MA Voters Keep Rejecting Wind Turbine Restrictions
It's happened again, this time in Plymouth. Once again, an effort to limit wind turbines was put before voters, citing hazy "health" concerns, and once again clean energy has won in a landslide.
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Wind Energy Opponents Go Bats
Over at Tucker Carlson's Right Wing rag The Daily Caller they are celebrating as 102 conservative groups target wind power subsidies. These groups oppose further extensions of the Wind Production Tax...
View ArticleMA Judge: Wind Turbines Cause "Dental Injuries"
I am not making this up: Barnstable County Superior Court Judge Christopher Muse has declared wind turbines cause dental injuries:
View ArticleWind Farms Can Now Kill Eagles
Today in an administrative change the Obama administration has given wind farms legal protections from prosecution for killing eagles for up to thirty years.http://www.pbs.org/...As with any species my...
View ArticleEd Markey and 23 Other Senators Push for Extension of Clean Energy Tax...
The budget deal crafted by Patty Murray and Paul Ryan puts the 1.3 million long-term unemployed Americans in a state of limbo as their benefits will get cut with the new year and Democrats are only...
View ArticleFighting Big Energy and the Koch Brothers
The opponents of renewable energy are prepared to spare no expense in destroying solar energy before it can get started. These opponents are bankrolled by the likes of oil companies, utilities and the...
View ArticleGreen German Power - another milestone passed. With update.
On Friday December 6th, renewable sources provided over one third of Germany's total demand for electricity - for the whole day.As you would expect in December, the vast majority of this was by wind,...
View ArticleTrump Unable to Sway Scotland to Reject Wind Energy in Favor of the View from...
While enough money funneled through organizations like ALEC or the funding web of Koch et al. can purchase many legal outcomes in the US, it appears the Trump Organisation spending train was unable to...
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MA-Sen: Ed Markey (D) Calls On Congress To Combat Climate Change
Received this e-mail today from Senator Ed Markey (D. MA) regarding climate change: Anyone who says that “the jury is still out on climate change” hasn’t been paying attention. The jury has...
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Environmental Necessity for Nuclear Power - Part 2: Wind?
WIND POWER - GOOD IDEA - BAD PRACTICE? Wind wakes affect the performance of downwind wind turbines.Cambridge, Mass. – February 25, 2013 –“People have often thought there’s no upper bound for...
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13 Native American renewable energy projects get funding from Department of...
Katie Valentine, Think Progress' rising star ecological journalist, generates enthusiasm with a breezy article announcing With Interior Department Funding, Native American Tribe Could Soon Build A...
View ArticleWind Turbines Kill Birds
Renewable energy must be the goal. No right-thinking person can deny that.But wind energy comes with a cost: The deaths of thousands of birds and bats each year.And the Obama administration is "not...
View ArticleAccelerating Use of Renewable Energy
US energy policy is stuck on reliance on natural gas. Most Americans understand that by the middle of the century most of our energy will have to be supplied by renewables – wind, water, and solar –...
View ArticleTime for Congress to Act and Save Clean Energy Jobs
Today, the US Senate is casting a vote critical to the future of the U.S. wind industry. Wind power has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, and the wind industry now employs more than 80,000...
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Supreme Court gives victory to Obama supporting right to regulate interstate...
The Supreme Court has handed a major environmental victory to President Obama reports Coral Davenport, of The New York Times. Her article, In Victory for Obama, Court Backs Rules for Coal Pollution,...
View ArticleThe British prime minister wants to ban new onshore wind energy
Climate change doesn't recognize international borders, so this matters:David Cameron, the British prime minister, wants to cut subsidies for onshore wind energy -- and potentially ban new...
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Hawaii's biggest utility company is forced to help customers install solar...
Image Credit: ILSRClean Technica reports that Hawaii’s Biggest Utility Company Forced To Help Customers Install Solar Panels, by the state"s Public Utility Commission which ruled that HECO was putting...
View ArticleHey, It's Windy out there!
If Wind Gusts ... were $20 bills-- would more people pay attention to them?9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wind Energyby TakePart Staff, takepart.com -- May 10, 2014[...] 5. The United States has 60,000...
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OH-Gov: Ed FitzGerald (D) Accuses John Kasich (R) Of Selling Out To The Koch...
So I am very happy that the Daily Kos has endorsed Ed FitzGerald (D. OH) in his bid to unseat Governor John Kasich (R. OH). And I am really liking this: http://www.businessinsider.com/... The Ohio...
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Reduced emissions from wind energy in 2013 was equivalent to taking 20...
Mark Del Franco of NAWindpower reports AWEA: EPA Rules Could Be Third Biggest Driver For Wind Behind PTC And RPS Policies. On Monday the Environmental Protection Agency proposed regulations to reduce...
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