Category: Green Building LEED News
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Breakthrough Agreement Confines Natural Gas to True Bridge Fuel
In this landmark agreement in Massachusetts, the state and natural gas plant agreed to binding conditions, assuring there’s an end to the ‘bridge.’
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Environmentalists Caught In NSA Spy Web
Federal agencies and big corporations are actively spying on environmental organizations, and in Sochi, they’re sending them to jail.
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ALEC Attacks Even Before EPA Acts
No need to wait to see what EPA’s power plant regs are, ALEC legislation already introduced in 12 states.
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The California Drought: Who Gets Water and Who’s Hung Out to Dry?
The historic drought in California has dredged up old feuds over who can lay claim to water in a thirsty state. As the powerful lobby for the agricultural industry—which currently consumes 80 percent of California’s water supply—cries for more water to be pumped to their farms in the arid regions of the Central Valley, just…
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ALEC-Affiliated Legislators Launch Premature Attacks on Carbon Pollution Limits
By Aliya Haq For many of us, this winter makes June feel far away, but you’d think summer is right around the corner judging by the frenzied activity of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is scheduled to propose limits on carbon pollution from power plants this coming June, but ALEC and other…