Particle’

(NY Times) High noon is approaching for the biggest manhunt in the history of physics. At 8 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday morning, scientists from CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, are scheduled to give a progress report on the search for the Higgs boson — infamously known as the “God particle” — whose discovery would vindicate the modern theory of how elementary particles get mass...12/11

Researcher Sees Biological Regime Change Under Way in Alaska

(Scientific American) Is climate change pushing Alaska toward another major abrupt shift, similar to the transition from grassy steppe to peaty tundra that took place thousands of years ago?...12/10

Canada first nation to pull out of Kyoto protocol

(Reuters) Canada on Monday became the first country to announce it would withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, dealing a symbolic blow to the already troubled global treaty...12/13