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GM's Chief Touts Electric Vehicles

March 7 -- General Motors's chief executive said the auto maker would cut fuel-consumption of its 2016 vehicles by almost 10% over current models by reducing the average weight of its cars and trucks. >>View Article

Wind Energy Lessons From Illinois: Q&A with AWEA’s Rob Gramlich

March 7 -- Last year, wind power accounted for more new generating capacity than any other energy source in the U.S., which topped the 60,000 MW mark for installed capacity for the first time. Illinois ranked fifth among states for most new capacity installed in 2012, according to state rankings by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). >>View Article

Guest Column: ACC Shows Hostile, Destructive Thinking On Solar Power's Promise

March 5 -- Is there such a thing as too much solar power? Are too many individuals and businesses putting solar panels on their roofs? Is it time to call a halt to the burgeoning solar energy industry, shut down all those profitable solar companies and find more ways of generating electricity from coal and other nonrenewable forms of energy? That's backward thinking. But that's the future that the Arizona Corporation Commission envisions as it proposes to take a giant step into the past and discourage Arizonans from installing solar panels. >>View Article

Oregon's Role In Reducing Dependence On Oil


March 5 -- In 2013, Oregon’s elected leaders have the opportunity to reduce our dangerous, single-source dependence on oil. >>View Article

Good Policy: Legislators Wise Not To Turn Back On Raising Renewable Energy Standard

March 5 -- Maybe it was a pro-business posture on development of Kansas’ wind energy industry. Or maybe it was the reminder that a renewable energy standard was a tradeoff to clear the way for construction of a new coal-fired power plant. Whatever it was, renewable energy sensibilities prevailed over the extreme conservative special interests that have had their way in Topeka this session more often than not. >>View Article

It's Rocky, But Our Transition To Clean Energy Is Well Underway

March 5 -- As the Obama Administration seeks to find its footing for a second term, there appear to be plenty of reasons to hold a very bleak outlook for clean tech in the U.S. and beyond. But when we take a look at some other indicators -- perhaps quieter data points that don't make the breathless headlines or trending tweets du jour -- a different story is emerging. >>View Article

Many Ohioans Support Renewable Energy; Will The Ohio Senate?

March 5 -- Ohio has been on a positive renewable energy track since alternative energy standards were put into place in 2008 and recent voter polling shows that many Ohio residents support clean energy policy and investment in the state. >>View Article

GOP’s Mistaken Attacks On Renewable Energy


March 5 -- Lawmakers are stooping to some dirty tactics to attack clean energy on both sides of the state line. >>View Article

Reid Correct About Renewable Energy

March 4 -- Nevada is home to tremendous untapped clean energy potential, as Sen. Harry Reid eloquently described in his recent address to the Nevada Legislature. The sensible reforms to the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard that he outlined should be implemented without delay. Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard should chart a course toward additional solar, geothermal and wind investments while closing loopholes such as credits for an out-of-state hydroelectric project built more than a century ago. >>View Article

Renewable Energy: We're Using More Of It

March 4 --Wind energy. Renewable energy. Alternative energy. The amount of energy Michiganders use that has been produced by wind and other renewable sources has increased substantially in recent years. When someone flips a switch to turn on a light in their home in Petoskey or Charlevoix, a portion of the power to that light will have come from a wind farm. >>View Article

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