http://blog.cleanenergy.org Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:54:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initially appearing to have ignored TN in the siting of Coal Ash Public Hearings, the citizens of East Tennessee held their own public hearing to ensure their concerns were heard loud and clear. [caption id="attachment_9150" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Residents gather to discuss coal ash regulation"][/caption] On September ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/09/08/tennesseans-voice-coal-ash-concern-despite-epa/ Florida Clean Energy Needs Leadership The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA, the U.S. housing finance regulator) recently solidified its opposition to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. The lone renewable energy initiative that won support in the 2010 Florida legislature, charting state-wide procedures for PACE, was the only move for clean energy the ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/09/07/pace-florida-energy-policy/ This blog was co-authored with Jennifer Rennicks While Gulf communities are busy picking up the pieces that remain of their coastal heritage and natural resources following the BP oil disaster, we learned today that another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has exploded. At 10:30 EST this morning, an explosion occurred ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/09/02/another-oil-rig-explodes-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/ E. L. Jacobs, Jr. As a former chair of the Florida Public Service Commission, I am concerned that recent actions in Tallahassee to dismantle the PSC send the message that the views of the working and bill-paying public count for nothing. Those actions show contempt for balancing the ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/08/30/public-must-come-first-at-florida-psc/ To many people, it seemed inevitable that 2010 would be The Year we passed The Climate & Energy Bill to overhaul the way we make and consume energy in this country.  The stage was set in 2008 when Democrats gained control of both the Congress and the White House and ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/08/30/oil-spill-but-no-energy-bill-where-do-we-go-from-here/ [caption id="attachment_8962" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="With the release of two new energy efficiency programs, Governor Bredesen and his staff continue working to create a clean, efficient energy future for Tennessee."][/caption] The State of Tennessee announced two separate energy efficiency programs this week: one to assist residents in the purchase of energy efficient ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/08/26/new-tennessee-energy-efficiency-programs/ [caption id="attachment_8743" align="alignright" width="210" caption="By overwhelming bipartisan support, the NC General Assembly passed a tax credit for Combined Heat and Power."][/caption] On August 2nd, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed into law HB 1829, an expanded Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and renewable energy tax credit.  For the first time, investments ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/08/26/new-tax-credit-for-chp-in-north-carolina/ Last Friday the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced a new vision for its energy portfolio at their August Board meeting. (We will be blogging on this in more detail soon.) TVA CEO Tom Kilgore expressed the hope that TVA will become "one of the nation's leading providers of low-cost and cleaner ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/08/24/tva-announces-old-coal-retirements/ SACE is closely following the issue of coal ash waste, and the proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule to finally regulate the toxic by-product of burning coal.  To highlight the importance of this issue and the opportunities to get involved, we are re-publishing our national ally 1Sky's post on coal ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/08/24/time-to-crack-down-on-toxic-coal-ash/ The following Opinion piece from SACE staff was published in the Chattanooga Times Free Press on Sunday August 22, 2010. (Note that links and images were not published in the original version). *** As you read this, there is a good chance that your air quality is considered “unhealthy” because of ground-level ... http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/08/24/chattanooga-times-runs-op-ed-on-proposed-ozone-naaqs/