Republican presidential front runner Mitt Romney makes more money in one day than the average American makes in a year. With $20.9 million in income last year and a lower tax rate than most middle-class Americans, perhaps he’d be willing to join the thousands of homeowners around the country who are investing in solar?
Following up on the clean energy promises and programs mentioned in Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, below is more detail on Obama’s new energy plan.
Yes, finally, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized important air pollution standards that will protect the health of countless Americans. The standards will help to reduce mercury, arsenic, acid gas, and cyanide, among other things, from power plants. “By substantially reducing emissions of toxic pollutants that lead to neurological … [continued]
Below is the full text of Obama’s jobs speech last night, as provided by the White House, with key parts for CleanTechnica readers bolded, but first some overall comments:
Bicycles (most efficient mode of transportation known to mad) + bamboo (super fast-growing, environmentally friendly plant) = awesome bikes.
Here’s a wrap-up of some of the good or big cleantech (and dirty tech) politics stories we didn’t cover from the last week or so, to complement our wrap-ups of big solar and wind energy news and other cleantech news. Obama Says “Climate Change” Again As I noted over on … [continued]
We covered the great news this week that Obama finally accepted the solar panel that Jimmy Carter originally put on the White House and is going to put it on there again. But there are a couple of other big Obama/clean energy news stories from the past week or … [continued]
The current President of the United States of America certainly has been exercising his Commander-in-Chief duties, not only by starting to extricate our troops from Iraq and plugging the gaps in veterans’ care left by the previous administration, but also by making a series of very public actions in support … [continued]
According to IMS Research, a total of 14.6 GW of solar PV capacity would be added this year which would mark a 95 percent increase from the previous year’s figure. However, the research also notes that sales in the European Union could stagnate and new markets would drive growth in … [continued]
Today, President Obama told twenty three senators who met at the White House to discuss proposed climate legislation, to use the funds of polluters, not taxpayers, in order to fund the replacement of existing fossil energy with new climate-safe energy. Senators coming out of the meeting say that President Obama … [continued]
