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    Small Colorful Fish Gets Endangered Species Protection

    Small Colorful Fish Gets Endangered Species Protection

    A small, bright fish found in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama will start the new year on the Endangered Species list, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) reported Thursday. The trispot darter fish was thought to be entirely extinct in Alabama for more than 50 years until it was discovered in 2008 in Little Canoe Creek. […]

    Jimmy Carter Talks Solar Energy

    Jimmy Carter Talks Solar Energy

    I grew up on a farm outside of Plains, Georgia. It was the Great Depression years; we didn’t have electricity or running water. The first appliance we had was a windmill, for piping water into our house. In fact, we didn’t have any gasoline or diesel motors for a number of decades; mules and horses […]

    It’s Official: Nuclear Power Can’t Compete With Renewables

    It’s Official: Nuclear Power Can’t Compete With Renewables

    By Paul Brown The nuclear revival the global industry has been hoping for took another hammer blow this week when two reactors under construction in South Carolina were abandoned, only 40 percent complete. The plan had been to build two Westinghouse AP1000 pressurized water reactors to lead the nuclear revival in the U.S., but cost […]

    Thousands of Miles of Pipelines Enrage Landowners, Threaten the Future of Our Planet

    Thousands of Miles of Pipelines Enrage Landowners, Threaten the Future of Our Planet

    By Kristen Lombardi and Jamie Smith Hopkins They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people’s yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they’d spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction. Together these new and expanded pipelines—comprising 2,500 miles of steel […]

    Jimmy Carter Powers Half of His Hometown With Solar

    Jimmy Carter Powers Half of His Hometown With Solar

    By Joe McCarthy Jimmy Carter was the first president to put solar panels on the White House in 1979. Back then, it was a symbolic gesture, a hope that this strange alternative energy would one day pan out. “It can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever […]

    Atlanta Becomes 27th City to Commit to 100% Renewables

    Atlanta Becomes 27th City to Commit to 100% Renewables

    Atlanta City Council unanimously approved a measure Monday establishing a community-wide goal of transitioning 100 percent to renewable energy by 2035. The legislation was introduced by city councilman Kwanza Hall, who is also a candidate for Atlanta mayor. “We know that moving to clean energy will create good jobs, clean up our air and water […]

    Pipeline Spill Triggers Supplier ‘Red Alert’ in Alabama, Georgia

    Pipeline Spill Triggers Supplier ‘Red Alert’ in Alabama, Georgia

    Last week’s Colonial Pipeline spill has prompted Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to both declare states of emergency over gasoline shortages on Thursday. Aerial photo of two of the three mine water retention ponds at the site of a pipeline leak that spilled an estimated 250,000 gallons of gasoline in Shelby […]