July 28, 2019
Stories tagged "clean energy"
July 17, 2019
Senate Dems Hold First Climate Hearing Highlighting Actions By Mayors
Yesterday, Senate Democrats determined to work around Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s unwillingness to legislate on the climate crisis, held their first hearing highlighting the work to combat climate change being undertaken by mayors across the U.S. ...July 12, 2019
This is an excerpt of an Op/Ed that was first published in The Washington Post. It is reprinted with their permission. Monica Medina, an adjunct professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, is an independent consultant and co-founder and...
June 5, 2019
World’s Largest Commercial Ocean Current Energy Project to be Developed Off Florida
By Alexandra Patel On May 29th, the limited liability company OceanBased Perpetual Energy signed a memorandum with the Florida Atlantic University’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) to secure their assistance in embarking on what is being...May 21, 2019
India invests in solar power, will the trend continue?
In India, the world’s third largest emitter of GHG emissions, a staggering 74% of the country’s electricity generation comes from coal-fired power plants, and coal use is continuing to increase as the population continues to grow. But new data suggests...May 9, 2019
Heroes of the Week: Clean Energy Change Makers in Tucson
In Tuscon, 90 percent of the public gets its power from coal and other fossil fuels, which degrades the air quality particularly for the Latinx community there. The south side neighborhoods are home to all the area’s major polluting sources, including a gas-burning...May 5, 2019
Inslee’s Climate Proposal Ups the Ante
Democratic hopeful (high hopes) and Governor of Washington State, Jay Inslee, released his proposed plan to take on climate change — which is the rationale for his candidacy — and it is the most aggressively progressive climate plan thus far, raising the...April 29, 2019
Dems Insist on Dealing With Climate Change In Infrastructure Package
The Democratic leaders of Congress are expected to meet with President Trump today to talk about infrastructure legislation and will make clear that no infrastructure spending bill will move through Congress without significant funding for climate change resilience,...April 25, 2019
How Green Is Joe Biden?
Joe Biden, the latest candidate to join the Presidential race, has yet to say where he stands on many of the issues, like the Green New Deal, President Trump’s regulatory rollbacks, and oil and gas drilling on federal land, to name just a few of today’s...April 8, 2019