October 5th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Yesterday, our team at the Center for Science and Democracy met with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to discuss EPA’s yet-to-be-released final rule, Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science
June 10th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Toward the end of President Obama's time in office, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched a "Battery500 Consortium." The goal is in the name: reaching 500 Wh/kg battery energy density with lithium-metal battery cells, a target which was reportedly triple the battery energy density at the time
February 26th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Plains, Georgia, is a small town that is just south of Columbus, Macon, and Atlanta and north of Albany. It is the hometown of former United States President Jimmy Carter. On his farmland, there were once nut and soybean crops that would stretch their fingers to the ends of the horizons as if reaching for the unknown. Those have been replaced by 3,852 solar panels that provide clean energy for over half of Plains,
September 26th, 2019 | by Daryl Elliott
In a podcast by RevealNews.org, a story is told of a scientist, Maria Caffrey, PhD, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who works with the US Park Service. She did a four-year study of the potential impact of climate crisis on 118 national parks in 2030, 2050, and 2100. It was finished in late 2016 just before Donald Trump ascended to the presidency (after losing the vote by nearly 3,000,000 votes)
May 21st, 2019 | by Nexus Media
Republicans are caught between oil industry donors, who want offshore drilling, and coastal voters, who fiercely oppose it
November 28th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Monday, US President Donald Trump strove to undermine his own Administration's Fourth National Climate Assessment, saying that he had "read some" of the report but that he doesn't "believe it."
November 7th, 2016 | by Cynthia Shahan
The Obama administration has been on a role advancing EV charging across the US. The latest news from the administration is that the United State Department of Transportation (DOT) is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors. Thank you, President Obama, and we hope you and Michelle will be driving in an all-electric vehicle soon as well.
August 5th, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
The White House Council on Environmental Quality has this week directed Federal agencies to consider the impacts of their actions [&hellip
July 25th, 2016 | by Cynthia Shahan
The private sector is a big part of the fresh plan to accelerate electric vehicle adoption in the United States. 50 industry partners [&hellip
July 23rd, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
As I’ve written many times, I think the #1 barrier to quicker electric car (and electric bus) adoption is simply [&hellip
July 22nd, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
The main story regarding the White House’s latest EV push was the $4.5 billion put into Department of Energy loan guarantees [&hellip
June 23rd, 2016 | by Jake Richardson
The White House recently announced that a number of federal actions and commitments from the private sector could result in [&hellip
December 20th, 2015 | by Roy L Hales
Originally published on the ECOreport. The US omnibus budget bill was passed by overwhelming majorities in both the Senate (65 to [&hellip
December 20th, 2015 | by Tina Casey
With the lifting of the US crude oil export ban, domestic oil producers are gearing up for another growth spurt, but clean power may win out after all
November 23rd, 2015 | by Derek Markham
In order to help make solar energy more inclusive, and to bring the benefits of solar out to a larger [&hellip
July 27th, 2015 | by Steve Hanley
Originally published on Solar Love. 10 years ago, presidential candidate John Edwards told voters there were two Americas — one for [&hellip
July 11th, 2015 | by Zachary Shahan
Originally published on Solar Love. Solar power costs have come down so much in recent years that going solar is [&hellip
