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SolarCity Plans Gigawatt Factory in New York
SolarCity, the largest residential solar installer in the U.S., plans to build a 1-gigawatt solar module factory in New York in the next two ... -
Water Conservation Could Help California Through This Year’s Drought [infographic]
The Pacific Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council have identified water efficiency improvements in California that could deliver 10.8 to 13.7 million acre-feet ... -
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U.S. Railways Resist New Oil Transport Safety Regulations
U.S. railways are pushing back against new White House rules that would boost safety for trains carrying explosive crude oil, including 30 mile per ... -
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Coal Regulation Battle Can Draw Lessons from War on Tobacco
In the looming conflict over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new carbon regulation, there may be lessons to be learned from an earlier battle ... -
Democrats See Carbon Plan as an Electoral Win
Pundits expected the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new carbon regulation to be a political liability for Democrats in tight Senate races this fall. But ... -
Methane Leakage Outweighs Any Climate Gain in U.S. LNG Exports
A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports may never deliver a net climate benefit—not if ... -
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U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards Raise Average Electricity Rates Less Than 2%
A review by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs) in 29 states ... -
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Leading U.S. Emitter, Kentucky, Inches Toward ‘Post-Coal Economy’
You wouldn’t know it from the political reaction that greeted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new carbon pollution rule last week. But the Times ... -
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‘Shockingly Easy’ Keystone XL Attack Could Cause Exxon Valdez-Size Spill
It would be “shockingly easy” for a small group of people to attack the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, cause an oil spill ... -
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Natural Gas and GHG Reductions: Not a Simple Calculation
Although the new power plant rules published Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) position natural gas as a transition fuel, the drive ... -
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Wisconsin Scenarios Envision Climate Change Impacts Through 2070
Elephants roaming a “newly-arid Wisconsin” and robotic farm workers are among the more fanciful scenarios emerging from a University of Wisconsin-Madison project, designed to ... -
Worried About Sea Level Rise? Just Abandon New York, Pundit Advises
If sea level rise is unstoppable, the easiest solution might be to abandon coastal cities like New York, Miami, and Boston, Marlo Lewis of ... -
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Landmark U.S. Power Plant Rule Ignores Methane in Natural Gas Fracking
The new carbon pollution standard released Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn’t account for methane released in natural gas fracking, according ... -
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State Autonomy Will Be a Win for Cleantech
The new EPA rule is the biggest thing to hit the energy sector in years, and “innovators in the clean tech economy should be ... -
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NRDC, Public Citizen Push for Tougher Standard
While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new greenhouse gas regulation is a good first step, “environmental activists are not overwhelmed with joy at the ...