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Texas legislators balanced the state budget this year by diverting money from a fund to help the poor pay for electricity.
Temperatures are still soaring past the century mark and refusing to subside, many Texans are trying to find ways to lower their electric bills. One option that some low-income residents relied on is no longer available. Keep reading →
“Dear Governor Cuomo, I am writing to express my concern about fracking in New York State…”
This video and the ‘A Million Fracking Letters’ campaign it promotes, were created by Doug Wood, the associate director of a Port Washington, New York environmental organization, Grassroots Environmental Education. He even wrote the music himself. Keep reading →
When the lights switch on and the fountains rise, the World Trade Center will take on a new life that deepens the poignancy of the complex as more than buildings, but as a place of national renewal and remembrance.
For the last eight years, engineers from infrastructure giant Siemens have been working with the World Trade Center design team to guarantee that when the site comes back to life, it will be ahead of its time as a showpiece of the energy future in New York and the US. Keep reading →
The real question with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is asked in this podcast: How did it go so wrong?
The Northeastern US carbon dioxide trading system was proposed in 2003, less than a decade ago but a lifecycle ago in climate change politics. At the time, dealing with global warming was a top priority, and Republicans were seeking market solutions to what was perceived as a huge threat. Keep reading →
Pennsylvania’s booming shale-gas industry has called for so-called pooling that would require landowners who don’t want to lease their land for drilling to do so if their neighbors have agreed.
The state’s legislators aren’t likely this year to pass any laws that would force unwilling landowners to lease their land to gas drillers or impose state law on localities that want to pass their own regulations on the industry, Pennsylvania lawmakers said on Thursday. Keep reading →
A Colorado program to convert coal-fired power plants to natural gas could lead the way in increasing the use of the abundant, cleaner-burning fossil fuel for generation in the US, a top shale-gas executive said on Wednesday.
“Colorado is the best model for converting coal-fired plants to natural gas,” chief executive of Range Resources John Pinkerton told reporters after a speech to Shale Gas Insight, an industry conference organized by the Marcellus Shale Coalition. The coalition is an industry group representing energy companies active in the major Northeast US shale play. Keep reading →
Talk about the US electricity generation sector and most people refer to national trends, but the fact is that in recent years state and regional policy has been crucial to unique local energy developments, as this Breaking Energy infographic, using US government data, shows.
Click on the picture above for a full size version, or to download. Keep reading →
The green economy is more than quietly turning windmills and grand visions of new infrastructure; it is also construction boots on the ground in public buildings across the US.
With budget constraints looming on the mind of government officials at every level, the question of how to pay for mandated or wished-for infrastructure improvements that cut energy usage in public buildings has grown ever more pressing. The use of energy savings performance contracts may be part of the solution to that quandary. Keep reading →
Texans often have a kind of pride in the extreme weather their state can throw at them, but the ice storms of February 2011 tested even their tolerance as blackouts swept the state alongside freezing temperatures.
Many of the problems highlighted by the cold weather were potentially preventable, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said in a review of the incident earlier this year. But the response of those in the Texas power sector was without doubt heroic and swift. Keep reading →
