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“As a former Secretary of State, I see our dependence on foreign oil as one of the greatest threats to national security, and the Dirty Energy Proposition would undermine efforts to break that dependence.” says former Secretary of State under former President Ronald Reagan; George Shultz. The Sacramento Bee reports that the prominent Republican [...]
A new $2.4 million biogas and energy efficiency project at a sewage treatment plant in Washington State will capture methane gas from the treatment process and recycle it as fuel to run equipment at the plant, saving the sewage agency more than $228,000 yearly in utility costs. That’s a pretty decent payback, especially since $1.7 [...]
The BP/Haliburton oil spill disaster is front page news in the sorts of newspapers that never mention an even larger environmental disaster: climate change. Because they don’t; it’s hard to get clean energy legislation passed – because most people don’t give a damn. At least compared to the fossil industry. Their whole raison d’etre is [...]
In what appears to be a match made in solar heaven, the renewable energy company Solar ReFeel has partnered with solar industry leader Solyndra to test a greenhouse that produces both food and electricity with a photovoltaic system integrated within the structure of the building. The test is being conducted at a facility owned by [...]
Choosing the best shipping service can be difficult. I know that every time I ever had to do so, I felt a little clueless as to what company I should choose. I don’t live in the US anymore, but I know how I would go about this now if I did. An online shipping service [...]
The utility company National Grid has teamed up with solar specialist Rivermoor Energy to build a 1-megawatt solar array at a former industrial site in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The new project is more than double the size of its closest competitor, a 425 kilowatt solar array located on the site of a former brownfield in Brockton. [...]
