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Nuclear Industry Withers In U.S. As Wind Pummels Prices
March 11 -- A glut of government-subsidized wind power may help accomplish a goal some environmentalists have sought for decades: kill off U.S. nuclear power plants while reducing reliance on electricity from burning coal. >>View Article
Oklahoma Is Ahead Of Schedule In Renewable Energy Goal, Officials Say
March 8 -- New wind projects have pushed the state's renewable energy goal higher than the 15 percent target set for 2015. >>View Article
Iowa Sets Wind-Generated Electricity High
March 8 -- Wind-generated electricity made up 24.5 percent of all the electricity generated in Iowa in 2012, making Iowa the first state in the nation to exceed 20 percent of all generation from wind. >>View Article
Mosaic Delivers Crowdfunding As A Clean Energy Fuel
March 8 -- An Oakland, California-based startup called Mosaic has introduced a crowdfunding platform that could deliver some financial stability to clean energy firms. >>View Article
Companies Collaborate On E.V. Charging For All
March 8 -- Public charging companies tend to develop their own billing networks, so an E.V. driver who is running on empty can be out of luck if the only available station is operated by an “out of network” provider. Collaboratev is working to make that problem history. >>View Article
Viewpoints: Investment Needed In New Low-Carbon Fuel
March 7 -- Large oil companies like to tell the public "We Agree" when it comes to clean energy. But in Sacramento and Washington, their motto seems to be "It Can't Be Done." A Jan. 31 article in the San Jose Mercury News, "Chevron and its allies take aim at California's low carbon fuel standard," demonstrates how the oil industry has once again banded together to oppose groundbreaking environmental initiatives. >>View Article
Don't Stop Renewable Energy Subsidies. Just Make Them Better.
March 7 -- There are better ways of providing tax support to renewable energy, […] like allowing investors to form things called master limited partnerships, which offer tax benefits that encourage investment. >>View Article
Crowdfunding Clean Energy
March 7 -- If you wanted to get large numbers of people actively engaged in helping to solve global warming, how might you go about it? For years, the main approach in the environmental movement has been to sound the alarm bell and implore people to consume less, switch to green products, recycle, and speak up to companies and politicians. It hasn’t always been an easy sell. However, if the approach of a promising Oakland-based start-up takes hold, there may be another line of action that could become available to ordinary people: directly financing renewable energy. >>View Article
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
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