As the U.S. federal government continues to drag its feet and gets stuck in partisan politics, state and local governments pick up the slack and keep the Green Initiative moving forward.
The latest climate and environmental policy to emerge from a state government in an increase in required renewable energy generation in the State of Colorado.
The [...]
The popularity of “Cash for Clunkers” has certainly died out (with questionable success) but that doesn’t mean that the U.S. Federal government and local state governments aren’t eager to apply this concept to other consumer products.
Many government officials and experts really believe that the quickest and most economical way to reduce our energy and fossil [...]
Very few people may ever think about the importance of the Great Lakes, but for a water system that holds 20% of the World’s freshwater it should be on everybody’s mind.
The Obama Administration is finally taking action on its campaign pledge of $5 billion to help preserve and restore the Great Lakes.
The Obama Administration has [...]
Recently there was a lot of news about new U.S. nuclear power standards and loan guarantees that seem to be a curve ball from the current administration, but the U.S. announced a new loan guarantee for a new solar thermal power facility.
It appears the American Investment and Recovery Act is still doing good and has [...]
The East Coast offshore wind farm known as the Cape Wind project has been in the news off and on over the past few years and it appears now that some regulators want to try to anticipate the next challenges instead of waiting for them.
The Cape Wind offshore wind farm has been delayed, stopped, pushed [...]
Norway had shocked many with the announcement of their ambitious emission reduction goals leading into Copenhagen, but recently Norwegian officials have finally released the outline to meet Norway’s ambitious reduction goals.
Prior to Copenhagen, Norway announced that they would reduce their carbon emissions by 30% by 2020. This was more ambitious than any other developed nation [...]
With “experts” stating that the recession is over or that we are due for another drop, it is tough to say how our current economy is actually doing. But, the State of Arizona has stated the down economy is causing them to pull out of a regional cap-and-trade agreement set to begin in 2012.
The interesting [...]
Sometimes of the best of intentions can potentially have severe and devastating, unintentional consequences. Brazil may have accidentally made this mistake with their ambitious biofuel production goals.
It is not that the increase in planting of biofuel crops to meet Brazil’s 2020 biofuel production goals are directly impacting the environment, but it is what these new farms will [...]
I know it may seem impossible but some Republicans do understand the need for comprehensive climate and energy legislation.
Given, some may not entirely believe the climate change thesis, many do understand the national security, oil, and job creation aspects of it.
The most outspoken Republican is Sen. Lindsey Graham who has been working with Sens. John [...]
Now that there has been a few days to really dissect the Obama Administration’s 2011 U.S. Federal Budget, we find that there is some good news for clean technology.
Even though at first glance the major headlines of the 2011 budget showed an increase to $54 Billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power and an extremely flimsy [...]