Recent tv ads are touting how green natural gas is, extolling the local production, job creation and environmental friendliness of natural gas. Of course,
Category: Energy
Want to win the Solar Decathlon? Don’t throw a hammer, swing it
To win the Solar Decathlon, you don’t have to run faster or throw a javelin farther than your competitors. The winner of Solar Decathlon
13 new state laws progressives can applaud
Thanks to some smart and courageous state legislators around the country, the progressive agenda actually inched forward in 2011. Yes, you read that correctly:
Info overload: 10 newsy bits too good to miss
Filed under TMI: Every week, there’s just too much information on the web, and a lot of stuff just gets lost in the shuffle.
No good news about nuclear waste, says GAO
The U.S. has a huge and growing nuclear-waste problem, and after years of study, multiple proposals and large expenditures, there’s still no workable solution,
Illinois smart-grid legislation faces opposition
The Illinois legislature is considering a bill that allows electric companies to raise rates for consumers in exchange for infrastructure improvements. Ameren and ComEd
U.S. military leads climate-change initiatives, and deniers know it
The U.S. military not only accepts the notion of climate change, its leaders see climate change as a national-security priority. But Congressional climate-change-deniers continue
“Clean” coal ad wars
Coal is clean, right? That’s what the media-savvy American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy [ACCE] tried to get us to believe in an ad
Why we need a green jobs program
Jeannette Wicks-Lim and her colleagues at the Political Economy Research Institute at UMass–Amherst think green jobs would be a powerful engine for job growth
Controversial bicycle “superhighways” open in London
The road to central London is a notoriously dangerous route for the city’s many cycling commuters. But now, the first two of 12 proposed