Tina Casey specializes in military and corporate sustainability, advanced technology, emerging materials, biofuels, and water and wastewater issues. Tina’s articles are reposted frequently on Reuters, Scientific American, and many other sites. Views expressed are her own. Follow her on Twitter @TinaMCasey and Google+.
July 25th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
So, this is weird. In one corner, you have US President* Donald J. Trump talking up the fossil fuel industry and denying climate change, and meanwhile his Department of Energy is touting a breakthrough in biofuel production and dropping another $40 million on new research aimed at ramping up the bio-based economy of the future
July 21st, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Researchers are beginning to nudge lithium-ion energy storage aside with a new breakthrough for batteries based on cheap, plentiful sodium
July 20th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Right in the middle of "Made in America" week, the iconic US railroad company -- and major coal hauler -- CSX pronounced the death of fossil fuels
July 19th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
The Trump Administration cut the US wind power industry from its Made in America list, so Energy Sec'y Rick filled the gap with a rousing shoutout
July 17th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
A new Energy Department grid study was slammed by wind and solar fans but a leaked draft indicates that renewables get the thumbs up for grid reliability
July 12th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
The nation's first compressed air energy storage system in almost 40 years spells yet more trouble for coal industry stakeholders
July 9th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Look! Squirrel! Energy Secretary Rick Perry toes Trump clean coal line but pitches renewable energy at a furious pace to celebrate NREL's 40th birthday
July 5th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Wind harvesting drones are crossing over from wind power oddball territory into investor-attracting turf, with an assist from new materials and software
July 3rd, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Despite support for wind energy from within their own party, some Republican legislators in North Carolina are determined to halt wind farms in the state
June 30th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
As Energy Week limps to a close, tension mounts between the nuclear vision of Bill Gates and the natural gas leverage embodied by of Rex Tillerson
June 28th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Natural gas stakeholders join renewable energy fans in striking preemptive blows against the Energy Department's much anticipated grid reliability study
June 26th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
President Trump's Energy Department is still funding projects that push the envelope on solar and other renewables, and undercut his forthcoming grid study
June 26th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Weird week for Energy Dept. capped by news of offensive tweets -- and audio -- from head of Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs
June 22nd, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Concentrating solar power could snatch the huge food processing market away from the fossil fuel industry, if a new CSP demo plant proves successful
June 21st, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Did Energy Secretary just put his mouth with his recent remarks about CO2 or did he just put one over on Trump and his climate change denying supporters
June 19th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Trump or no Trump, the US Department of Energy is forging ahead with another $12 million in funding for "game-changing" ocean power projects
June 15th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
In case anyone is still wondering, the Trump Administration makes it clear: hello renewables, buh-bye US coal industry (and don't let the door hit you...)
June 12th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Trump talks up new Pennsylvania coal mine, Energy Dept. claps right back with a shoutout for a new program that ramps up rooftop solar
June 12th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Iowa's new Governor gives coal the brushoff, looks to wind and other renewables for job creation and economic development
June 8th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Energy Secretary Rick Perry drops a natural gas (and wind power) bomb all over President Trump's pro-coal rhetoric in a new post on the official DOE Blog
