Today, SACE is pleased to announce our recent $5 million award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the creation of our new program “Clean Trucks Make Cents” (CTMC). The award, which SACE received through EPA’s SmartWay Clean Finance Program, will be used to guarantee loans for the purchase or lease of pre-2007 tractor-trailer [...]
The Tennessee Valley Authority is now on notice that its Draft Integrated Resource Plan misses the mark in what it proposes for developing the Valley’s renewable energy and energy efficiency resources. Before heading off for the Thanksgiving holiday, several public interest groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, submitted comments in response to TVA’s [...]
As we pass the half-way mark in this year’s annual U.N. climate change talks, the differences abound between the current negotiations in Cancun, Mexico and those which concluded last December in Copenhagen, Denmark. SACE’s executive director, Dr. Stephen Smith, and I had the privilege to observe last year’s talks (officially known as the 15th gathering [...]
TVA is accepting comments through December 4 on the draft environmental assessment for the construction of the Ashley Wind Energy Project. TVA plans to purchase the wind energy generated from the Ashley wind farm, which will be constructed in North Dakota. The wind energy purchase is a result of TVA’s December 2008 Request for Proposals for [...]
The last ash-burdened train departed Roane County, Tennessee and headed to Perry County, Alabama on December 1, 2010. The train’s load was toxic coal ash from the 2008 Kingston coal ash disaster that brought unprecedented devastation to East Tennessee two years ago this month. Two years after the spill and into the recovery process, one [...]
This week, the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee passed S.B. 3973, the “Voinovich-Carper Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2010″. This is a significant step on the bill’s path to (hopefully) becoming law. The next step is for the bill to come before the full Senate. Originally passed in 2005, the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act [...]
On March 31st, 2010 to the shock and amazement of clean energy advocates, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of the Interior would seek to lease offshore areas that were previously protected from oil and natural gas development as part of the new 5-year lease sale plan set to begin in 2012. Less than [...]
Today, the National Wildlife Federation, together with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Utility Workers Union of America, Environment America, National Audubon, Conservation Law Foundation, and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and many more state and regional partners, released a report on offshore wind energy. Using figures from a National Renewable Energy Laboratory study, the [...]
