In an essay for The Daily Beast last week, Somerhalder talks about the impact of dirty energy
money on clean energy policy, and makes a plea to voters to choose candidates who will protect the environment.
We don't want to harm productivity, growth, jobs or competitiveness by spending
money on clean energy or emissions reductions.
Not exact matches
While the
money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility
on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.
The main reasons the business community should stand
on the side of
clean energy innovation are that it will, in the long run, save companies
money, provide better
energy security, reduce healthcare costs, and reduce costs associated with having to adapt to a warmer climate.
That amount of construction is «astounding» and represents almost double the amount of
money spent
on agriculture, fishing and forestry combined, said Merran Smith, executive director of
Clean Energy Canada.
On the environmental end, Food & Water Watch knocked the state subsidization of nuclear power, saying the
money should be going toward further investment in
clean energy.
For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable
energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear p
energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's
Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear p
Energy Standard, casting further doubt
on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for
money - losing upstate nuclear plants.
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The RiverBend project calls for $ 225 million in state
money to build the first of six buildings
on a brownfield site that Cuomo administration officials believe will become the center of some of the nation's leading
clean and green
energy research.
«Under the guise of «
clean energy,» the nuclear industry is about to get its hands
on our
money in order to save its own profits,» claimed Jessica Azulay, program director for New York - based Alliance for a Green Economy.
In Tuesday's post I talked about the biggest mistake I see a lot of people make with their diet, which is basically that they're not eating «real food», but instead consume mostly evolutionarily novel foods and spend their
money on supplements, shakes, «Paleo» bars, protein powders,
cleanses,
energy bars, and other food items that are typically marketed as quick and simple solutions that will make you healthier, slimmer, and / or more energetic.
Under the command of the available 3.6 L V6 engine, drivers can enjoy an EPA - estimated fuel economy of up to 28 highway MPG
on gas before seamlessly transitioning to hybrid power and the incredible longevity of up to 80e MPG, saving time,
money and
energy all while embracing
cleaner technology.
More
money is being poured into secutity than research
on Aids /
Clean Energy / Cancer / dangerous viruses etc..
Use that same
money instead to invest in wind farms and other
clean energy sources, and reduce our down -
on - our - knees dependence
on:
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on Residential Solar Power: Residential Solar Power Without Buying the Panels: Helio Green
Energy Plan Solar City Offering No
Money Down, Residential Solar Panel Leases In California Green Power for Your Home Gets a Little More Affordable, in New Jersey Solar Power System Rental Model Brings
Clean Power to Lao Villages
Guess it pays to be the biggest oil company in the world — even though their profits are at the lowest they've been in six years, Exxon still managed to spend more
money on lobbying efforts for the climate bill than the entire
clean energy industry combined.
Fair treatment would require more focus
on groups like ELPC and Sierra Club, which have taken
money from natural gas companies while fighting nuclear
energy, America's largest source of
clean, low carbon power.
Solar has become a mainstream technology that Massachusetts residents, businesses, and institutions can own and operate; a technology that produces local
clean energy, saves
money, and lightens the electric burden
on the utility grid while reducing the use of fossil fuels» said William Stillinger, President of SEBANE.
But the COP is also a moment in time — a chance for the wider climate community to reflect
on progress towards a
clean energy transition, to challenge the terms of the debate, and to put forward ideas,
money and commitments to action.
These programs help all of us — including residents, businesses, cities, towns and State government — to save
money on our
energy bills, reduce our carbon footprint and add to the 15,000
clean energy jobs in our economy.
Lord Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics and member of the Apollo group, said it was barely believable that the world only spent 2 % of its R&D
money on its «most pressing problem» of climate change and
clean energy.
Instead of putting constraints
on poor countries that will hold back their ability to fight poverty, we should be investing dramatically more
money in R&D to make fossil fuels
cleaner and make
clean energy cheaper than any fossil fuel.
«While Americans have rallied in support of
clean renewable
energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout
money to fossil fuel companies to work
on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.
«We find that ARPA - E-funded firms,
on average, raise more
money than other
clean energy startups,» the authors said.
«Installing solar without batteries is leaving
money on the table,» says Lewis Milford, president of the
Clean Energy Group and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
«A group of financial experts has set out its vision for hardwiring sustainability goals into the European Union's financial system, calling
on the 28 - country bloc to stop pouring public
money into polluting fossil fuels and focus spending
on clean energies instead.
Community solar participants purchase individual panels or the electricity they generate and receive monthly credits
on their utility bills, saving them
money and extending the benefits of
clean energy to all New Yorkers.
Numerous studies show that by leading
on clean energy innovation states can save residents and businesses
money, keep more
energy dollars in the region, grow the workforce, and secure a healthier future.
This includes projects that provide safe drinking water to communities, so they no longer have to boil water, the provision of
clean energy to rural communities, support for sustainable agriculture that improves yields and incomes or more efficient cookstoves that save families
money on fuel bills and reduce their exposure to toxic fumes.
We don't pad the number with estimates of all the other jobs that may be created throughout the economy because of the
money spent by the actual people hired to work
on clean energy.
The project will feed solar
energy to the grid operated by National Grid and will allow schools and municipalities in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence Counties to participate in this local
clean power generation and save
money on their electricity bills.
Cleantech investment booms, but
energy tech bubble looms Cleantech investment booms, but
energy tech bubble looms mongabay.com April 30, 2007 Investors are pouring
money into
clean technology, with spending
on...
The result is that most models fail to calculate the myriad benefits that come from investments in technology and tend to cast the transition to
clean energy in zero - sum terms: Either we spend more
on energy or we spend more
money on preventing malaria and hunger.
-- In their recent report, Banking
on Green, American Rivers explained the many benefits of using green roofs and other techniques like rain gardens and green streets to save
money, reduce
energy use and flooding, and keep people healthy and water
clean.
Or instead of spending their
money on nonlocal sources in Pennsylvania or Alberta, they could collect the
clean, free, abundant
energy flying right overhead, ready to pay for mortgages and college tuitions.
ALEC's
Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force — which has also been funded by Koch
money — will lead two workshops
on the
Clean Power Plan: «Key Changes in the Final Rule and How State Legislatures Can Protect States» and «Avoiding Premature Implementations: MATS, the
Clean Power Plan and Utilities.»
Meanwhile, in the prior administration,
money was actually cut off to efforts to develop
clean, efficient technology that gets its
energy elsewhere than burning fossil fuels, and it was a major setback, while we in fact subsidized efforts TO rely
on burning fossil fuels.
While the EPA projects new investments in
energy efficiency under the
Clean Power Plan will ultimately generate savings
on electricity bills for consumers, a report by NERA Economic Consulting ignores
energy efficiency's proven ability to save consumers
money and artificially inflates the costs of the EPA's proposal.
The Halfmoon Community Solar Project will feed solar
energy to the grid operated by New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG) and will allow more than 100 residential customers in NYSEG's Capital Region territory (parts of Columbia, Essex, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Washington counties), including low - income residents, to participate in local
clean power generation and save
money on their electricity bills.
The idea that investing heavily in
clean energy and
energy efficiency programs will save households
money may be surprising to some, but in the third and final brief in the series, released today, Synapse discusses the logic behind why this is the case and why — if it's so appealing — states haven't already embarked
on similar trajectories.
Image: Screen grab of Google website Google Crunches the Numbers
on Energy Google is a company that tends to put its money where its mouth is: They invested around half a billion dollars in various clean energy projects, some at the comm
Energy Google is a company that tends to put its
money where its mouth is: They invested around half a billion dollars in various
clean energy projects, some at the comm
energy projects, some at the commercial
Green IT companies are saying, «Economy Eschonomy» because everyone seems to be catching
on that the way to save
money is
cleaning up their act in the IT department and saving loads of
money on energy.
That kind of
money buys a lot of misinformation, and the organizations spending that cash are aiming to roll back
clean energy solutions like vehicle fuel efficiency standards, pollution controls
on power plants, and wind and solar innovation.
Clothes washers and dryers that have earned the
ENERGY STAR deliver superior efficiency and performance by incorporating advanced features that make cleaning and drying easier and more effective while saving money on your energy
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energy energy bills.
with all the
money being spent
on the perfection of
clean coal (which i think is the silliest solution for
energy yet, pffft, putting it underground is just hiding it and will most likely affect the techtonic plates with the pressure of the gas and the digging down) it could be invested into alternative
energy sources.
«New Report Follows
Money Trail Behind Attacks
on Clean Energy Main Tar Sands Oil: Protest in Vermont, Spills in Wisconsin»
What they need is a way to produce green
energy for a polluted province and planet and farmers who've been scratching out a living
on notoriously poorly irrigated land for decades can finally make a little
money by leasing out land
on which the
clean energy machines will operate.
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For homes that do not currently have access to natural gas, propane can be another option that burns
cleaner than oil; however, because it is a more expensive fuel source (cost per million BTU) than both gas and oil, saving
money on your
energy bill is not generally a motivation for making the switch to propane.