Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Feed-In Tariffs

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Feed-in tariff: A policy tool encouraging deployment of renewable electricity technologies Source: U.S. Energy Information Administ...

National Defense Authorization Act for 2014

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The House and Senate are suspending regular order on a $607 billion Defense authorization bill in a last-ditch effort to get it to Preside...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Defense Energy Reservations

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Defense Energy Reservations (DER) would be renewable energy projects retrofitted, constructed and operated at United States military inst...

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

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DEFENSE ENERGY RESERVATIONS Barack Hussein Obama President Commander In Chief The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW...

OPEN LETTER TO SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE

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DEFENSE ENERGY RESERVATIONS Honorable Carl Levin Chairman Senate Armed Services Committee Room 228 Russell Senate Office B...

OPEN LETTER TO HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE

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DEFENSE ENERGY RESERVATIONS Honorable Buck McKeon Chairman House Armed Services Committee Room 2120 Rayburn House Office Building Wa...

Supreme Court To Review EPA Air Rules

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EPA's major air quality regulations, including two rules governing emissions from power plants, are slated for review by the Supreme Cou...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

Reject Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns

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One of the Center's primary goals is to use energy and natural resources as efficiently as possible.  We reject campaigns by some envi...

Interior Department Gives Wind Farms 30-Year Exemption From Bird Kills

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Today, the U.S. Interior Department issued a rule that would grant 30-year permits allowing wind farms and other projects to accidentally ...
Friday, December 06, 2013

California Utility Plans Power Lines to Export Renewables

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The Imperial Irrigation District is a fiscally responsible public agency whose mission it is to provide reliable, efficient and affordably p...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

RGGI Wants Flexibility From EPA

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RGGI States Recommend that EPA Support Flexible Market-Based Carbon Pollution Programs States Submit Comments on Proposed Carbon Poll...

CO2 Market Improves In California

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Offsets Issued & Auctions Upheld The “cap-and-trade” system enacted under California’s Global Warming Solution Act of 2006 (“AB 32”)...

White House & EPA Meet With Greens on Fracking Diesel

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Representatives from five environmental and government watchdog groups met with White House and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) off...

Obama Extends Federal Performance Contracting

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The Obama administration on Tuesday announced an extension of the president's initiative to increase energy efficiency in federal build...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

2014 Fuel Economy Guide

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EPA and DOE Release Annual Fuel Economy Guide with 2014 Models The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Ene...

EPA & USDA Support Water Quality Trading

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USDA, EPA Partnership Supports Water Quality Trading To Benefit Environment, Economy The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Env...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Virginia Approves Power Line Over James River

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Scott Neville/For The Washington Post             Dominion Power has proposed installing towers  across the James River that would be vi...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Coal Mine Closures & Layoffs Hitting Kentucky Hard

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Unprecedented pressures on the U.S. coal industry in Central Appalachian coalfields are seriously hurting counties in eastern Kentucky.  Whi...