Energy

Powering America: How Solar Energy Creates Green Jobs and Grows the Economy

Powering America: How Solar Energy Creates Green Jobs and Grows the Economy

Solar Energy Industries Association Calling job creation in America a “shared goal,” the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today joined other trade associations, labor unions, environmental groups and business and community advocates in pushing for new efforts to address climate change, rebuild America’s aging infrastructure and foster innovation. Members of the BlueGreen Alliance, which represents […]

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    Toxic and Tax Exempt: American Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Tar Sands Oil Spill Cleanup

    Toxic and Tax Exempt: American Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Tar Sands Oil Spill Cleanup

    Oil Change International By Erin O’Sullivan As the Obama Administration continues to ponder a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada has been assuring everyone of it’s safety. “Safety of the public and the environment is a top priority for TransCanada” their slick website reads. Any spill is deemed “unlikely.” Hardly. Last year, there were […]

    Apple Makes Progress on Path to 100 Percent Renewable Energy

    Apple Makes Progress on Path to 100 Percent Renewable Energy

    Greenpeace By David Pomerantz There’s more good news to report from the clean energy revolution that’s spreading like wildfire among the biggest technology companies in the world: Apple released an environmental report Friday showing that it has made real progress in its effort to power the iCloud with renewable energy—not coal. Apple announces commitment to power […]

    PART IV: America Becomes Sacrifice Zone for Export Pipeline

    PART IV: America Becomes Sacrifice Zone for Export Pipeline

    Michael Bishop [Editor’s note: Thanks to Michael Bishop for providing EcoWatch this firsthand account of what happens when a company like TransCanada claims eminent domain on one’s property and begins building a tar sands pipeline—the southern leg of the Keystone XL. Unfortunately, this is one of many examples of corporations putting profits before human health […]

    The Billionaire Against Big Oil

    The Billionaire Against Big Oil

    Oil Change International By Andy Rowell Tom Steyer, a California billionaire and founder of one of the largest hedge funds, argues that the Keystone XL has become the defining issue in the climate change fight of our times. Environmentalists are used to having to fight an opposition with deep pockets. And Big Oil normally has […]

    Oregon Residents Sound the Alarm on Pending Coal Export Permit

    Oregon Residents Sound the Alarm on Pending Coal Export Permit

    Power Past Coal More than 450 Oregon residents and a diverse group of local leaders flooded the steps of Oregon’s Capitol Wednesday morning to call on Governor Kitzhaber to deny Ambre Energy a dredging permit at the Port of Morrow. Photo courtesy of Michael O’Leary, National Wildlife Federation Many community leaders and residents feel they […]

    Exposing the ‘War on Coal’ Charade

    Exposing the ‘War on Coal’ Charade

    Media Matters for America By Shauna Theel Following the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), conservative media are once again claiming that the Obama administration’s U.S. EPA has waged a “war on coal.” But that narrative ignores how natural gas has outcompeted coal, and why the long-overdue Clean Air […]

    HOT WATER: ‘Erin Brockovich of Uranium’ Exposes the Toxic Legacy of Nuclear Power

    HOT WATER: ‘Erin Brockovich of Uranium’ Exposes the Toxic Legacy of Nuclear Power

    Hot Water The world premiere of Hot Water, a new documentary exposing the long-term devastation wrought by uranium mining and the nuclear industry, will launch the 21st annual Environmental Film Festival in Washington D.C. The film follows the investigative journey of Liz Rogers, the “Erin Brockovich of Uranium,” as she travels around the nation examining […]