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| 2010-03-09 | |
| Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and three solar business executives joined Environment America to lay out a bold new vision for solar energy in the United States. From laundromats and baseball stadiums, to homes and cars, generating energy from the sun is already enhancing energy security and reducing pollution in America. A new Environment America report outlines a vision for using the sun to meet 10 percent of the United States’ energy needs by 2030. | |
| 2010-03-05 | |
| Environment America will release a report, Building a Solar Future: Repowering America’s Homes, Businesses and Industry with Solar Energy, highlights the potential of solar energy and the many ways that solar power can transform life by enhancing energy security and reducing pollution. It also identifies the obstacles to wider use in the United States and indentifies a combination of policies that could boost solar enough to meet 10% of America’s energy needs. | |
| 2010-03-03 | |
| Ohio has more than 1,130 businesses involved in the energy efficiency industry, according to a new report by Environment Ohio, “Ohio’s Green Energy Economy: the Energy Efficiency Industry.” From home energy raters, to green architects, to retailers of energy efficient products, the report identifies businesses throughout the state that are already contributing to Ohio’s clean energy future. The report was released at a green business forum in Columbus this weekend, which featured a panel discussion with business and policy leaders. | |
| 2010-03-03 | |
| Denver, Colo. Today advocates at Vote Solar and Environment Colorado jointly released a new report, “Investing in the Sun,” that models the economic and environmental benefits of developing solar electricity on homes and businesses across Colorado. The analysis is released as the Colorado Senate is poised to consider HB10-1001, the centerpiece of this year's New Energy Economy agenda. Sponsored by Gail Schwartz (D-Snowmass) and Bruce Whitehead (D, Hesperus) in the Senate and Rep. Max Tyler (D-Golden) in the House, HB10-1001 requires investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to dramatically increase their percentage of electricity sales coming from local, distributed renewable energy projects, including solar. | |
| 2010-03-02 | |
| Today at the Savannah Technical College, President Barack Obama toured classrooms training students to install insulation and other efficient technologies and delivered remarks highlighting the proposed Home Star program for residential energy efficiency retrofits. Home Star was included in the Senate Democratic leadership’s Jobs Agenda for this spring, and is also being considered in the House for inclusion in job creation legislation. The program would provide rebates to consumers who invest in new energy efficient appliances, weatherize their homes, or purchase other efficient technologies for their home. Sean Garren, Environment America’s Clean Energy Advocate, released the following statement in response: | |
| 2010-02-19 | |
| Businesses gathered today to show their support for pending legislation in the Maryland General Assembly that would increase Maryland’s use of solar power. They were joined by key legislators and O’Malley administration staff. | |
| 2010-02-16 | |
| Today, President Obama announced a conditional loan guarantee for more than $8.3 billion to build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia. Environment America’s recent report Generating Failure: How Building Nuclear Power Plants Would Set America Back in the Race Against Global Warming (click here for report) shows that far from being a solution to global warming, nuclear power will actually set America back in the race to reduce pollution. Environment America urged the Obama administration and Congress to focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy instead of nuclear power as the solution to global warming. | |
| 2010-02-15 | |
| Today at the Capitol, a coalition of organizations announced that 12,000 Wisconsinites have signed a postcard to their legislators in support of the Clean Energy Jobs Act. The announcement comes three weeks after four hundred citizens visited the Capitol at the annual conservation lobby day, indicating a groundswell of support for the bill. | |
| 2010-02-05 | |
| Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, and Senators Byron Dorgan and Chuck Schumer released a Jobs Agenda Thursday that includes billions of dollars in investment for building retrofit programs and green transit projects. Alex Wall, Environment America’s Clean Energy Associate released the following statement: | |
| 2010-02-04 | |
| Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and Representative Steve Cohen (TN) introduced today the Ten Million Solar Roofs and Ten Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act, which would create a national rebate program for small solar photo voltaic and hot water heating systems installed in the next ten years. | |
| 2010-01-29 | |
| On Monday, the Department of Energy is expected to announce a tripling of loan guarantees – to $54 billion -- for nuclear power plants in its 2011 budget request. Environment America’s recent report Generating Failure: How Building Nuclear Power Plants Would Set America Back in the Race Against Global Warming (click here for report) shows that far from being a solution to global warming, nuclear power will actually set America back in the race to reduce pollution. Environment America urged the Obama administration and Congress to focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy instead of nuclear power as the solution to global warming. | |
| 2010-01-29 | |
| Today, President Obama unveiled the Federal government’s plan to reduce global warming emissions by 28% by 2020. Today’s announcement follows up on President Obama’s September 2009 Executive Order on Sustainability and includes the plans developed by all federal agencies to implement plans to reduce emissions by adopting measures, such as improving energy efficiency of buildings, installing renewable energy and improving the efficiency of their transportation fleets and the fuels that they use. | |
| 2010-01-28 | |
| Governor Corzine last week signed the Solar Energy Advancement Act into law. Supporters say the legislation reaffirms New Jersey’s commitment to solar power, creates greater security in the New Jersey solar market, and significantly expands the state’s long-term solar power requirements. | |
| 2010-01-22 | |
| California took another major step toward meeting its goal of building a million solar roofs and making solar power a mainstream energy technology today with the adoption of a new $350 million rebate program for solar water heaters. Consumers throughout the state can now take advantage of cash rebates for rooftop solar water heaters that promise to create green jobs, reduce air pollution and lower energy costs, according to Environment California a leading proponent of solar power. | |
| 2010-01-08 | |
| President Obama announced today that the Department of Energy will issue $2.3 billion in clean energy manufacturing tax credits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act– the vast majority of which will be used to spur more energy efficient buildings and wind, solar, and fuel cell power. | |
| 2010-01-07 | |
| Madison – As the state of Wisconsin begins to consider the Clean Energy Jobs Act, legislation aimed at reducing the state’s dependence on fossil fuels and creating new jobs in the clean energy economy, Wisconsin Environment Research & Policy Center released a new report today debunking recent claims made by special interest groups attacking the initiative. | |
| 2009-12-22 | |
| Representatives from business, Congress, and environmental organizations came together today in support of offshore wind power for Maryland. A new report finds that a wind farm off the coast of Ocean City, MD would reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions and help maintain a reliable electricity system with long-term price stability. | |
| 2009-12-14 | |
| Energy efficiency renewable energy are making a difference in U.S. energy production and consumption, according to the 2010 Annual Energy Outlook forecast unveiled today by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), but without additional policies, U.S. dependence on fossil fuels will continue to grow and global warming emissions from fossil fuels will continue to rise. | |
| 2009-12-08 | |
| President Obama highlighted energy efficient building retrofits and other infrastructure improvements as forces for economic recovery in his speech at the Brookings Institute. | |
| 2009-12-08 | |
| With the Senate continuing to shape comprehensive clean energy and global warming legislation and the President and many members of his cabinet traveling to Copenhagen for international climate negotiations, a diverse coalition has come together to urge the Senate to include an additional energy-efficiency measure that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, lower electricity costs for consumers and businesses, and reduce pollution that causes global warming. | |
| 2009-11-18 | |
| Raleigh, NC—North Carolina could meet a substantial portion of its electricity needs from the sun, according to a new report by Environment North Carolina Research and Policy Center. The study, “Growing Solar in North Carolina,” projects increasing numbers of solar farms and nearly 700,000 solar panels on top of homes and businesses in the next twenty years, including 100,000 solar roofs in the Triangle alone. | |
| 2009-11-17 | |
| Far from a solution to global warming, nuclear power will actually set America back in the race to reduce pollution, according to a new report by Environment America. | |
| 2009-11-16 | |
| Legislation released today by Senators Alexander (TN) and Webb (VA) would dramatically increase subsidies for new and existing nuclear power plants. | |
| 2009-11-02 | |
| As the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee takes up the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act this week, Environment America joined a broad-based coalition of nearly 200 business, labor, civil rights and environmental groups that have come together to urge the EPW Committee to increase funding for energy efficiency, which will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, lower electricity costs for businesses and consumers, and reduce global warming pollution. | |
| 2009-10-20 | |
| Environment North Carolina delivered handwritten letters from more than 600 North Carolinians and comments from a coalition of over 100 local businesses to Sen. Hagan’s Greensboro office today urging her to support the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. | |
| 2009-10-19 | |
| Investing in the energy performance of our nation’s homes would prevent 160 million tons of global warming pollution and save consumers $21 billion dollars on their energy bills every year, according to a new report released this morning from the office of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Council on Environmental Quality. | |
| 2009-10-01 | |
| New Jersey’s candidates for governor participated tonight in the first debate of the election season. The majority of the questions posed dealt with just one issue: taxes | |
| 2009-10-01 | |
| Energy Efficiency, Solar Power in Homes Will also Reduce Pollution, Save Water | |
| 2009-09-29 | |
| After over a year of work from a diverse group of stakeholders Atlanta seemed poised to adopt sustainable building standards that would make Atlanta part of a growing number of major cities that are aggressively pursuing the energy, water, and money savings that come with green building. | |
| 2009-09-24 | |
| On Tuesday, at the UN, President Obama called for the phase out of subsidies for fossil fuels to better address climate change. The burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, coal and natural gas, is responsible for 80% of global warming pollution emitted by the U.S. and is the leading source of emissions worldwide. | |
