Other than our own stories, here’s some top cleantech and climate change news of the past few days: Clean Power Solar Power Bonnaroo Unveils First Permanent Festival Solar Array First Solar Begins Construction of Campo Verde Solar Project Arizona’s Black Mountain Solar Project Reaches Completion Financing Complete for Largest … [continued]
For some reason, there hasn’t been a lot of news in the past few days…? But there’s been a bit. Here’s a quick cleantech and climate change news roundup (head on over to our homepage for more news): Solar Power AE-AMD Renewable Energy And Tenesol/SunPower Begin Work On Two … [continued]
If presidential candidate Mitt Romney didn’t get Hurricane Isaac’s wind power memo back in August, maybe Hurricane Sandy can catch his attention with a broader message about getting out of fossil fuels and into clean energy. Sandy is on track to hit the mid-Atlantic states fully loaded, and right … [continued]
Here’s the bulk of a long email I received from the NRDC this week. Very apt, very on point, very useful, and… very objective (it’s centered around exactly what Obama & Romney have said and what’s in their policy proposals). Here you go: Mitt Romney has promised to roll … [continued]
A new study finds nearly half of federal candidates disagree with the 99.5 percent of professors publishing climate change research at their alma maters, who agree that climate change is real and human-caused. […]
Noted author and New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman tore into Obama at this year’s Greenbuild Conference in Toronto for some of his environmental and clean energy failures. He’s not the first to do so — Al Gore has, Rolling Stone has, Joe Romm of the blog Climate Progress has, Bill McKibben of 350.org has, and numerous environmental organizations have.
I don’t think any of them would say that Obama hasn’t done more than any Republican president at this time would do. But they have all expressed their great frustration at Obama’s lack of leadership and a number of big, sort of shocking failures (i.e. opening up Wyoming to massive coal mining, dropping strong smog standards, opening the Arctic up to oil drilling).
