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Clean Jobs Rising: New Report Finds Over 110,000 Jobs Announced In 2012
A new report by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), flagged this past week by the San Antonio Business Journal, found that over 110,000 new clean energy jobs were announced in 2012. The group tracked over 300 project announcements across multiple...
Sally Jewell Confirmation Hearing: Balancing Conservation and Energy
By Tom Kenworthy and Shiva PolefkaSally Jewell, President Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Interior and former CEO of recreation equipment giant REI, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee during her confirmation hearing...
How Crowdfunding Lowers The Cost Of Solar Energy
By Jesse Morris, via Rocky Mountain Institute.From Forbes to Fortune, Bloomberg to the Wall Street Journal, a young company named Mosaic has been getting a lot of attention of late. Why? Because Mosaic is bringing crowd-sourced funding to the world...
Los Angeles Aims To Be Coal-Free In 12 Years
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa intends to sign two agreements that will get the city off of coal-generated electricity entirely by 2025, according to reports flagged on Monday by the Sierra Club. Currently, the the Los Angeles Department of...
What You Need to Know About Energy Secretary Nominee Ernest Moniz
President Obama nominated MIT physicist Ernest Moniz as Secretary of Energy to replace outgoing Steven Chu. In his announcement, Obama called Moniz a “brilliant scientist” who “knows that we can produce more energy and grow our economy while still...
Solar Energy: Grid Parity In India, Italy, and More to Come in 2014
Deutsche Bank just released new analyses concluding that the global solar market will become sustainable on its own terms by the end of 2014, no longer needing subsidies to continue performing.The German-based bank said that rooftop solar is looking...
GM to Boost Electric Vehicle Production 20 Percent
After a difficult first year in 2011, during which Chevrolet sold a mere 7,671 Volts, sales of the vehicle shot up to a respectable 23,461 car sales for 2012 — driven largely by consumer demand reacting to high gas prices. According to the...
Forget Tar Sands: Canadian Hydropower Can Help US
By Mari HernandezOur neighbor to the north has an energy source that our nation has yet to fully utilize — and it’s not tar sands.Canadian hydropower has contributed to America’s clean energy economy, and has the potential to provide our nation with...
Curbing Carbon Emissions the Right Way
Electric power plants spew about 40 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution in the United States, but, amazingly, there are no federal limits on utility emissions of this potent greenhouse gas. The Obama administration plans to remedy this situation...
Trial Starts for BP’s Deepwater Horizon Clean Water Act Violations
By Shiva Polefka, Michael Conathan, and Kiley KrohIn November 2012, BP settled the Justice Department’s criminal case against it in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, agreeing to pay $4.5 billion in fines and admit it was guilty of...
Climate Change May Dry Up Important U.S. Reservoirs
As climate change makes the regions of the West, Southwest, and Great Plains warmer and drier, water demand will continue to increase, and the combined effect will place an ever greater burden on the country’s fresh water supplies — possibly...
Apocalypse Not: Oscars, Media, and the Myths of Climate Message
The two greatest myths about global warming communications are 1) constant repetition of doomsday messages has been a major, ongoing strategy and 2) that strategy doesn’t work and indeed is actually counterproductive!These myths are so deeply...
