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President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) to lead the Department of the Interior, according to reports.
As much as $906 billion total annual turnover could be at risk because of deforestation, according to a CDP study.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) – an investor-owned utility that provides natural gas and electric service to about 16 million people in the Golden State – announced on December 9 that the company expects to reach a net energy metering (NEM) milestone of 2,409 megawatts (MW) of installed private rooftop solar capacity on the energy grid this month – representing more than 275,000
On December 9, customers in more than 80 cities across the Texas Panhandle saw their Xcel Energy bills increase by 4 percent, according to a report by the ABC7 Amarillo news affiliate.
The news is mostly good, but uncertainty on what's ahead in Washington and at least one abandoned initiative are yellow flags.
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Dynapower Company and Samsung SDI have introduced an energy storage platform. The initial version of the Dynapower Samsung SDI BTM-250 offers 250KW and 550 kWh service levels. A 100 KW system will follow, according to the press release. The platform combines Dynapower’s new Generation 2 MPS product line of behind-the-meter ... Read more »
Retrolux and Lunera are partnering on smart lighting products. The press release, posted at Solid State Lighting Design, says that Retrolux’s integrated software solutions for the commercial lighting retrofit industry soon will be exclusively featured in Lunera’s smart LED products. The release says that Lunera offers LED replacements for HID ... Read more »
America's major corporations may not have as many new regs to follow during the Trump years. But they will probably remain duty-bound to conform to the ones that have been on the books, given that those will be a lot harder to toss out.
UPS is using eBikes to deliver packages in Portland, Oregon to reduce carbon emissions as city populations and e-commerce grow.
Commodity crop production in the US continues to demonstrate improved environmental outcomes in energy use efficiency, irrigation water use efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, land use efficiency and soil conservation, according to a Field to Market report.
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The EPA has proposed a ban on some uses of the toxic chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) because the agency says it poses health risks when used as a degreaser and a spot removal agent in dry cleaning.
In the Aloha State, the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative's (KIUC’s) rates for its 33,000 member accounts have fallen by 18 percent since 2008, according to a December 7 report in Pacific Business News.
In Connecticut, more than 322,000 households cannot afford to pay their retail energy bills, according to a statewide 2016 Home Energy Affordability Gap assessment conducted and released by Operation Fuel, The Ridgefield Press reported on December 7.
Beginning in January, Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) will reduce the additional cost for about 1,000 customers who currently participate in its Green Energy Tariff, known as WindChoice – by as much as 76 percent – the utility announced on December 8.
A multiyear, multiphase project aims to cut use as far as it will go.
In most people’s eyes, high speed Internet access is a laudable community goal. It is, however, causing a problem in Wisconsin, according to Midwest Energy News. The site says that efforts are underway to increase access in the state, which ranks next to last. However, the story says that clean ... Read more »
Sheridan Community Schools – which serve the central Indiana town of the same name — are going 100 percent solar, according to WFYI. The story says that the district, which has slightly more than 1,000 students, expects to save between $4 million and $5 million over a 20-year period. The move is ... Read more »
Advocates for hydro power point to US Department of Energy report that says the energy form could grow by 50,000 megawatts by 2050. That, in turn, would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.6 billion metric tons and save $209 billion in avoided damages from heat-trapping emissions.
Healthy is the new green — in the building industry, at least. In a move that aims to make it easier for green building projects to achieve both the WELL Building Standard and BREEAM, the International WELL Building Institute and BRE have teamed up to identify alignments between the two ... Read more »
Ford and major other automakers are lobbying president-elect Donald Trump and the EPA to roll back emissions and fuel-efficiency standards, which the industry says are neither achievable nor cost-effective.
ASTM International has revised its guide for disclosure of environmental liabilities.
Entergy and Consumers Energy announced on December 8 that they have agreed to an early termination in 2018 of their power purchase agreement (PPA) for the Palisades Power Plant – reducing the costs to Consumers' customers by as much as $172 million over four years.
Members of the Armed Forces who are deployed on active duty overseas soon may see a break back home on their power and gas bills, if they are Mississippi-based.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) issued a proposed settlement agreement (Docket No. M-2016-2536806) with licensed energy retailer Great American Power for comment on December 8 following an informal investigation into the company’s marketing and sales practices in the Keystone State. The commission voted 5-0 to issue for comment the ... Read more »
The two military training institutions face similar problems – and helped each other see where some easy gains can be made.