Diehard high school baseball fan and possible 2012 presidential candidate Chris Christie announced yesterday that he is scaling back New Jersey's goals for renewable energy from powering 30% of the state's electricity by 2021 down to 22.5 percent, saying "we wanted to put forward a document that was responsible and achievable." It's like when you're on a diet, and your goal is to lose 40 pounds—OK OK bad analogy. It's like when you have this private helicopter that you know you shouldn't use but it's just so damn fast and cool looking, you can't help it! more ›

Mayor Bloomberg took another step in introducing green ideas for New York City by announcing the city would start looking at off-shore windfarms. Or maybe those wind turbines could be a lot closer. From his speech at the Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas:

Perhaps companies will want to put windfarms atop our bridges and skyscrapers, or use the enormous potential of powerful off-shore winds miles out in the Atlantic Ocean, where turbines could generate roughly twice the energy that land-based windfarms can. Windfarms located far off our shores, some evidence shows, could meet 10 percent of our city's electricity needs within a decade.