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A weekly newsletter from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
 

Sea Level Rise and Property Rights
Thursday, September 9, 3 - 4:30 p.m. EST
Summary: Innovative land use planning policies for adapting to sea level rise
Session Overview
Coordinators: Kelly Samek (Florida FWC), Karen Bareford (Florida DEP) & Melissa Trosclair Daigle (Louisiana Sea Grant Law & Policy)
Register for the Sea Level Rise and Property Rights session.
 

Monday Morning Presidents

While President Barack Obama has done much to foster alternative energy, there are still a lot of environmentalists--including many here at the Sierra Club--who can't get over the feeling that the BP oil-spill disaster was a missed opportunity. Wasn't it his own chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who famously said "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste?" Yet what did we get for this one? A temporary ban on deepwater drilling, and a vague call for cleaner energy:

An Oil Rig Burns, Blanketing the Gulf With Angst
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
 

NEW ORLEANS — An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico caught fire on Thursday morning, forcing its 13 crew members overboard and sending waves of anxiety along a coast that has just begun to recover from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.