Cool Climate Bingo
Addressing the climate crisis can feel like a monumental task with growing challenges like extreme fires and droughts, increasingly severe weather and rising sea levels. But our “cool climate bingo” …
Responsible Wind Power: Protecting Wildlife While Solving Climate Change
The return of the California condor is one of America’s most heartening wildlife stories. Due to habitat loss, poaching, and lead poisoning, this most magnificent and largest of North American …
Looking Beyond “Energy Week” to a Thriving Energy Future for Wildlife
Last week was labeled Energy Week by the White House. Sadly, but not surprisingly, the rhetoric and ideas coming from the Administration could have led one to believe that it …
Senate Finance Committee Can Re-open the Door for Renewable Energy
On the last day of 2013, the wind power industry lost two important tax credits to an expiration date that never should have been set in the first place. The …
Can Congress Renew Hope for Renewable Energy Development?
As the second session of the 113th Congress develops, it is my great hope that Congress can leave its abysmal bill passage record in the past. In 2013, Congress signed just …
Renewable Energy and Public Lands
Guest post by Hayley Connolly-Newman I was recently a participant in a National Wildlife Federation lobby day fly-in to Washington D.C. Not only was jetlag having effects of what felt …
Sailors Know the POWER of Offshore Wind Power
Well before I understood how essential it is that we realize our offshore wind power potential in America, I knew that there was something unspeakably special about the wind offshore. …
Wind Energy Needs Us to Master its Parts, their Sum, and the Whole – Luckily, We Can
“We want to do more … but there are real limits to what a state can do.” I recently attended a Wind Energy Finance and Investment Seminar in New York …
