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Mon, 2013-04-01 14:40 — mdmcdonald
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The Energy Working Group's mission is to identify the most feasible energy sources that will have the least environmental impact.

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Business Facilities: 2015 State Rankings Report

Tue, 2015-08-04 13:45 — Albert Gomez

Posted by:  Albert Gomez

By Business Facilities Staff
from the July/August 2015 Issue annual-rankings-report

We’ve revamped our Metro and Global rankings this year to include some new technology oriented benchmarks. The new Metro category entries include Advanced Manufacturing (Specialization), Tech Jobs Leaders, Fastest Broadband and STEM Leaders. Our Global Rankings this year also include a new ranking for Leading ICT Hubs (European Cities).

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Coal Crash: How Pension Funds Face Huge Risk From Climate Change

Wed, 2015-06-17 09:03 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Coal is moved on a conveyor belt at the PT Bukit Asam open pit coal mine in Tanjung Enim, South Sumatra province, Indonesia. Photograph: Dadang Tri/Getty Images

Special report: The plummeting coal sector and a growing green divestment movement is leaving firms who still invest in fossil fuels and connected pension holders heavily exposed

theguardian.com - by Damian Carrington and Caelainn Barr - June 15, 2015

The pension funds of millions of people across the world, including teachers, public sector workers, health staff and academics in the UK and US, are heavily exposed to the plummeting coal sector, a Guardian analysis has revealed.

It has also found that just a dozen people, including the owner of Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich, own coal reserves equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of China, the world’s biggest polluter. The UN, which advocates a shift to clean energy, has more than $100m (£65m) invested in coal through its own pension fund.

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Why This Tea Party Leader Is Seeing Green on Solar Energy

Wed, 2015-04-15 22:45 — Maeryn Obley

Debbie Dooley.Image:  Debbie Dooley.

e360.yale.edu - March 26th 2015 - Diane Toomey

Debbie Dooley’s conservative credentials are impeccable. She was one of the founding members of the Tea Party movement and continues to sit on the board of the Tea Party Patriots. She also serves as chairperson of the Atlanta Tea Party.

But on the issue of solar power, Dooley breaks the mold.

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Saturday, October 19, 2013 is Global Frackdown Day - attend an event near you

Tue, 2013-10-08 21:29 — admin

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On Saturday, October 19, 2013, there will be hundreds of events taking place throughout the world to bring to light the dangers of fracking.

See what events are taking place in your area

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Is Fracking in Florida's Future?

Tue, 2013-10-08 20:49 — admin

www.news-press.com - October 8, 2012 - Mary Wozniak

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CLEAN TECH OPEN- SOUTHEAST REGION

Sun, 2013-08-04 22:37 — Albert Gomez

http://www2.cleantechopen.org/

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The Cleantech Open is a not-for-profit organization that runs the world’s largest accelerator for cleantech startups. Our mission is to find, fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental and economic challenges.

Since our founding in 2005 by leaders in Silicon Valley and Boston, our organization has established itself as the leading force for accelerating clean technology entrepreneurs. Of the over 700 companies we have worked with in the United States alone, nearly half have gone on to raise external capital now totaling over $800 million.

CLEANENERGY.ORG - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

Sun, 2013-08-04 22:14 — Albert Gomez

http://www.cleanenergy.org/

Map Mashes Hurricane Information with Energy Infrastructure Data

Sat, 2013-07-27 17:13 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                                   (FOR THE INTERACTIVE MAP - CLICK ON MAP IMAGE BELOW)

      

emergencymgmt.com - by Sarah Rich - July 11, 2013

This year's hurricane season may prove a bit different for the energy sector, thanks to a newly updated interactive map, pictured (above), made available by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

What was an existing state map launched by the agency last September now includes more than 20 layers of GIS data to plot the nation’s energy infrastructure and resources. The data can be mashed up with real-time tropical storm and hurricane information from the National Hurricane Center, so resources like offshore production rigs, pipelines, coastal refineries power plants, and energy import and exports sites can be monitored as the severe weather occurs, according to the EIA.

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Florida Blasts Away Old Power Plant to Make Way for New

Mon, 2013-07-22 15:48 — admin

National Geographic Daily News - July 16, 2013 - Patrick J. Kiger

The Port Everglades power plant is demolished.

A series of explosions demolished the Port Everglades power plant Tuesday morning to make way for a new, cleaner natural gas plant.

Photograph by Lauralea Lasher, Your Shot

Port Everglades is just the latest fossil fuel relic to be torn down in a drive that is gaining momentum. Across the United States, utilities are shutting down and sometimes demolishing aging power-generating facilities, most of which burn coal. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, from 2012 to 2016, utilities expect to retire 175 plants that currently are capable of producing a combined 27 gigawatts of electricity. That amounts to 8.5 percent of the nation's total coal-fired capacity in 2011. (See related story: "As U.S. Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Its Coal Problems Abroad.")

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