Stop-start restart: General Motors’ mild hybrids set to return in 2011:

By DAVID BARKHOLZ, AUTOMOTIVE NEWS GM powertrain exec Larry Nitz says the automaker’s previous attempt at mild hybrids “was a forced execution.” JOE WILSSENS General Motors Co. plans to bring back mild hybrids next year, said Larry Nitz, GM executive director of hybrid and electric powertrain engineering.GM discontinued mild hybrids after 2009 when the closing of Saturn left the carmaker with the technology on just one vehicle, the Chevrolet Malibu sedan, Nitz said.

Ford upgrades diesels for Super Duty pickups:

The 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty debuted in April. Ford Ford Motor Co. is enlisting its dealers as it fires back in a horsepower battle between diesel-powered heavy-duty pickups.Ford will begin production this week of the most powerful diesel engine ever installed in a heavy-duty pickup, Barb Samardzich, vice president of powertrain engineering, said today in a statement released here at the CAR Management Briefing Seminars.Dealers will make sure pickup buyers who purchased Ford’s brawniest truck over the last four months get the power boost, too

Me and My i-MiEV: Mark’s daily blog:

AutoWeek is test driving the i-MiEV this summer.

Resolved: Tar sands are an expensive and risky investment

Home › Contributors › Susan Casey-Lefkowitz › Resolved: Tar sands are an expensive and risky investment Susan Casey-Lefkowitz’s Blog Resolved: Tar sands are an expensive and risky investment Susan Casey-Lefkowitz Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Blog | About Posted May 12, 2010 in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming RESOLVED: Shareholders request that an independent committee of the Board prepare a report (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on the environmental damage that would result from the company’s expanding oil sands operations in the Canadian boreal forest.

Resolved: Tar sands are an expensive and risky investment

Home › Contributors › Susan Casey-Lefkowitz › Resolved: Tar sands are an expensive and risky investment Susan Casey-Lefkowitz’s Blog Resolved: Tar sands are an expensive and risky investment Susan Casey-Lefkowitz Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Blog | About Posted May 12, 2010 in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming RESOLVED: Shareholders request that an independent committee of the Board prepare a report (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on the environmental damage that would result from the company’s expanding oil sands operations in the Canadian boreal forest. The report should consider the implications of a policy of discontinuing these expansions and should be available to investors by November 2010.

Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Realistic Phasing

Home › Contributors › Barry Nelson › Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Realistic Phasing Barry Nelson’s Blog Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Realistic Phasing Barry Nelson Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Blog | About Posted April 29, 2010 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places Around the world, Americans are notoriously energetic and impatient.

Economides (x2) try their hand at CCS – and get it wrong

Home › Contributors › George Peridas › Economides (x2) try their hand at CCS – and get it wrong George Peridas’s Blog Economides (x2) try their hand at CCS – and get it wrong George Peridas Scientist, Climate Center – San Francisco & Washington DC Blog | About Posted April 29, 2010 in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming Michael Economides and Christine Ehlig-Economides recently published a paper, which according to them contained a revelation. The world’s scientists had got geological storage of carbon dioxide (GS) all wrong.

Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Science and Adaptive Management

Home › Contributors › Barry Nelson › Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Science and Adaptive Management Barry Nelson’s Blog Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Science and Adaptive Management Barry Nelson Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Blog | About Posted April 28, 2010 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places The CALFED Bay-Delta Program has taken a great deal of abuse in some quarters.

Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Science and Adaptive Management

Home › Contributors › Barry Nelson › Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Science and Adaptive Management Barry Nelson’s Blog Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Science and Adaptive Management Barry Nelson Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Blog | About Posted April 28, 2010 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places The CALFED Bay-Delta Program has taken a great deal of abuse in some quarters.

PFMC Votes for a Token Salmon Season – A Sober Debate in the Fishing Community

Home › Contributors › Barry Nelson › PFMC Votes for a Token Salmon Season – A Sober Debate in the Fishing Community Barry Nelson’s Blog PFMC Votes for a Token Salmon Season – A Sober Debate in the Fishing Community Barry Nelson Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Blog | About Posted April 16, 2010 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places Yesterday, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council voted to allow an extraordinarily limited fishing season in California this year.

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