Homebuilders moving beyond Energy Star; Illinois gets its first net-zero...
Ever thought about building a very energy-efficient custom home? What if this home would be one of the greenest homes of its kind in the country?Weiss Building & Development LLC and Tom Bassett...
View ArticleWith lower filibuster threshold, new Obama appointees on D.C. Circuit Court...
The U. S. Senate’s confirmation Tuesday of Patricia Millett to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, along with two other confirmations to that court expected by year’s end, increase the odds that...
View ArticleActions speaking louder than advocacy: Microsoft programming for profit with...
The number of companies taking tangible steps to prepare for and prosper in a lower-carbon economy is growing — even absent a national carbon tax or cap-and-trade regime. Their actions speak much...
View ArticleHow About a Wiki for Clean Energy to Share Best Practices for Improving...
There is no shortage of ideas on how businesses, governments and households in the U.S. and other industrialized countries can become more energy efficient; same applies on how to grow cleaner supplies...
View ArticleEPA’s 111(d) draft carbon rules for existing power plants could set the stage...
For all of the fiscal and environmental logic that supports the case for a carbon tax in the U.S., the politics keep getting in the way. Besides the opposition from most elected conservatives, two...
View ArticleHow to jump-start renewable energy in Virginia
Cleaner energy policies and markets are flourishing globally and throughout much of the U.S. but not in the Commonwealth of Virginia. So stakeholders there have mapped a plan to catch up.More than 60...
View ArticleRisks of utility coal ash pit accidents growing despite new rule starting...
If someone were to tell you that neither a state nor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ever established regulations for disposing of coal ash waste by utilities, would you believe...
View ArticleSmart Utilities Know There Are Responsible Solutions for Their Coal Ash Waste
For a President who likes to champion cleaner, safer and cost effective energy and environmental solutions, it caught some by surprise when Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency punted on...
View ArticleSoutheast Energy News is now capturing the region’s top energy headlines and...
A project of Midwest Energy News with funding from the MacArthur Foundation and technical support from the Investigative News Network, Southeast Energy News is an effort to build a standalone news...
View ArticleFAST FIX: Where each state stands on the Clean Power Plan – maps
Although it was finalized in August, the Clean Power Plan is about to be formally published in the Federal Register. That’s an important milestone because states that oppose President Obama’s signature...
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