Sentences with phrase «clean energy efforts»

Alicia Barton, President and CEO, NYSERDA, said, «I commend the Village of East Syracuse on this notable accomplishment and for driving local clean energy efforts in the Central New York Region that will help reduce energy costs and improve the environment.

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EnergyVision 2030 analyzes these questions by taking a comprehensive look at where efforts to expand clean energy resources can lead, how consumer adoption and market penetration rates can grow, and what increases in clean energy efforts are needed to attain state and regional emissions goals.

This analytical report calls for increasing energy access, energy efficiency, and clean energy efforts to meet the climate change challenge and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The North Kohala coast's Hawaii Island Retreat in Hawi was one of 13 businesses in Hawaii, and the only one on the Big Island, recently recognized with a 2014 Hawaii Green Business Award for «outstanding and innovative clean energy efforts.»

The coal companies and utilities are not alone in advertising: corporations from Shell to Sharp are advertising their clean energy efforts.

UL's clean energy efforts are not confined to solar, of course.

Not exact matches

March 9 (Reuters)- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday said he had formally asked for the state to be excluded from a federal offshore drilling program that he said would threaten its ocean resources and endanger efforts toward a cleaner energy economy.

Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealingEnergy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealingenergy standards rather than repealing them.

TORONTO, May 7, 2015 — Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) and MaRS Discovery District today announced a new partnership to strengthen efforts to grow Canada's clean technology and energy innovation sector.

Therefore greater efforts are needed by government and industry to embrace less polluting and more efficient technologies to ensure that coal becomes a much cleaner source of energy in the decades to come.

The Solar Now paddling centre installation was made possible through a collaborative effort between the City of Vancouver, the North Growth Foundation and Clean Energy Canada, along with support from community sponsors the Great Climate Race, Bullfrog Power and the Community Energy Association.

Here at home, the federal government's infrastructure investment plans should focus specifically on diversifying Canada's exports - aside from resource development and transport, investment in telecommunications, clean energy, and bio-tech infrastructure would be well worth the effort.

If every person devoted all efforts that we seem to throw at this pointless debate to enlighten someone else's mind, and focused on, let's see I du n no, a clean renewable source of energy!!

It will take effort and energy on your part and yes, you will have to clean up potty accidents.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

We will intensify efforts to meet each of our cities» current climate goals, push for new action to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius target, and work together to create a 21st century clean energy economy,» they wrote.

«The Green Jobs - Green NY program will build on the significant efforts our State has already taken to help put New Yorkers to work in the clean energy economy,» Governor Paterson said.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has chosen three new sites for solar panel installations in an effort to generate more clean energy in the Energy and Environmental Protection has chosen three new sites for solar panel installations in an effort to generate more clean energy in the energy in the state.

The Clean Energy Standard was part of an effort by state regulators to shift the state's reliance from fossil fuels to renewable energy over the next several deEnergy Standard was part of an effort by state regulators to shift the state's reliance from fossil fuels to renewable energy over the next several deenergy over the next several decades.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

For example, this Newsweek article provides an example of Trump promising to make a separate effort to roll back specific regulations regarding clean energy:

«I applaud NYPA's efforts to enhance and upgrade the three hydroelectric project visitor's centers in Western New York, Northern New York and the Northern Catskills,» said Senator John Ceretto, «Those who visit will now get a whole new understanding on how clean renewable energy plays an important role in New York State.

He's said he would work to create accessible waterfront areas in each neighborhood, and additionally supports efforts to reallocate city funds away from fossil fuel companies and instead towards renewable clean energy sources.

«Gov. Christie has in one wrong - headed decision decimated New Jersey's clean air and energy advocacy efforts,» said Assemblyman John McKeon, a Democrat who chairs the Assembly environment committee.

As part of these efforts, Riverkeeper has taken the position that Indian Point's power can and should be replaced with a portfolio of clean energy resources: renewable resources such as wind and solar and energy efficiency.

They say the state needs to «make a concerted effort to fully invest in clean tech, green energy production, retrofitting and infrastructure, which helps the environment, people and the economy.»

Lower Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Cap by 30 Percent Between 2020 and 2030 - Cuomo «has called upon RGGI states to join New York in an effort to continue to lead the fight against climate change and drive the nation's transition toward a clean energy economy.»

Key to that effort is a newly announced plan to train 10,000 employees to fill the thousands of clean energy jobs the state expects to be created here over the next few years.

«Now we'll redouble our effort to move toward a clean energy economy and more renewables in the future,» said Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

The Clean Energy Fund is part of an effort by the Cuomo administration to overhaul NYSERDA and the state's renewable energy and energy conservation programs, which are funded by a surcharge on utility bills — about $ 3.50 a month for the average gas and electric customer in the Capital REnergy Fund is part of an effort by the Cuomo administration to overhaul NYSERDA and the state's renewable energy and energy conservation programs, which are funded by a surcharge on utility bills — about $ 3.50 a month for the average gas and electric customer in the Capital Renergy and energy conservation programs, which are funded by a surcharge on utility bills — about $ 3.50 a month for the average gas and electric customer in the Capital Renergy conservation programs, which are funded by a surcharge on utility bills — about $ 3.50 a month for the average gas and electric customer in the Capital Region.

Given the uncertainty about the coming clean energy regulations, Cuomo's office recruited the state's other nuclear operator, Exelon Corp., in an effort to delay a decision on whether to shut down FitzPatrick or refuel it in September 2016.

In developing countries, clean energy technologies must be considered in conjunction with both economic development and poverty reduction efforts.

Climate Science • The new Republican House majority provides an opportunity to shape the science agenda for bipartisan efforts to reduce the nation's energy usage and to take steps towards a clean energy — based economy.

«As a senator, Clinton supported comprehensive climate change legislation and efforts to promote clean energy and energy efficiency.

Sanders is a prominent critic of efforts to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, while O'Malley has vowed to make a nationwide shift to renewable energy his top priority, with a full transition to clean - energy - powered generation by 2050.

The Republican budget, introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, would slash discretionary spending for energy programs by over 50 % next year, derailing efforts to increase energy efficiency and develop wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean energy sources.

Many of these efforts have sought industrial partnerships to accelerate technology diffusion and boost productivity, with a particular eye towards clean energy.

Along with the GE team that currently tests materials used to make solar panels, «there has been a lot of international investment and effort to develop China's clean energy education,» said Turner.

Indeed, a host of speakers regarded ARPA — E's effort as an Apollo project, a Manhattan project, and Mike Splinter, CEO of Applied Materials, even called for ARPA — E to be part of a potential Marshall Plan for energy — a road map to a future of clean power, complete with the Hoover Dam of solar, or the like.

This new Initiative will include a Joint Research Center operating in both the United States and India to foster innovation and joint efforts to accelerate deployment of clean energy technologies.

«We have an obligation to the world to deliver clean, reliable, low - cost energy that is hopefully low carbon, too,» adds chemical engineer David Rogers, general manager for climate change at Chevron, a California - based oil company that did not join efforts to suspend California's climate change initiative.

But almost no one is addressing the tension between the two: water restrictions are hampering solutions for generating more energy, and energy problems, particularly rising prices, are curtailing efforts to supply more clean water.

Further hindering clean coal efforts may be the attitudes of some folks in the energy business, like Don Blankenship, president and CEO of Massey Eenergy business, like Don Blankenship, president and CEO of Massey EnergyEnergy:

This month, China announced that it will cut exports this year of rare - earth elements by 40 %, which could ground fledgling efforts to build clean - energy industries in the United States and other Western countries.

Combined with Chinese export tariffs of 10 % to 25 %, the policy could ground fledgling efforts to build clean - energy industries in the United States and other Western countries.

In 2015, almost 200 nations agreed at a summit in Paris to limit global warming to «well below» 2C above pre-industrial times while pursuing efforts to hold the rise to 1.5 C as part of a sweeping shift away from fossil fuels towards clean energy.

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

The White House fact sheet also hints at new investments in clean energy and efforts to combat climate change, but provides no details.

At the end of January, experiments will begin with hydrogen in an effort to show that fusing hydrogen isotopes can be a viable source of clean and virtually limitless energy.