President Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to Spur Transition to Smart Energy Grid
Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest...
2.5 Million New Jobs Could Be Created with Clean-Energy Investments
The Center for American Progress, alongside the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, has undertaken detailed analysis of the impacts that strong climate and clean-energy legislation could have on the U.S. economy. It looked at a suite of policies designed to curb CO2 emissions by driving investment into clean energy technology, and assessed their impact on employment opportunities, economic growth and people’s incomes.
Liberia Finds Solar Power Gets Things Moving Again
Liberians who live, study, or work outside the limited electric grid of the capital, Monrovia, do not have affordable, reliable...
AMORE Alliance Celebrates the Coming of Light to Remote Parts of Mindanao
On 10 June 2009, the coming of light to over 8,000 households in more than 270 rural villages in Mindanao...
Project for Algae to Turn Coal Plant C02 Into Biofuel Awarded $70m by DOE
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that Arizona Public Service (APS), Phoenix, Ariz., has been awarded $70.5 million...
Biofuels Industry Starts to Take form
On one side of a factory here, workers dump 500-pound sacks of pine chips into a hopper. Deep inside the plant, an 8,000-degree blow torch roars like a jet engine as the chips are processed. At the far end, the workers turn a tap and out pours ethanol, ready for use as a motor fuel. The facility, built by a company called Coskata, is not quite proof that a new era is at hand for American transportation fuels. But with the company claiming it will be able to convert wood waste into biofuel for about $1 a gallon, the plant suggests that day may be drawing nearer.
US Climate Bill Will Have Modest Economic Impact
Cutting greenhouse gases along the lines of a climate bill pending in Congress would modestly impact the US economy over...
Saving forests five times better than carbon capture for climate action
WWF Sweden is urging its government – holding the current EU Presidency - to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss as a key and highly cost effective measure on climate change. “Sweden should follow the examples set by its northern neighbors in developing systems to halt deforestation,” said WWF CEO General Lasse Gustavsson. “One Swedish krona to stem deforestation results in the same emissions reductions...
Green roofs offset global warming, study finds
Filling rooftops with plants and dirt can help pull a modest amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,...
New EPA Rule Will Require Use of Best Technologies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
LOS ANGELES– U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced today in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate...