There is a petition on the website of the United States government’s White House to construct a network of fast chargers for plug-in vehicles. The petition states that the construction of this fast charging network will accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles. There aren’t many electric vehicles on American roads right now. … [continued]
By Tom Steyer Battle lines are being drawn. Foreign oil company TransCanada is spending millions of dollars trying to convince US policy makers that their Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a good idea for this country and for our people. I disagree. Just over three weeks ago, I launched a digital … [continued]
One of our readers has dropped a noteworthy petition in our comments a few times. I wanted to give it a bit more attention, since I know that the large majority of readers never make it down to the comments. The gist of the petition is to let Californians oversize … [continued]
The Tesla White House petition to allow direct sales of electric cars to consumers has now officially gotten Tesla’s support. Tesla Motors has been a game changer in the EV market, if not a role model for other EV makers and auto makers as a whole. One of the biggest … [continued]
It’s a big week for clean energy in Congress. Here’s another big action alert, this one from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), followed by an informational video on the bottom: Yesterday, Senators Bennet (D-CO) and Moran (R-KS) introduced an amendment to the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act, … [continued]
One more advocacy guest post of the day to keep clean energy advancing as fast as possible. This is comes to us from the Power of Wind / the American Wind Energy Association — it’s a repost of an email I recently received from the organization. Read it, Share it, … [continued]
A reader shared this with us on the CleanTechnica Facebook timeline. It’s a petition to support a huge wind farm in Wisconsin. It wasn’t created out of any special attack on the wind farm, it seems, but just proactively to help make sure this important wind farm moves forward … [continued]
Football teams, basketball teams and more have been putting solar panels up to power their stadiums. But not all have done so yet, of course…. Now, there’s a big push, created by the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center, to get the University of Michigan to put solar power on its stadium, the largest football stadium in North America.
