Tag: climate change

Why Our Energy Choices Matter in a Warming, Water-Constrained World

In a future of growing climate change impacts and water strains, the water implications of our electricity choices are way worth paying attention to. A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists …

July 17, 2013
69,000 Americans Pledge Civil Disobedience Against Keystone XL Pipeline

More than 69,000 Americans are pledging to risk arrest to halt the construction of the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline. In a stand of solidarity with those living along the pipeline’s path …

July 17, 2013
NRG Solar Acquires Large-Scale Solar Project on Guam

NRG Energy, Inc. , through its wholly-owned subsidiary NRG Solar, today announced the acquisition of a 25.65-megawatt (AC) solar project on the island of Guam from Quantum Guam Power Holdings, LLC, a wholly-owned affiliate of Quantum Utility Generation, LLC .

July 17, 2013
Not the Tea Party the Koch Brothers Had in Mind

Last week the Tea Party Patriots helped push a proposal through Georgia’s Public Service Commission that requires the state’s largest electric utility to more than double the amount of solar power…

July 16, 2013
New-Age Cement Made from Recycled Fly Ash

VHSC Cement produces Pozzoslag 1.2 using coal fly ash as a raw material through its patented reactor system, which uses both physical and chemical means to create a new cementitious material. Developed to overcome the early set time issues that have historically hindered the use of higher volumes of fly ash and slag in many…

July 16, 2013