The Alliance to Save Energy — a coalition of prominent business, government, environmental, and consumer leaders — has scored big at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit with CarbonCount™, an exciting new system for scoring the carbon impacts of green bonds. This revolutionary financial innovation has the potential to steer large quantities … [continued]
Those who take the Wall Street Journal for gospel miss a lot of what’s going on with US energy, says Denise Robbins of Media Matters for America. Too bad they probably won’t get it if they stick to that source and ignore all the others. The Journal published an editorial two weeks ago that … [continued]
Two US renewable energy associations, the American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association, have jointly published a handbook that details how states can incorporate renewable energy into their plans to comply with US policy regulations. The handbook aims to help states comply with the US Environmental Protection … [continued]
Ultraconservative news media, the new Congress, and some state governments have heavily relied on the testimony of Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon to discredit national and international reports on climate change by mainstream scientists. It turns out they’re probably making a big mistake. Dr. Soon has claimed repeatedly that variations in the … [continued]
Two issues that greatly concern the US power sector—grid capability and carbon reduction needs—have just gained attention with a $48 million Clean Energy Initiative from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Heising-Simons family. The organizations announced the initiative on Wednesday. It will advance state-created clean energy solutions by funding a broad range of local, … [continued]
Today’s publication of the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance by the World Resources Institute will go a long way toward helping the business sector apply and advance its use of renewable energy. Investments in that sector, largely driven by offshore wind in Europe, and solar in China and the US, quintupled over … [continued]
North America’s carbon markets just completed the first international cap-and-trade system linkage and raised $500 million for clean energy investment.
Want to do something big for the environment when it comes to nonrenewable (aka “dirty”) power? You have about 10 days left to comment on the nation’s Clean Power Plan, as presented by the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year. The thing about dirty power is that it costs. The recent midterm … [continued]
The comment period on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan rules now has only 30 days to go. Public observations on the plan will only be accepted by the agency until December 1, 2014. You may already know about how to submit your views to the federal government, … [continued]
Would you like to know how US power plants stack up to the rest of the world’s in terms of carbon emissions? I doubt that many Americans will enjoy the answer. A report released this morning by Environment America, the national federation of statewide advocacy groups working on clean air, clean … [continued]
