Senatorial testimony opposing clean energy jobs legislation ironically reinforced arguments in favor of it, illustrating how the “do nothing” federal policies of the last eight years have decimated blue collar industries.
The Sierra Club’s Carl Pope explains why reducing CO2 emissions 20 percent by 2020 is not nearly as ambitious as critics of the Senate’s Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act claim.
A joint U.S.-China wind power project - the largest between the two nations so far - will bring more than 600 megawatts of clean energy to Texas. The project is expected to create 300 construction jobs.
Local Green:Grist’s continuing series investigating how Senators are likely to vote on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act profiled Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo).
The Clean Energy Empowerment Zone Act, introduced by Representative Dan Meffei, D-NY, would lure clean energy businesses to cities with an already existing industrial workforce and infrastructure.
America needs a manufacturing strategy that will capture the good paying green jobs of the emerging clean energy economy, says AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.
The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Rob Perks takes a state-by-state view of a new national study that says climate legislation could create nearly 2 million jobs.
Climate scientists have already debunked the “global cooling myth” proposed in the bestselling book Superfreakonomics. Now economists are attacking the book’s arguments from an economic standpoint.
Local Green: The newly constructed, LEED-certified, Eltona Apartments offer affordable homes to low-income residents of the South Bronx.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a Senate panel that the United States has “fallen behind” in the global clean energy race, but believes “we can make up the ground.”
A new report from Deutsche Bank and Columbia University’s Earth Institute says feed-in tariffs are a safe investment for those looking to back clean energy ventures.
A new report says strong clean energy policies will create nearly 2 million new jobs and bolster the overall strength of the U.S. economy.
Senator Jeff Merkley says the Senate climate and energy bill “put[s] us on a path to building industries and creating clean energy job[s], weaning our nation from foreign oil, and reducing pollution in order to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming.”
Local Green: Supporters of sustainable transportation are often derided as elitists, but a new photography exhibit in Los Angeles makes clear that the people it would most benefit are those who are economically and medically dependent on public transit.
A New Yorker staff writer explains why New Yorkers should be recognized as some of America’s greenest citizens - without even trying.
Local Green:Minnesota Steelworkers are already benefiting from clean energy developments in the region, and stand to gain more if Congress passes a strong climate bill.
The E.P.A. is proposing legislation that would reduce reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Great Lakes-going vessels.
–Christopher Greenspan
December’s global climate negotiations in Copenhagen are more likely to yield “interim steps” toward a CO2 emissions reduction agreement, rather than a comprehensive new set of regulations.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has experienced a mass exodus of members in recent weeks, due to its opposition to Congressional climate legislation. But the Chamber’s recent attacks are one strand in a 20 year history of opposition to clean energy efforts.
Local Green: Businesses across Wisconsin criticize the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s opposition to clean energy legislation.
The Port of Long Beach reached an agreement with the American Trucking Association regarding efforts to clean up the air around the nation’s second busiest seaport.
Economic stimulus funding helped bring nearly 1,650 megawatts of new wind power online in the third quarter of 2009, outpacing second quarter gains by over 400 megawatts.
New extraction techniques make natural gas - our cleanest burning fossil fuel - a more attractive bridge to cleaner energy sources, argues a piece at M.I.T. Technology Review.
Activist/pranksters the Yes Men’s latest stunt convinced a considerable portion of the media that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had come around to supporting Congressional climate legislation.
Two reports find evidence that investing in the clean energy economy will spur significant job growth, lower the unemployment rate, and expand economic opportunities for low-income Americans.
Local Green: A combination of tax incentives and cooperative regulators have made Iowa - now the nation’s second largest producer of wind power after Texas - a potential clean energy development model for other states.
Clean energy jobs and traditional energy jobs were a hot topic of debate during yesterday’s Senate hearings on climate and clean energy legislation.
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