Category: Green Building LEED News
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First Potential Offshore Wind Farm in U.S. Survives Koch-backed Lawsuit, But Faces Another
It’s been an active week in court for what could eventually be the nation’s first offshore wind farm. First, the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit upheld the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) approval of a wind farm to be constructed off the shores of Cape Cod. The FAA in 2012 approved the $2.6 billion Cape Wind farm,…
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Court Denies Offshore Oil Drilling Lease Sale in Arctic
Yesterday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the Department of the Interior violated the law when it opened almost 30 million acres of the outer continental shelf in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska to oil and gas drilling. [caption id="attachment_318994" align="alignnone" width="500"] Icebergs in the high Arctic. Photo credit: Wikimedia[/caption] The court…
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Cobalt Power, Trina Solar Announce First Install of Trinasmart
Trina Solar, the Smart Module market leader, today announced that Cobalt Power, a leading PV system installer, successfully commissioned the first commercial-scale installation of Trinasmart in North America. The 113-kW system located in the San Francisco Bay Area is the first North […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Three Ways New York Made Environmental History in 2013
By Rory Christian As New York dives into a new year and New York City gets a new administration, I hope you’ll join me in taking a “New York minute” to reflect on the remarkable environmental progress the city made in the last 12 months. Other cities, take note: if these environmental gains can make it…
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Great News! Court Rules Against Arctic Oil Drilling
An appeals court bashed Interior’s environmental analysis that’s the basis for allowing oil drilling.