Tesla Debuts Powerwall At-Home Storage
April 30, 2015 | Tesla Motors Last night, Elon Musk made a long-anticipated, yet unsurprising, announcement about Tesla’s plans to sell batteries for home energy storage. If you’ve already got solar...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Report: Death On The Job
May 1, 2015 | AFL-CIO May 1 is International Workers Day. It's also the day the labor group AFL-CIO unveils its annual report on worker fatalities, Death On The Job, Toll Of Neglect. Using Bureau of...
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Crude By Rail Accounts For More Than Half Of East Coast Refinery Supply In...
May 5th, 2015 | U.S. Energy Information Administration| Mindi Farber-DeAnda, Tony Radich The US Energy Information Administration reports, for the first time, that more than half of the crude oil sent...
View ArticleDeveloping: Oil Train Derails Near Heimdal, ND — Town Evacuated
May 6th, 2015 | Prairie Public | Dave Thompson Residents of a tiny North Dakota town were evacuated after an oil train derailed Wednesday morning and at least five tanker cars went up in flames,...
View ArticleDrillers Answer Low Oil Prices With Cost-Saving Innovations
May 11th, 2015 | New York Times | Clifford Krauss Oil prices have dropped significantly, but oil companies are keeping production up with new drilling techniques. The New York Times reports from the...
View ArticleCongress Isn’t Raising The Gas Tax, But These States Are
May 12, 2015 | The National Journal | Jason Plautz and Libby Isenstein Unless Congress passes an extension, the federal Highway Trust Fund will soon run out of money. This story from the National...
View ArticleWhy EPA’s Alleged ‘War on Coal’ May Actually Be A War On Wasting Energy
May 18, 2015 | The Washington Post | Chris Mooney It's certainly the case that if the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan goes into effect, the United States will burn less coal over time. Yet,...
View ArticleNatural Gas: Guardrails for a Potential Climate Bridge
May 28 2015 | The New Climate Economy | Per Klevnas, Michael Lazarus, Kevin Tempest A new paper from The New Climate Economy, a group formed to advocate for the economic benefits of acting on climate...
View ArticleObama Administration Readies Big Push on Climate Change
June 10, 2015 | The Wall Street Journal | Amy Harder First it was cars. Then power plants. Now, President Obama is turning his attention to cutting carbon dioxide emissions from commercial...
View ArticleGovernor Signs Bill Setting Hawaii’s Renewable Energy Goal At 100%
June 8, 2015 | Duane Shimogawa | Pacific Business News Earlier this week, Hawaii became the first U.S. state to adopt a 100 percent renewable energy standard. Governor David Ige signed four renewable...
View ArticleGoogle to Open New Data Center in Alabama
June 25, 2015 | The New York Times | Quentin Hardy Plans to take a retired coal power plant in Jackson County, AL into the future were announced today by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The site...
View ArticleThe Quadrennial Energy Review
April 21, 2015 | U.S. Department of Energy Today the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House released the first installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER). It’s more than a great Scrabble...
View ArticleCan the ‘Green Pope’ Change Minds On Climate Change?
April 27, 2015 | National Journal | Jason Plauts The progressive Pope Francis is holding a summit today at the Vatican to discuss climate change with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, ahead of an...
View ArticleSenators Vote To Block EPA’s Use Of ‘Secret Science’
April 28th, 2015 | The Hill | Timothy Cama On Tuesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted in favor of a bill that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using...
View ArticleTesla Debuts Powerwall At-Home Storage
April 30, 2015 | Tesla Motors Last night, Elon Musk made a long-anticipated, yet unsurprising, announcement about Tesla’s plans to sell batteries for home energy storage. If you’ve already got solar...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Report: Death On The Job
May 1, 2015 | AFL-CIO May 1 is International Workers Day. It’s also the day the labor group AFL-CIO unveils its annual report on worker fatalities, Death On The Job, Toll Of Neglect. Using Bureau of...
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Crude By Rail Accounts For More Than Half Of East Coast Refinery Supply In...
May 5th, 2015 | U.S. Energy Information Administration| Mindi Farber-DeAnda, Tony Radich The US Energy Information Administration reports, for the first time, that more than half of the crude oil sent...
View ArticleDeveloping: Oil Train Derails Near Heimdal, ND — Town Evacuated
May 6th, 2015 | Prairie Public | Dave Thompson Residents of a tiny North Dakota town were evacuated after an oil train derailed Wednesday morning and at least five tanker cars went up in flames,...
View ArticleDrillers Answer Low Oil Prices With Cost-Saving Innovations
May 11th, 2015 | New York Times | Clifford Krauss Oil prices have dropped significantly, but oil companies are keeping production up with new drilling techniques. The New York Times reports from the...
View ArticleWhy EPA’s Alleged ‘War on Coal’ May Actually Be A War On Wasting Energy
May 18, 2015 | The Washington Post | Chris Mooney It’s certainly the case that if the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan goes into effect, the United States will burn less coal over time. Yet,...
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