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What Solar Panels on the White House Signals About the Future of Rooftop Solar 26 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
The growth of solar energy in America is simply stunning. Today, hundreds of thousands of Americans have already gone solar. The costs of solar panels have dropped 80 percent from 2007 to 2012. The so...
#CoalFreeEBRD: A Twitter Storm to Call Off European Funding for Coal 26 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
[View the story "#CoalFreeEBRD!" on Storify] --Jennifer Edwards, Sierra Club National Online Organizer
Solar Crowdfunding's Lessons Learned 26 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
We have two broken systems - energy and finance - which conspire to support a coal fired centralized grid that never reaches the poor while driving dangerous climate change. That means 1.3 billion peo...
Grassroots Activists Mobilize Against Proposed Louisiana Coal Export Terminal 23 Aug 2013 | 09:28 pm
Big Coal's "RAM" idea is being met with calls to "scram!" The "RAM" coal export terminal being rammed through Louisiana's permitting process by coal companies has aroused the ire of communities that ...
Bike Share Helps to Close Gender Gap 23 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
In a blog post a couple of weeks ago, I discussed the gender gap in biking citing a new report, Women on a Roll. The report, which was created by Women Bike, a new program from the League of American ...
Pacific Rim Trade Talks May Become Even More Secretive 23 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
Brunei is a tiny, remote country in Southeast Asia with a population smaller than that of Washington, D.C. It's also the location of the current round of trade talks between the United States and elev...
Wyoming Coal Lease Sale Attracts Zero Bidders 22 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
On August 21, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lease sale in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for 149 million tons of publicly-owned coal failed to attract a single bid. It was the first time that a federal coal t...
Court Decision on Yucca Mountain Doesn't Change a Thing: Yucca Mountain is Dead 19 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
On Tuesday August 13, a federal appeals court ruled that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must restart its licensing process. The 1983 Nuclear Waste Policy Act required the NRC to approve or re...
Environmental Justice Activists Look to Close Big Polluter's Loopholes 19 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
A loophole is a polluter's best friend -- and today, community activists from fenceline communities traveled to Washington, D.C., to try and close one of them. These concerned citizens were in Washin...
Clean Energy Summit Highlights Nevada's Energy Shift 16 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
What a difference a year makes. One year ago at the National Clean Energy Summit in Nevada, Senator Harry Reid joined the Moapa Band of Paiutes in calling for the retirement of the Reid Gardner coal-...
