Tag: Renewables
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How to Invest in Energy Efficiency to Combat Climate Change
Energy efficiency is estimated to be a multi-hundred-billion dollar investment opportunity in the U.S., but better policies are required to unlock broad-based financing from institutional investors, who together manage approximately $70 trillion in ass…
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Wake Up World Leaders: Expedite Renewable Energy, End Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The global temperature is rising. Freak weather events are multiplying. Climate change is happening. And yet governments are giving $6 to polluting fossil fuels for every $1 that goes to clean renewables.
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No Nukes Groundswell Hits California, Solartopia Rising
This comes as the nuclear industry is in nearly full retreat. Two U.S. reactors are already down this year. Yet another proposed project has just been cancelled in North Carolina. And powerful grassroots campaigns have pushed numerous operating reactor…
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Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy
President Obama selected Dr. Ernest Moniz, a scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as his choice to run the DOE. His confirmation has received mixed responses from health and environmental advocates …
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How Renewable Energy Can Transform New York State
They demonstrated how this translates into job growth, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, energy independence and security, improved water and air quality, protection of public health, lower health care costs and stabilization of energy costs …