Today the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy launches a new video highlighting the ways that we can drill for clean energy solutions in our region and not for oil. Our video comes out just days after the White House lifted the offshore oil drilling ban put in place in May 2010 as the Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil [...]
The below article by Peter Bradford, a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former chair of the New York and Maine utility regulatory commissions, originally ran in www.ElectricityPolicy.com on Monday, October 11, 2010. Learn more about this multi-faceted new website here. Access the article as posted in Electricity Policy and a .pdf [...]
TVA’s draft Integrated Resource Plan is missing something: a serious commitment to developing the Valley’s renewable energy resources. With significant solar, bioenergy and wind resources available throughout the TVA territory, these resources, along with energy efficiency, should be TVA’s go-to resources for meeting future energy demand. With the draft plan now out for public comments, [...]
This post was co-authored by Laura Wilson. October is Children’s Health Month and we want to take this opportunity to tell you about the serious health threat of diesel pollution, the risk of cumulative exposure, and how you can help mitigate this deadly pollution and protect your kids. During the course of a single day, [...]
In just over 24 hours, the world watched in thrall as 33 miners and 6 deployed rescuers were miraculously pulled from a collapsed mine shaft after spending 69 days over 2,000 feet below the surface. What could have ended in total disaster for those men and their families has instead ended in euphoric celebrations and [...]
This blog is a repost from Climate Progress, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. “It is less carbon intensive than oil we find in California,” extraction “really blends in with the natural habitat.” September 19, 2010 Who are you going to believe: Lindsey Graham or your own lyin’ eyes? [...]
Leon County, Florida (Tallahassee and vicinity), joined a gathering force of local and state government units and clean energy advocates in objecting to the Federal Housing Finance Agency ‘s mid-summer guidance to banks that effectively blocked PACE financing nationwide (PACE = “Property Assessed Clean Energy”). The County filed suit charging the FHFA, Fannie Mae and [...]
Updated: New video, pictures and summaries from 10.10.10 events throughout Florida and Tennessee – Read on! What does the date 10.10.10 signify? To some merely a symmetrical date of repeating numbers; to others a very lucky and auspicious date to hold weddings and cultural events. For hundreds of thousands of people at 7,347 events organized [...]
Yesterday was the final day at the American Wind Energy Association’s first North American Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Over the past couple of days, the conference provided many opportunities for meeting people from all parts of the offshore wind industry from around the world. Even though many of the people, [...]
I spent yesterday at the American Wind Energy Association’s first North American Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition in Atlantic City, New Jersey mostly in the policy and business track for panel discussions. The day was mostly spent focused on the regulatory process and perhaps the most important piece of project development: stakeholder involvement.
