Tag: Renewables
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Sally Jewell Confirmed as Next Interior Secretary
ECOWATCH — The U.S. Senate yesterday confirmed Sally Jewell as the next secretary of the Interior Department. The REI chief executive, nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Ken Salazar, won confirmation by …
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Fact vs. Fiction: How Renewables Outshine Fracking
JAY WARMKE — But just how real is this fracking boom when compared with other developments within the energy industry—specifically the exponential growth of renewable energy …
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Cleveland City Council Passes Resolution Supporting Ohio’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Laws
ECOWATCH — Last night, Cleveland City Council voted unanimously, 17-0, on an emergency ordinance, Resolution No. 13, supporting energy efficiency and renewable energy, and urging Governor Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly to preserve Ohio’s cost-saving energy efficiency and renewable energy laws …
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Renewable Energy Provides 82 Percent of All New U.S. Electrical Generating Capacity in First Quarter 2013
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COALITION — According to the latest Energy Infrastructure Update report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects, renewable energy sources accounted for 82 percent of all new domestic electrical generating capacity installed …
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Dirty Energy vs. Clean Energy in the Race to Power Off-Grid Energy Markets
SIERRA CLUB INTERNATIONAL — A war is shaping up that pits an entrenched, aging and uncompetitive fossil fuel industry against a young, innovative and increasingly competitive set of renewable energy technologies. The former relies on their entrenched status chock full of obscenely high subsidies to fight of a set of …