Clean Energy

Clean Energy Employs More People Than Fossil Fuels In Nearly Every U.S. State

March 29, 2017 Natasha Geiling, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Clean Energy, Fossil Fuels, Jobs

By Natasha Geiling for Think Progress - Nationally, clean energy jobs outnumber fossil fuel jobs by more than 2.5 to 1, according to a new Sierra Club analysis of Department of Energy jobs data. And when it comes to coal and gas — two sectors President Donald Trump has promised to bolster through his upcoming executive order on energy regulation — clean energy jobs outnumber jobs dealing with those two fossil fuels by 5 to 1. “Right now, clean energy jobs already overwhelm dirty fuels in nearly every state across America, and that growth is only going to continue as clean energy keeps getting more affordable and accessible by the day,” Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said in a statement.

Two More Cities Commit To Clean Energy, Total Now 23 Cities

February 18, 2017 Sierra Club, www.nationofchange.org Create! Clean Energy

By Sierra Club for Nation of Change - In Utah, Canyonlands National Park has been marred by haze pollution from two neighboring coal plants, which threatens the local Moab tourism industry – the economic lifeblood of the community. With this week’s announcements, both communities are poised to confront these threats by transitioning away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy. “The climate crisis is a global challenge, but many of our strongest leaders are at the local level,” Ken Berlin, CEO of The Climate Reality Project, said. “We have a lot of hard work ahead, but it is encouraging to see more and more communities, businesses and universities understand that renewable energy is not only the right moral choice, but also the right economic choice.”

Nicaragua Joins Clean Energy Revolution, Vows 90% Renewables By 2020

January 10, 2017 Cole Mellino, www.ecowatch.com Create! Clean Energy, Nicaragua, Renewable Energy

By Cole Mellino for Eco Watch - Nicaraguan officials have set goals of 75 percent renewable energy by 2017 and 90 percent by 2020, ProNicaragua reported. An International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) report from January 2015 found that “Nicaragua’s renewable energy sector has a bright future, both for utility-scale and small-scale projects, due to the country’s largely untapped renewable resources.” Javier Pentzke, manager of Amayo Wind Farm, told NPR his farm's location on the shores of Lake Nicaragua is one of the top places in the world for wind energy. "You have all the opening here from the lake all the way to the Caribbean, so it's like a tunnel," he said.

8 States That Made 2016 A Huge Year For Clean Energy

December 26, 2016 Jessica Collingsworth, www.nationofchange.org Educate! Clean Energy, Climate Change, Renewable Energy

By Jessica Collingsworth for Nation of Change - In August, the California legislature passed remarkable climate change legislation. SB 32 builds on Assembly Bill 32, the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 that required California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. SB 32 now sets the next target, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Another bill, AB 197 increases legislative oversight and transparency for the state’s climate change programs and emphasizes the state’s commitment to ensuring these policies help communities most impacted by climate change and air pollution.

Does Connecticut’s Green Bank Hold Secret To Future Of Clean Energy?

December 13, 2016 Jan Ellen Spiegel, www.insideclimatenews.org Create! Clean Energy, Connecticut

By Jan Ellen Spiegel for Inside Climate News - ROCKY HILL, Conn.—Bryan Garcia, president of the Connecticut Green Bank, said he knew five years ago when it was created that it would be an important model for funding clean energy projects. He didn't know it might become critical for funding them. In the face of a Donald Trump presidency that dismisses climate change and threatens to ignore its solutions, the future of clean energy may rely heavily on new approaches like the ones pioneered by the Connecticut Green Bank, the first-ever statewide one.

FERC Denies LNG Export Project, Again, In Oregon

December 13, 2016 Ted Gleichman, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Clean Energy, FERC, Oil and Gas

(Portland, OR) A massive natural gas export project aimed at the Oregon coast is on life support after the federal government ruled against it late Friday afternoon, December 9, 2016. The Jordan Cove Energy Project, a $7.6 billion terminal and pipeline plan to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Asia from Canada and the Rockies, was refused by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The first-ever rejection of federal permits for an LNG export project came in the wake of an 11-year coordinated grassroots campaign against this LNG terminal and pipeline in southern Oregon. “We’ve been fighting this project for more than a decade," said Ted Gleichman, a political advisor to the Center for Sustainable Economy.

America’s First All-Renewable-Energy City

November 20, 2016 Colin Woodard, www.politico.com Create! Burlington, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, VT

By Colin Woodard for Politico. Much of the rest of what Burlington’s 42,000 citizens need to keep the lights on comes from a combination of hydroelectric power drawn from a plant it built a half mile up the Winooski River, four wind turbines on nearby Georgia Mountain and a massive array of solar panels at the airport. Together these sources helped secure Burlington the distinction of being the country’s first city that draws 100 percent of its power from renewable sources. The net energy costs are cheap enough that the city has not had to raise electric rates for its customers in eight years. And Burlington is not done in its quest for energy conservation. Add in the city’s plan for an expansive bike path, a growing network of electric vehicle charging stations and an ambitious plan to pipe the McNeil station’s waste heat to warm downtown buildings and City Hall’s goal to be a net zero consumer of energy within 10 years starts looking achievable.

Renewable Revolutionary Railroad Renaissance

October 13, 2016 David Swanson, www.davidswanson.org Create! Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

By David Swanson for Let's Try Democracy - Here's the idea. There is huge potential for solar and wind energy in vast open spaces of the United States. There is a need for pathways through which to transmit renewable-produced electricity to where it's needed in big cities and small towns. Meanwhile, under-used railroad lines crisscross the country. As coal and oil use drop, those lines will be even more under-used, unless we change something. Yet, trains are more efficient than trucks even now, and would be much more so if electrified.

Corbyn: Toward A Green Industrial Revolution

September 14, 2016 Jeremy Corbyn, www.counterpunch.org Create! Clean Energy, Jeremy Corbyn, Solar Energy

By Jeremy Corbyn for Counter Punch - In 2015 the world came together to agree the landmark Paris Climate Agreement aimed at keeping global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. And just in time: we are facing a climate crisis. 2016 is set to be the hottest year on record and greenhouse gas emissions globally are still not falling. We are seeing the impacts of climate change much earlier than anyone predicted – around the world and at home.

Boulder Commits To 100% Clean Energy

September 6, 2016 Staff, www.ecowatch.com Create! Clean Energy, Colorado

By Staff of Sierra Club - Boulder, Colorado Mayor Suzanne Jones announced Wednesday that the city would commit to being powered by 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030. Boulder now represents the 17th city in the U.S. to commit to be powered by clean, renewable energy like wind and solar, and is the second city in Colorado to make a 100 percent clean energy commitment along with Aspen.

Ending Tax Dodging By Utilities Can Prompt Clean Energy Transition

August 15, 2016 Sharmini Peries, www.therealnews.com Create! Clean Energy, Public Utilities, Taxes

By Sharmini Peries for The Real News Network - We have all known that corporate tax evasion has reached epic proportions, robbing the public treasuries of the ability to address any serious problems we face, such as climate change, largely created by those corporations avoiding taxpaying. In fact, only a few major US corporations pay the required, statutory 35 percent tax rate to the public treasury. A new study done by the Institute for Policy Studies titled "Utilities Pay Up" digs into the gravity of the problem, and it also examines how ending tax subsidies to America's electric utility companies can help fund clean jobs and clean energy transition.

In Corporate March To Clean Energy, Utilities Not Required

August 9, 2016 Jan Ellen Spiegel, www.insideclimatenews.org Create! Clean Energy, March

By Jan Ellen Spiegel for Inside Climate News - A curious thing happened while U.S. utilities were focusing on cheap fracked gas, expensive nuclear power, what to do about coal, and how to fight renewable energy models that threatened their bottom line. Some of the nation's largest corporations decided not to wait for utilities and took their interest in renewable energy into their own hands. They bought their own clean power. And they bought it directly from the companies that produced it. No utility middleman needed.

Hundreds March To Stop The Trans-Pacific Partnership

July 24, 2016 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Clean Energy, Democrats, Fossil Fuels, TPP, Trade

By Margaret Flowers. Philadelphia, PA - Thousands of people marched in the March for a Clean Energy Revolution on the day prior to the Democratic National Convention. Popular Resistance and members of the Flush the TPP campaign created a bold, bright and spirited "Stop the TPP" contingent to raise awareness of the threats posed by the TPP, put the Democrats on notice that the people oppose rigged corporate deals and to recruit more people to join the No Lame Duck Uprising. The TPP is a large international treaty that was negotiated over the past 7 years by the Obama administration. It was negotiated in secret with the help of hundreds of 'corporate advisers' from companies like Walmart, Monsanto, Pfizer, Exxon and more. Members of Congress were largely left out of the process.

What Does ‘Clean Energy Access For All’ Mean?

July 23, 2016 Rachel Cleetus, www.blog.ucsusa.org Create! Clean Energy, Extreme weather

By Rachel Cleetus for UCSUSA - Yesterday the White House announced a series of actions to help advance clean energy access for all Americans. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service warned of a major heat wave across much of the country this week and NOAA released data showing that June set another global temperature record. All of which is a good reminder that there’s lots we can and must do to address climate change, and we’ve got to keep equity at the heart of our solutions.

53 Arrested Protesting Gas Storage Near Seneca Lake

July 20, 2016 Sandra Steingraber, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Clean Energy, Seneca Lake

By Sandra Steingraber for Eco Watch - "We are ALL Seneca Lake" was the message delivered this morning by prominent environmental leaders Wes Gillingham, program director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, David Braun, co-founder of Americans Against Fracking, and Rachel Marco-Havens, youth engagement director of Earth Guardians during a protest at Stagecoach (formerly Crestwood) gas storage complex along Route 14 in the Town of Reading. The three joined 50 others at a civil disobedience action against gas storage in Seneca Lake salt caverns that highlighted our interconnectedness in the struggle

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