Energetics Cliff Notes - Tuesday Edition

• Kate Sheppard summarizes the last few weeks and the Administration's sluggish response to the oil spill.
• Senator Lindsay Graham criticizes the climate bill he had a heavy hand in creating.
• A recent poll shows deteriorating public support for offshore oil drilling.
• According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Western states could get 35% of their power from solar and wind technology within seven years.
• Michael Giberson discusses the smart grid and the advance of civilization.
• Current Cost, the largest global supplier of realtime power meters, is now compatible with Google PowerMeter.
• Jonathan Hiskes asks: In wake of Gulf spill, should this be the summer of energy reform?
• California Gubernatorial Candidate and current Attorney General Jerry Brown is demanding that the federal government not dismantle PACE, a financing program to reduce electricity use.
• Mother Jones calculates how many offshore wind turbines we could buy for the cost of one Deepwater Rig.
• Paul Krugman talks about regulation and comments lightly on bureaucratic responses to environmental disasters.