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Bipartisan Energy Efficiency Bill Could Lead to A Cleaner, Healthier Environment

Washington, D.C. – This morning Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) are expected to reintroduce the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, a bipartisan bill that promotes energy savings in our nation’s buildings, industrial sector, and within the federal government. 

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Solar is Booming, Industry Year in Review Released Today

Washington, D.C.—Today the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) released their annual year-in-review of market trends from 2012. The report found that photovoltaic (PV) installations grew 76 percent in 2012, and that the United States accounted for 11 percent of all global PV installations in 2012 -- its highest market share in at least fifteen years. California led the way with the most PV installations again this year, followed by Arizona, New Jersey, Nevada, and North Carolina – all with increased PV installations in 2012. Rounding out the remaining top 10 states are Massachusetts, Hawaii, Maryland, Texas, and New York.   

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Energy Nominee Should Follow President’s Call for More Renewable Energy and Cutting Global Warming Pollution

Washington, D.C. – Later today President Obama is expected to nominate Ernest Moniz to be the next U.S. Secretary of Energy. Environment America’s federal clean energy advocate Courtney Abrams issued the following statement:

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Bipartisan Leaders in U.S. Senate and House Move to Jumpstart Offshore Wind

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) and U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) and Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.) today introduced companion bills in the U.S. Senate and House to incentivize offshore wind development. The bills would provide an Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for offshore wind power worth up to 30 percent of the cost of the project for the first 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind projects in the United States. Eleven additional senators are listed as original cosponsors: Chris Coons (D-Del), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Angus King (I-Maine), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), William "Mo" Cowan (D-Mass), Ben Cardin (D-Md) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass).

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Major Companies Join President Obama in Reducing Energy Use, Cutting Global Warming Pollution

Washington, D.C. – Last Thursday, three major companies – Macy's Inc., Johnson Controls Inc., and Sprint Nextel Corp. – joined the Obama administration’s Better Buildings Challenge, committing to reduce their buildings’ energy use by at least 20 percent by 2020. 

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President Obama Outlines Plan to Tackle Global Warming with Clean Energy

Washington, D.C. – Tonight, President Obama delivered his State of the Union address. Margie Alt, executive director of Environment America, responded with the following statement: 

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Alliance Commission's Energy Productivity Plan would Cut Global Warming Emissions

Last week, the Alliance Commission on National Energy Efficiency Policy, led by U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) and National Grid US President Tom King, released a plan to double our country’s energy productivity in the next twenty years. The Alliance estimates that if the goals of the Energy 2030 plan are achieved, U.S. carbon emissions will decline to 4.65 billion tons by 2020, 22 percent below 2005 levels. Environment America’s Energy Associate Meredith Epstein released the following statement in response:

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President Obama, Congress Save Wind Power in Fiscal Cliff Agreement

Washington, D.C. – Today President Obama will sign into law a bill that extends key tax credits for wind power and averts the ‘fiscal cliff.’ The main federal incentives for wind power – the renewable energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) and the offshore wind Investment Tax Credit (ITC) – expired on December 31, 2012, but with today’s new law will now be available for wind power projects that start construction over the next year, allowing for continued growth of American wind power.

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Northeast Governors Urged to Strengthen Cap on Global Warming Emissions from Power Plants

With state officials poised to propose major changes to the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI); the nation’s first cap on carbon pollution from power plants, environmental organizations and clean energy advocates are calling on Governor and state officials in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to embrace a cap on power plant emissions that will reduce emissions 20% by the end of the decade.  

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Obama Administration Announces First “Smart from the Start” Offshore Wind Lease

Offshore wind off the Atlantic coast took another step forward yesterday when Obama administration officials reached agreement on a lease with offshore wind developer, NRG Blue Water Wind, LLC,  for commercial wind development in a 100,000 acre area about 12 miles off the coast of Delaware.

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