Tag: News
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Report Finds Top Banks Moving Away From Investment in Coal
Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club and BankTrack released the fifth annual coal finance report card, Extreme Investments, Extreme Consequences, last week that tracks the financiers of the worst-of-worst coal companies. The report shows that even as high-profile bankruptcies and costly environmental cleanup settlements illustrate the growing risks involved with lending to coal companies, U.S. banks provided $31…
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5 Gyres of Plastic Trash Pollutes the World’s Oceans
It’s the silver lining of a tragedy when it takes a plane crash and the death of all its passengers to bring attention to an environmental catastrophe unfolding on a different time scale. 5 Gyres Institute has traveled 40,000 miles through all 5 gyres, including the Indian Ocean gyre, to discover each one contains a…
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Southern Company Acquires 20-MW Adobe Solar Facility in California
Southern Company subsidiary Southern Power, in partnership with Turner Renewable Energy, has announced the official acquisition of the partnership’s second California solar installation. The agreement to acquire the Adobe Solar Facility, a 20-MW solar PV installation in Kern County, Calif., was closed upon successful completion of construction. The facility representsRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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855-kW Roof-Mount Solar System Complete at Nice-Pak Products
Nice-Pak Products Inc. and its sister company, Professional Disposables International (PDI) — the world’s leading producers of pre-moistened wipes — celebrated Earth Week with a ceremony marking completion of the solar array that was installed on the roof of its headquarters and manufacturing plant. This 855-kW array, the largest ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Sunvalley Solar to Build 1.1-MW Solar System for Wreden Ranch in California
Sunvalley Solar announced today it has been awarded a new 1,122-kW solar system installation contract from Wreden Ranch in Hanford, Calif. The 1,122-kW contract is for a system capable of generating 2,096,352Wh of electrical power annually. “This is definitely a milestone for Sunvalley Solar in terms of the system sizeRead More — Solar Builder magazine