Category: Green Building LEED News
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Why Are Facebook and Google Members of ALEC? Even Top Officials at These Companies Can’t Explain
Their memberships are so confounding, even representatives from Facebook and Google can’t explain them. The two web companies have become corporate leaders in renewable energy investments, powering data centers with wind and funding green projects around the globe. So why, then, are they members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—a group mostly consisting of fossil fuel…
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New USGBC report released at Greenbuild discusses LEED’s impacts and innovations
Category: Research Published on: 21 Nov 2013 Feature image: …
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Americans Voice Strong Mandate for Better School Buildings and Infrastructure in New Nationwide Independent Poll
Category: Announcement Published on: 21 Nov 2013 Feature image: 90 percent of Americans agree that more money needs to go toward fixing our nation’s school facilitiesread more
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Ohio’s Green Energy Success Stories Prove Renewable Energy Policies Work to Stimulate Economy, Reduce Pollution
The timing of Environment Ohio’s latest report is certainly no coincidence. The advocacy group issued Ohio’s Clean Energy Success Story, Year 4 a day after the debate over the state’s 2008 renewable energy law nearly came to a head. The Ohio Senate’s Public Utilities Committee planned to meet this week and possibly vote on Senate Bill (SB)…
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Six-State Study Confirms Job Numbers Exaggerated by Fracking Industry
Drilling in the six states that span the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations has produced far fewer new jobs than the industry and its supporters claim, according to a report released today by the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative, a group of state-level research organizations tracking the impacts of shale drilling. [caption id="attachment_312918" align="alignnone" width="531"] The oil…