July 21,2010
By : William Lustgarten
Tallahassee — Today the Florida Legislature destroyed the last possibility of Florida embrassing Clean Renewable Energy.It took just two hours Tuesday to reject Gov. Charlie Crist’s proposal to give voters the chance to amend the state Constitution and ban offshore oil drilling. What goes thru the minds of our Republican leadership is [...]
Senator Introduces Solar Energy Legislation, Senate Democrats Hit Agency on Energy Plan, U.S. Department of Labor Awards Funds to Support Green Jobs and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Announces $100 Million in Innovative Research Projects
Students at Key West High School are learning about alternative energy firsthand — by making biodiesel to power a school bus and participating in a wind turbine pilot program.
An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in India. They report, in the International Journal of Global Energy Issues, on the success of the 1000-liter system operating at a university hostel.
When we recently ran an article about ideas on ways to cool the planet, we were swamped with emails from people who were impassioned in their belief that global warming is a myth. It was striking that so many people held views at odds with what is apparently the consensus among climate scientists, as well as policy makers.
Several U.S. Senators have introduced a bill to provide a tax incentive to solar energy equipment manufacturers in a bid to create new jobs
India plans to announce increased subsidies for solar-power generation, a senior government official said, as the country looks to scale up production of renewable energy and show it is committed to mitigating climate change.
An acknowledgment by the world’s biggest governments that they won’t reach a climate-change agreement by next month underscores the political challenges of negotiating such a deal — and raises questions about when they might do so.
Standing in rural Florida amid 180 acres of solar panels, President Barack Obama announced $3.4 billion in federal stimulus grants to modernize America’s power grid and create jobs.
Demonstrating a commitment to lead by example, President Obama signed an Executive Order (attached) today that sets sustainability goals for Federal agencies and focuses on making improvements in their environmental, energy and economic performance.
News from the blog
- FLORIDA LEGISLATURE DESTROYS SOLAR ENERGY FUTURE
- Updates in Regulatory and Legislative Policies
- Key West High School makes alternative energy
- Solar Water Heating Pays For Itself Five Times Over
- What Global Warming?
- Solar Industry Lobbies for Manufacturing Tax Credit, Cash Grant
- India to Boost Funding for Solar Power
