Conservation

Finding Ways to Train Wind Energy Technicians

A story in the Community College Times notes that creating new training programs for clean energy jobs isn't always an easy path. As budgets tighten, school-to-school collaborations like the one … Read more

Two New Reasons to Break Our Oil Addiction – Now

Two major reminders about how urgent it is for America to break its addiction to oil.
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Tribal Leaders Address Climate Impacts, Clean Energy Bill

PHOTO: (from left) Mike Williams, chairman of Alaska Inter-Tribal Council; Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico; Jerry Pardilla, executive director of the National Tribal Environmental Council; and John Echohawk, executive director … Read more

Senate Progress for Clean Energy & Climate Action

The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act yesterday on an 11-1 vote. Read more

Report from Barcelona UN Climate Talks

Against this backdrop thousands of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change delegates and observers have converged to set the stage for a Copenhagen climate deal.
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Big Oil Buying Off Our Future?

Check out this new report from the Center for Public Integrity, The Global Climate Change Lobby. Fossil fuel industries are spending millions worldwide to spread fear and misinformation about climate … Read more

Highlight of the Week: Public Behind Them, Lawmakers Continue Legislative Momentum

Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee began marking up their version of comprehensive climate and energy legislation, buoyed by a CNN poll showing that 60 percent of Americans support efforts to … Read more

Economic Message of the Week: Obama Announces Billions in Smart Grid Investments

President Obama announced the largest energy grid update investment in history, establishing funding for technologies that will drive the American clean energy economy. The grant awards, part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery … Read more

Poll: 60 Percent Back Carbon Cap

A CNN poll shows 60 percent of Americans support a plan that restricts carbon pollution and institutes a system for trading emission allowances.   The survey comes as deliberations begin in the Senate Environment … Read more

Stat Experts Confirm Warming Trend

As if the thoroughly discredited theory of global cooling needed another strike against it, statistics experts have come out with a new rebuttal of the well-worn climate-denier chestnut.   A review of … Read more