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US Air Force to Quadruple Their On-Base Solar Power in Four Years

US Air Force to Quadruple Their On-Base Solar Power in Four Years

The United States Air Force -- already the biggest government buyer of renewable energy -- announced it will be quadrupling its on-base solar energy generation in the next four years. With the Department

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President Obama’s State of the Union Calls the Clean Tech Future Our Sputnik Moment

President Obama’s State of the Union Calls the Clean Tech Future Our Sputnik Moment

In President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last night, he called our current quest for green technology our generation’s “Sputnik moment”, urging the nation to see other

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Governer Scott Walker Wants to Pass a Bill to Kill Wind Energy in Wisconsin

Governer Scott Walker Wants to Pass a Bill to Kill Wind Energy in Wisconsin

The newly elected Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has just proposed a piece of legislation that would effectively kill the development of wind energy projects in the state. His proposal, which is

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Obama Allows Offshore Drilling To Resume Without Review

Obama Allows Offshore Drilling To Resume Without Review

This week the Obama administration allowed thirteen companies to return to their offshore oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico without further environmental scrutiny despite having stated in

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Federal Judge Blocks Part of California’s Climate Change Law

Federal Judge Blocks Part of California’s Climate Change Law

A federal judge in Fresno, California has blocked a portion of California's Global Warming Solutions Act, which aims to lower the carbon life cycle of fuel entering the state. The judge ruled that the

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Paris Looks to Ban SUV’s, Old Guzzlers From its Streets

Paris Looks to Ban SUV’s, Old Guzzlers From its Streets

Paris is throwing some serious muscle into winning the green transportation race and they're now even considering banning high polluting vehicles from their streets. With their already successful Velib

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Beijing to Eliminate Gridlock by Cutting Vehicle Registrations by 2/3

Beijing to Eliminate Gridlock by Cutting Vehicle Registrations by 2/3

Gridlock in and around Beijing, China is a huge problem -- earlier this year a traffic jam outside of the city stretched for 60 miles and lasted ten days. Fortunately, the Chinese government is about to

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Italy to Ban Plastic Bags Starting in the New Year

Italy to Ban Plastic Bags Starting in the New Year

Single use plastic bag bans and taxes are becoming increasingly popular with governments across the world (though unpopular with most store owners) and now Italy is gearing up to implement their own. In

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Newly Signed Tax Bill Extends Important Green Energy Credits

Newly Signed Tax Bill Extends Important Green Energy Credits

The tax bill that was causing so much contention in Washington has finally been signed and is set to extend much more than the Bush era tax cuts -- it will also give an extension to green energy credits

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World Bank to Fund Carbon Markets in Developing Countries

World Bank to Fund Carbon Markets in Developing Countries

As COP16 in Cancun, Mexico winds down this week, and high hopes for a world-wide agreement on climate change fade once again, the World Bank has stepped up announcing just yesterday that it will fund

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EPA in Catch 22 Situation as It Sets Fuel Standards for 2011

EPA in Catch 22 Situation as It Sets Fuel Standards for 2011

As part of a yearly legal ritual, the EPA just released their fuel standard requirements for 2011 and though the overall green fuel targets have remained, the same amount of cellulosic biofuel (biofuel

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US Senators Fail to Pass Ban on the Use of Harmful BPA

US Senators Fail to Pass Ban on the Use of Harmful BPA

The harmful effects of chemical bisphenol A (BPA) are becoming common public knowledge, but despite the adverse health risks that it presents – from hindering neurological development, to DNA

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US and India Chip In $50 Million Each for Green Energy Research

US and India Chip In $50 Million Each for Green Energy Research

President Obama is currently on a tour of the Asian continent and during a press conference this morning with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that India and the United States are forming a

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BP’s Alaska Pipeline Gets an “F” Grade for Maintenance

BP’s Alaska Pipeline Gets an “F” Grade for Maintenance

Even though our country is still up to its ears in oil in some places in the Gulf, BP continues to disappoint with shocking reports on shoddy oil infrastructure. First it was the other Gulf of Mexico BP

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California Climate Law Survives, Proposition 23 Defeated

California Climate Law Survives, Proposition 23 Defeated

Take that giant oil companies! Petroleum-backed California Proposition 23 was looking to overturn the most comprehensive climate law in the country but was stomped out at the polls yesterday by

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San Francisco Bans Happy Meals!

San Francisco Bans Happy Meals!

San Francisco is known as the evergreen city with their composting, their hordes of EV charging stations and now word on the street is that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to ban toy

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A Second BP Oil Rig in the Gulf is an Unsafe “Ticking Time Bomb”

A Second BP Oil Rig in the Gulf is an Unsafe “Ticking Time Bomb”

It seems BP hasn't learned its lesson just yet, though we for sure have learned ours -- stop drilling! President Obama just removed the temporary moratorium on new offshore drilling saying that they

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Bill Gates Gives $700K to Preserve Global Warming Law

Bill Gates Gives $700K to Preserve Global Warming Law

We all know Bill Gates is a philanthropist -- he's got so much money it must be a blast for him to give it away to good causes. Well, he's added one more to the list: Maplight.org recently reported that

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Government Proposes Tighter Rules to Curb Greenwashing

Government Proposes Tighter Rules to Curb Greenwashing

It's natural! It's compostable! It's biodegradable! It's non-toxic! We're living in a world of green claims that can sometimes seem unrealistic and unprovable. Well yesterday, the US Federal Trade

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Obama to Install Solar Panels on the White House This Spring

Obama to Install Solar Panels on the White House This Spring

Looks like President Obama has finally given in to the pressure -- the White House is about to go solar - again. In the 1970's President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the first

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California’s Gov. Schwarzenegger Mandates Green Energy Storage

California’s Gov. Schwarzenegger Mandates Green Energy Storage

Green energy is only as good as how you're able to use it. We talk a lot about smart grids and new ways to store electricity so that unused energy doesn't go wasted, so when we got wind of California

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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Announces Green Roof Initiative

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Announces Green Roof Initiative

New York City's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is about to add a whole lot of greenery to the concrete jungle. He just announced a campaign to install green roofs, sidewalks and porous parking lots in order to

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Study Shows BP Oil Spill Could Have Been Prevented by Regulation

Study Shows BP Oil Spill Could Have Been Prevented by Regulation

A new report by Member Scholars of the Center for Progressive Reform on the principle cause of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill concludes that the spill was entirely preventable and points blame at regulatory

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Obama Not Happy With US Climate Policy, Promises More Reform

Obama Not Happy With US Climate Policy, Promises More Reform

In a rather lengthy interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama spilled the beans about how he feels about the US government's current climate and energy policy and the good news is that he's just as

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Electric Car Adoption Found to Be Best Way to Kick Foreign Oil

Electric Car Adoption Found to Be Best Way to Kick Foreign Oil

As we see companies like GE and Better Place pushing towards the adoption of electric vehicles, we also see our governments sitting back waiting for the industry to work itself out while they pursue

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US Gives $50 Million for Clean Burning Stoves in Developing World

US Gives $50 Million for Clean Burning Stoves in Developing World

Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a public-private partnership called the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves to which the US government will donate $50 million to increase

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Regressive Bill Would Drop Ban on Incandescent Lightbulbs

Regressive Bill Would Drop Ban on Incandescent Lightbulbs

Hot on the heels of his infamous apology to BP earlier this summer during the congressional hearings into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Representative Joe Barton (R-Texas) has just offered a new

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China’s Green Energy Businesses are Breaking International Law

China’s Green Energy Businesses are Breaking International Law

As you well know, a lot of things are made in China, mostly because the cost of producing thing is much lower there than elsewhere. Recently the country has seen a boom in renewable energy manufacturing,

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Dept. of Energy Puts $8.5 Million Toward New Smart Grid Tech

Dept. of Energy Puts $8.5 Million Toward New Smart Grid Tech

We as a planet are only as good as our grid when it comes to sustainable energy development. We can build the best wind farms and solar projects but if our grid is antiquated, that power will never reach

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Obama Focuses on Green Energy and New Railways on Labor Day

Obama Focuses on Green Energy and New Railways on Labor Day

Yesterday President Obama gave a Labor Day speech to citizens gathered at the Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that outlined his plan to create more jobs in America while strengthening

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