November 10, 2009: Senate Committees Continue Clean Jobs Bill Hearings
The Senate’s Finance and Energy and Natural Resources committees will look at the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act’s job-creating potential today. Grist warns that the committee’s scheduled speakers are a collection of “polluter lobbyist” representatives hostile to the bill.
The E.P.A. submitted its finalized proposed finding that greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to human health to the White House yesterday.
Under the Clean Energy Partnership Act, farmers, land owners, and cities could generate revenue by turning unused spaces into carbon-absorbing greenery.
Citing a recent study finding 55 percent of Americans unaware that cap-and-trade legislation was even being considered by the federal government, a piece at Greenbiz questions whether the American news media are adequately covering climate change issues.
Zerofootprint’s smart new TalkingPlug is an electrical socket design that allows energy users to monitor electricity consumption.
Local Green: Representative Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., is urging the Interior Department to approve the Cape Wind project - what could be America’s first offshore wind farm - before next month’s international climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
A piece at the Huffington Post summarizes Colorado’s clean energy accomplishments and suggests additional ways to push the state and nation forward.
Rather than relying solely on tax credits and subsidies, New Jersey has become the nation’s second largest producer of solar energy, in part through its market-based, tradable credit system .
In other Garden State news: the largest solar array to serve a single manufacturing plant commenced operations yesterday.
–Christopher Greenspan
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