Tag: Clean Energy - Page 12
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Big Oil & Coal Spent $500 Million to Kill Climate Bill
Needless to say, it's been a depressing year for environmentally conscious folk -- with the BP spill, the hottest global temps on record, and the death of any hopes for climate legislation in the US, it's been bleak,
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Why Can't Clean Energy Be More Like Cell Phones? (Video)
Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana
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The Great Chinese Clean Energy Export Scandal
The biggest story to break in the clean energy world in the last few days is certainly the allegation that China is breaking World Trade Organization rules by unfairly subsidizing its exports of
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Could We Still Get a National Renewable Energy Standard This Year?
What just a year ago seemed to be a weak alternative or a mere support beam to good carbon-reducing energy policy is now a pie-in-the-sky longshot. Pricing carbon emissions was the bedrock of the climate
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If Obama Had Chosen Energy Over Health Care ...
It's an interesting question for followers of both politics and climate issues: How would things have turned out if Obama had thrown his weight behind clean energy legislation instead of health care reform? Would we
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What Are the Top States for Energy Efficiency? Did Yours Make the Cut?
The Center for American Progress has ranked the Top 10 states for policies that promote energy efficiency. The report cautions, however, that even those states on the list haven't fully tapped into the power of using less power.
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"Clean Coal" Positioned To Be The High End Energy Product No One Can Afford
Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves. That coal may be sulfurous and wet and salty; but ,Southern Illinois also has good
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Facebook Petition to Save Lake Skadar Made a Dam Difference
TreeHugger joined our friends at Wild Wonders of Europe in putting out the call for signatures on a FaceBook petition to Save Lake Skadar. Thanks to all of you who signed, the strategy is bearing fruits. WWF has announced that the
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Tell the Senate to Stop Stalling on Clean Energy
It should be unthinkable that in the wake of the worst oil disaster in history, the Senate has not yet passed a bill that would hold BP accountable for the damage they have wreaked on Gulf communities and businesses.
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What Happened to Clean Energy Reform? (Video)
Well, the dust is still settling from the massive failure in the Senate to produce a meaningful energy bill -- fingers are being pointed, everyone's angry, and there's a new pathetic bill being touted as an 'energy package' that's
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Introducing the Senate's Pathetic New "Energy" Bill
Okay, so I've been up in arms about the official demise of the climate bill in the Senate. I took pains to document who was responsible for killing it. But I neglected to mention amidst all the ranting that the Senate is still working on something.
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The 7 Things That Killed the Climate Bill
The news that reverberated around the web yesterday was hardly unexpected -- the climate bill, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally announced was officially dead, was on its way out for a long time. But that doesn't make
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In Defense of the Offshore Drilling Moratorium
While the oil industry is banging the drum that an offshore drilling moratorium will
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Could Obama Help Sell Energy Reform Even If He Wanted To?
Those who've long waited for climate and clean energy legislation to make its way out of the Senate are nervously watching the days tick away before the November elections -- wherein the prospect of lost Democratic seats
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China May Funnel $738 Billion Into Clean Energy Projects
China may be having some trouble coming to grips with its status as a nation that no longer truly qualifies as 'developing' -- its per capita emissions are higher than France's now -- but it looks like it may not have much trouble realizing that
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Spain Emerges as Solar Energy Leader
Image credit: GOOD GOOD observes Spain's emergence as the world's new solar energy leader. They have built a new solar energy plant and already have plans for solar and wind energy development through 2013. This is great news since developing
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Stimulus Bill Created Nearly 1 Million Green Jobs: CEA Report
It's kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago -- a recent poll found that something like only 13% of Americans felt it helped them. Of course, much of the
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Meet the New 4-Part Climate Bill
It looks like Senate Democrats are indeed going to make one last push for energy reform before the November election circus takes the main stage. The legislation, which hasn't been entirely hammered out yet, will have four main
