5,000 Green Jobs: Watchdog Report
You’ve heard us talk often about the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI); it’s an innovative program of nine Northeast states which…
Obama’s Clean Power Plan
December 1st, marked the end of the public comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan aimed at cutting carbon pollution from power plants.
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Besting a Bully: Watchdog Report
The public notched an important win against the fracking industry as the state’s highest court affirmed the right of our communities to ban drilling.
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What Makes A “Green” Bank
Over the last decade New York has invested over a billion dollars in its clean energy and climate action programs. To…
To defeat Keystone, environmental movement goes from Beltway to grassroots
To defeat Keystone, environmental movement goes from Beltway to grassroots
An architecture firm based out of Stockholm is proposing to retrofit one of the city’s towers with millions of energy-generating straws, thereby turning the building into an urban power plant
Stockholm-based architecture firm Belatchew is proposing to retrofit a tower on one of the city's island neighborhoods with 14 new floors and millions…
Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the U.S., will begin powering one of its distribution centers with spoiled food
A review of scientific literature published this week has found that 97 percent of peer-reviewed papers taking a position on global…
Compressed air could help wind energy plants to save power at night, when winds are strongest for generation during the day, when demand is high
Enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month could be stored in porous rocks deep underground for later…
An ongoing battle over whether to use animal manure to generate energy to run farms and agribusinesses continues in the North Country
Lowville town councilmen plan to digest a few comments before adopting laws regulating manure digesters and solar energy systems.