Energy Policy Changes in a Trump Administration
Many in the sustainability sector are worried about what a Trump administration will mean for energy policy. Trump made campaign promises to increase coal and hydraulic fracturing .
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Policies are very different
Never has the stark difference between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton been more clear on the issue most important to local voters. Clinton has detailed her position for several months.
Plan divvies up desert for conservation, energy projects
Swaths of public land in the California desert will be opened to solar and wind farms under a federal plan released Wednesday that preserves much of the landscape for conservation and recreation. The long-awaited blueprint finalized by the U.S. Interior Department after a yearslong process seeks to balance renewable energy development and species protection on 17,000 square miles of desert managed by the federal government.
Surprise! Texas is a leader in clean energy
When folks think of the Lone Star State, they might think of Big Oil and big emissions. But here's another, equally accurate image that folks might not think of when it comes to Texas: clean energy leader.
Regime seeks to avoid another – Special Period’
In one of his recent speeches Cuban President Ral Castro announced that from September onwards there will be a period of economic rationalization, particularly in terms of electricity consumption - associated without a doubt to the Venezuelan crisis. Cuba, which uses oil primarily to generate electricity, has eight thermoelectric power plants .
Feds Must Study Wind Farm’s Harm to Bats
Wind-turbine opponents convinced the D.C. Circuit that the government issued a permit to an Ohio wind farm without fully considering ways to reduce the deaths of endangered Indiana bats. Ohio-based Union Neighbors United brought the 2013 complaint in Washington, D.C., taking issue with the U.S. government's approval of a permit for the Buckeye Wind Power Project.
New York wind farm part of larger offshore energy ambitions
A New York utility plans to construct a wind farm off eastern Long Island that would be the nation's largest offshore wind energy project, three times larger than one due to go online this year off Rhode Island. A New York utility plans to approve a wind farm off eastern Long Island that it says would be the nation's largest offshore wind energy project built to date.
I Wrote a Book the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to Read
In the 1990s, I worked on a project to promote renewable energy. Even then, renewables were ready.
Energy Milestone: Renewables Power Portugal for Four Days Straight
Electricity consumption in the country was fully covered by solar, wind and hydro power in an extraordinary 107-hour run that lasted from 6.45am on Saturday 7 May until 5.45pm the following Wednesday, the analysis says. News of the zero emissions landmark comes just days after Germany announced that clean energy had powered almost all its electricity needs on Sunday 15 May, with power prices turning negative at several times in the day - effectively paying consumers to use it.
Obama has kept promises
Barack Hussein Obama To cure Congress, elect more former military members Democrats should end their hypocrisy when it comes to Kavanaugh and the judiciary Trump rated worse on ethics than predecessors going back to Nixon: Gallup MORE took to the stage at Invesco Field to accept his party's nomination. In that speech, he outlined an ambitious agenda for change - reversing the economic and foreign policies of a Republican administration that had sent America spiraling in the wrong direction.