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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Of Monsters and Zombies: NC Legislature Turning into Bad Horror Flick
By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 Among the scary legislation developing in the North Carolina assembly, there are two bills — one a monster of bad environmental reform and the other back from the dead in order to snuff…
TAGS: Coal Ash North Carolina Politics regulatory reform Renewable Energy Renewable Portfolio Standards
Renewable Energy Standard Targeted by N.C. Legislature
By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 Despite job creation directly linked to North Carolina’s burgeoning clean energy industry, the state’s modest renewable energy standard continues to be targeted by lawmakers. The “Affordable and Reliable Energy Act,” which narrowly passed…
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Teaming Up For Virginia Appalachian Voices’ Virginia campaign team partnered with Downstream Strategies to help in their research for a report that details how the coal industry is reaping huge benefits from the Commonwealth of Virginia each year. Released in…
TAGS: Appalachian Voices Coal coal ash ponds Downstream Strategies iLoveMountains Mountaintop Removal NC Conservation Network Renewable Portfolio Standards Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Southern Environmental Law Center Tennessee Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act Virginia
Vested Power: State-Level Legislative Agendas in 2013
By Brian Sewell, J.W. Randolph and Nathan Jenkins At the state level, the public often has greater access and input on decisions and the processes of their governments. But so do special interests — especially campaign funders and industries that…
TAGS: Air Pollution Appalachian politics Coal mining fracking Gov. Bill Haslam Gov. Bob McDonnell Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin Gov. Pat McCrory Gov. Steve Beshear Greg Stumbo Kentucky Mountaintop Removal NC Division of Air Quality NC Mining and Energy Commission North Carolina Renewable Portfolio Standards state environmental policy Tennessee Tennessee Wilderness Act uranium mining Virginia West Virginia
Duke CEO Could Be New Energy Guru || N.C. Round-Up
By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 Over the past few weeks there has been a spurt of environmental and energy news in North Carolina and its capital, Raleigh. The developing issues include departing Charlotte-based Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers…
TAGS: ALEC Duke Energy Energy Efficiency Environment Health Jim Rogers N.C. Politics North Carolina Pat McCrory Politics Renewable Energy Renewable Portfolio Standards Wind Power
Political winds shifting for renewable energy in Virginia?
Late last week, the U.S. Department of Interior announced plans to sell leases for the development of wind energy 27 miles off of Virginia’s shores and another lease block off of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. If constructed, these would be…
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