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Federal Water Tap: EPA Releases Draft PFAS Groundwater Cleanup Guidance

Federal Water Tap: EPA Releases Draft PFAS Groundwater Cleanup Guidance

By the Numbers 5: Priority recommendations that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has implemented since March 2018. Those actions relate to chemical standards, nonpoint water pollution and water pollution assessment. There are, however, 14 priority recommendations that the agency has not acted on. (Government Accountability Office) News Briefs PFAS Groundwater Cleanup Standards The EPA […]

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    Major Coal-Fired Power Plant in Washington to Go Solar

    Major Coal-Fired Power Plant in Washington to Go Solar

    By Starre Vartan It was once Washington state’s largest coal pit, a terraced, open-to-the-sky strip mine, five miles from the city of Centralia and halfway between Seattle and Portland, Oregon. Today, the coal beds are quiet and blanketed in green, but an adjacent TransAlta power plant with three tall stacks still churns out electricity the […]

    Wind Energy’s Swift Growth, Explained

    Wind Energy’s Swift Growth, Explained

    By John Hall The wind industry is growing quickly around the world, especially in China and the U.S., where the total amount of electricity generated by wind turbines nearly doubled between 2011 and 2017. All told, about 25 percent of global electricity now comes from renewable sources like hydropower, wind and solar energy. As a […]

    Mainland Portugal Generated More Renewable Energy Than It Needed in March

    Mainland Portugal Generated More Renewable Energy Than It Needed in March

    Renewable energy sources made up 103.6 percent of mainland Portugal’s electricity use this March, according to industry information released Tuesday and reported by Reuters. Portugal has been a leader in renewable energy since before 2016, when it broke records for running on renewable sources for 107 hours straight. March’s milestone indicates how far renewable technologies […]

    New York Announces Nation-Leading $1.4B Investment in Renewables

    New York Announces Nation-Leading $1.4B Investment in Renewables

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced $1.4 billion in funding for 26 large-scale renewable energy projects across the state, the single largest commitment to renewable energy by a state in U.S. history. The awarded projects—including 22 utility-scale solar farms, three wind farms and one hydroelectric project—are expected to create more than 3,000 short- and […]

    100+ Cities Now Powered by at Least 70% Renewables

    100+ Cities Now Powered by at Least 70% Renewables

    A growing list of cities and municipalities is leading a renewable energy revolution that their national governments either cannot—or will not—address. More than 100 cities around the world now get at least 70 percent of their electricity from renewable sources such solar, wind, geothermal and hydropower, according to new research from the non-profit CDP. That’s […]