Wind energy enjoyed a record year of installations in the US in 2012, adding 13,124 megawatts of capacity, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
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David Doniger (Photo: Matt Greenslade)
Texas, together with a slew of industry associations and right-wing groups, has brought a blizzard of lawsuits to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s initial steps to reduce the dangerous pollution that is driving global warming.
As President Obama said yesterday, EPA is carrying out its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act and the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA.
The lawsuits, I’ve observed, mainly serve as fashion accessories to dress up the big polluters’ lobbying campaign to attack the Clean Air Act and keep EPA from doing its job – a campaign we can expect to continue in the next Congress. But as fashion accessories, the lawsuits have a “see-thru” problem.
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By Tom Kessler
When it comes to energy, everyone knows the U.S. is in hot water. Now the federal government intends to do something about it.
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne yesterday announced a plan to make more than 190 million acres of Federal land in 12 western states available for development of geothermal energy resources, an initiative that “could increase electric generation capacity from geothermal resources ten times over.”
The plan would produce 5,540 megawatts of new electric generation capacity from geothermal resources by 2015 — enough to power 5.5 million homes. The plan, known as the Final Geothermal Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, also estimates an additional 6,600 megawatts by 2025 for a total of 12,100 megawatts – enough to power more than 12 million homes.
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By Harriet Blake The climate change bill may be stuck in Congress but green initiatives march on. From the coasts to the heartland, states are taking matters into their own hands with many governors leading the way. Among the most prominent “Green Govs” today are Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Democrat Deval Patrick of [...]
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