Monthly Archives: August 2013

Energy Efficiency’s Role in Growing Rural Economies

Over the summer we watched closely and shared our take on the importance of energy programs in the 2013 Farm Bill. You may remember that the Senate ultimately passed a version that included budget cuts but was in line with

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The Public’s Reaction to NC’s Proposed Settlement with Duke Energy: NNNNNO!

You can read The Charlotte Observer article, but the upshot is that the public strongly denounced the state’s proposed “do-nothing” settlement. Almost 5,000 people submitted comments, almost all saying that the settlement doesn’t go far enough to ensuring our water

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Of Loincloths and Lean-Tos: The Fight To Protect NC’s Water

Out of the many things that were targeted in the North Carolina legislature, water quality took a huge hit. Not only did the state budget call for the consolidation of the Division of Water Quality and Division of Water Resources,

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Investing in Efficiency, Wind and Solar Would Be Cheaper, Safer for Virginians than Dominion’s Plan, Report Finds // Clean Energy Coalition Launches Statewide Campaign

New Power for the Old Dominion Appalachian Voices and our partners in the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition have launched a statewide campaign for clean energy in Virginia. For immediate release Contact: David Schlissel, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial

Reform in the Wrong Direction – McCrory Signs HB 74 Into Law

Want to make a lot of people unhappy quickly? Just ask North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory how. Over the weekend, he signed the controversial Regulatory Reform Act (HB 74) into law. The 60-page bill, which McCrory calls “common sense legislation”

Raising the Standard

How State Laws Affect Our Clean Energy Future By Molly Moore Raising the Standard: State Laws and our Clean Energy Future Democratizing the Grid: Community-owned Renewable Energy Bio-energy Creates a Mass of Questions Beyond Renewable: The Cutting Edge in Energy

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Appalachia’s Environmental Vote Tracker: Aug/Sept 2013 issue

See how Appalachia’s congressional delegation voted on environmental issues.

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New Vision

By Matt Grimley The sun is beating down on a mid-July afternoon in Philippi, W.Va., but that doesn’t stop Ruston Seaman and the youth mentoring group from playing ultimate frisbee. Their shouts — “Take your time!” and “Go left! Go

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Democratizing the Grid

The Opportunities and Obstacles of Community-owned Renewable Energy By Brian Sewell When energy experts talk about distributed generation, they describe it as both a threat that will disrupt markets and erode utility profits and an opportunity that is changing the

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Appalachian State University Competes in European Solar Decathlon

By Chelsey Fisher After winning “People’s Choice” in the 2011 U.S. Solar Decathlon, Appalachian State University has been chosen to take their ideas across the ocean. ASU — one of three universities chosen from the United States — will pair

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