Salazar Signs Lease for Cape Wind, Nation’s First Offshore Wind Farm
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday signed a 28-year lease for Cape Wind, officially clearing the way for the nation’s first commercial offshore wind project after a prolonged, eight-year...
View ArticleEast Coast States Race to Harness Offshore Wind
ATLANTIC CITY -- This gaming town on the southern tip of New Jersey might seem an unlikely place to launch a clean-energy revolution. But in 2005, Atlantic City became the site of the nation’s first...
View ArticleMaryland Hearing Weighs Potential Costs, Benefits of Offshore Wind
As state policymakers work to jump-start a vast offshore wind economy along the Eastern Seaboard, advocates are working hard to allay concerns among some lawmakers that a network of capital-intensive...
View ArticleSandia National Laboratories Study Quantifies the Risk of Climate Change...
In 2010, staff at Sandia National Laboratories undertook a study of the near-term economic risks associated with a changing climate in each of the lower 48 states along with 70 industry sectors....
View ArticleOpportunities and Challenges Posed by the Marcellus Shale
In the wake of Japan’s nuclear disaster, BP’s oil-well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and the many environmental reservations that have been expressed about coal, natural gas is fast becoming the fuel...
View ArticleState EERSs Produce Cost-Effective Energy Savings, Reports Say
State Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS) have grown in prominence over the last ten years as a means of lowering consumers’ utility bills, reducing the need to build expensive new power plants...
View ArticleThe Implications of FERC’s New Transmission Planning Rule for New England...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) finalized an important rule on U.S. electricity transmission planning and cost allocation in July 2011, and now is responding to questions and concerns...
View ArticleThe Newest Question in the Continuing Debate about Shale Gas and the Environment
Among the environmental controversies sparked by the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract shale gas, the most basic one concerns the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted over the fuel’s entire life...
View ArticleOffshore Wind Industry Says Progress Hinges on State, Federal Policies
Proponents of offshore wind development say the clean power source could transform the energy economy of the Atlantic Seaboard, although formidable cost and regulatory barriers continue to hamper...
View ArticleOn the Road to Zero Waste: How Two of North America’s Leaders are Succeeding
Webinar Moderator: Representative Chris Ross, Chair, Pennsylvania House Urban Affairs Committee; Chair, CSG/ERC Energy & Environment Committee Webinar Speakers: Bob Kenney, Recycling Development...
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