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This media teleconference discusses the upcoming decision before FL PSC to
approve over $200 million in early cost recovery for both Progress and FPL's
push to build new reactors in FL. This pre-payment scheme poses serious
risks for their customers. Economist Dr. Mark Cooper and experienced nuclear
engineer Mr. Arnie Gundersen, who serve as expert witnesses for SACE, along
with SACE's executive director, Stephen Smith, discuss these risks and
answer questions from reporters.
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For the August's webinar in SACE's monthly webinar series, we will
explain the problem, proposal and process of EPA’s coal ash regulation.
Following the disastrous 2008 coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley
Authority’s Kingston plant, the nation awoke to the dangers of this
toxic sludge, consisting of the waste left behind after coal is burned
to produce energy. This ash contains arsenic, mercury, lead, chromium,
and a number of other toxic chemicals, and its generation, storage,
transportation, and disposal are unregulated. The Environmental
Protection Agency has taken a first step towards finally regulating
this mess, but they have done so very unusually, by co-proposing two
very different methods of regulation. In this webinar we will explain
the details and differences between EPA’s two proposals, the process
for making a decision, and how you can get involved.
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This media teleconference discusses Southern Alliance for Clean Energy's lawsuit against the Department of Energy for violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in regards to the $8.3 billion loan guarantee awarded to the proposed two nuclear reactors at Southern Company's Plant Vogtle in Georgia. SACE executive director Stephen Smith, acting director Larry Sanders with the Turner Environmental Law Clinic of Emory University's School of Law, and Steve Ellis vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense participated in the teleconference .
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For far too long, the United States has lacked a true vision to
modernize to a clean energy economy. Oceana Vision 2020 aims to
eliminate the need for offshore oil drilling and oil imports from the
Persian Gulf by cutting oil consumption in residential and commercial
heating, power plant generation, shipping, and light duty vehicles and
offsetting oil with advanced biofuels and offshore wind energy. Using
public and private partnerships like loan guarantees, tax credits,
research and development and a host of other initiatives, Oceana’s
ultimate vision of eliminating offshore oil drilling and all oil
imports would save the American consumer some $374 billion by 2035.
With this vision, some 74% of oil consumption will be curtailed,
consumers will save money, more jobs will be created and the worst
effects of climate change and ocean acidification can be averted.
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The National Energy Independence Plan (NEIP) ends the need for oil
imports within 15 years, eliminates 86% of carbon-based (fossil) fuels
before mid-century, and averts oil pricing crises likely to occur
within 20 years. It meets all of the Gulf Challenge's criteria and can
be initiated immediately, using proven technology. It delivers
reliable, clean, domestically-sourced energy to achieve strategic
energy security, jobs at home, and an improved climate. The NEIP is
expandable, long-lasting, and affordable (self-funding from energy
sales, yet fuel prices remain no higher than current levels
nationwide). A federal agency is proposed to manage the process; a
public utility model assures public and private interests are aligned.
These goals are achieved in two overlapping phases. Ending oil imports
quickly is accomplished by electrifying the US light vehicle fleet,
reducing the use of oil for heating, and temporary coal gasification
(until biomass is grown) to assure the liquid fuel supply. To meet
long term needs, electricity generation is comprehensively replaced by
solar and wind power, efficiently transmitted over a new direct-current
grid. CAES, compressed air energy storage, enables intermittent wind
and solar energy to provide steady, reliable 24/7 base load power to
replace coal and natural gas.
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The Prometheus Plan (“Plan”) saves 5 million barrels of oil a day (MBD) in 10 years by: increasing new light-duty vehicle fuel efficiency to 40 mpg; making efficiency improvements to heavy-duty trucks, tires and motor oils; and accelerating the use of biofuels. Based on Annual Energy Outlook 2010 projections, the Plan will reduce 2020 U.S. oil consumption of 21 MBD by 24% ─ a savings equal to all Persian Gulf oil imports (1.4 MBD) and U.S. offshore oil production (2.1 MBD) with a surplus (1.5 MBD).
The Plan meets the Gulf Challenge in 10 years as follows:
- Technological Capability/Policy – utilizes only proven technologies that can significantly impact oil savings (minimum 0.1 MBD) through sound energy policies.
- Environmental Sustainability – accelerates renewable fuel efficiencies and biofuels in transportation sector, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.
- Timing and Cost – phased oil saving goals are achievable at cost of $180 billion, which at $75/barrel will save U.S. over $200 billion net annually.
- Public/Private Investment Strategy – Plan funded through a five-year 20% Excess Profits Tax on major oil companies’ $1 trillion in net cash flow.
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Toni Reale, Coastal Program Coordinator speaks about Hands Across the Sand on U Need to Know It.
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On June 3rd, 2010, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy in partnership with ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability hosted their third webinar in their monthly webinar series focused on all issues surrounding coastal climate adaptation in the Southeast U.S. In this webinar, Dr. Ken Lindeman (Florida Institute of Technology) and Dr. Benjamin Horton (Univ. of Pennsylvania) discussed the latest sea level rise science as well as local attributes of sea level rise adaptation in several Caribbean countries.
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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) continues its webinar series with a presentation on the Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) new report: Burning Coal, Burning Cash. Our webinars are your opportunity to directly engage with SACE staff to learn about emerging clean energy technologies, opportunities and issues that SACE engages in everyday. SACE is excited to use this technology as a way to connect with our members and share the most up-to-date advances in the clean energy field.
For the May webinar in SACE's monthly webinar series, SACE staff and UCS experts will introduce you to the new UCS report, “Burning Coal, Burning Cash”, which highlights the U.S.’s dependence on imported coal. The report spotlights how much money each state spends to import coal from outside its borders (mainly from other states but also internationally), and thus exports energy dollars from its local economy. UCS identifies the top 10 states for each of six different measures of coal-import dependence, including (1) the most spent on total imports; (2) the greatest quantity of imports; (3) the highest import costs per capita; (4) the highest import costs per gross state product; (5) the highest import costs as a share of electricity consumed, and (6) the most spent on international coal imports.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists’ latest national report spotlights how much money each state spends to import coal from outside its borders (mainly from other states but also internationally), and thus exports energy dollars from its local economy. The top 10 coal-dependent states are identified based on six different measures of coal-import dependence, including (1) the most spent on total imports; (2) the greatest quantity of imports; (3) the highest import costs per capita; (4) the highest import costs per gross state product; and (5) the highest import costs as a share of electricity consumed. Tennessee ranks in the top 10 in five of these six measures!
The report also reveals that TVA spends nearly $2 billion per year on coal expenditures, effectively taking this money out of the Tennessee's local economies. On the flip side, the report discusses why it would be better to keep those dollars in-state by investing in energy efficiency and local renewable energy.
In addition, the report will be accompanied by a two-page Tennessee factsheet, showing what we spend on coal and where it's from, and presenting some choice information about how our coal expenditures compare with our energy efficiency expenditures. A four-page executive summary will also be available, presenting all the rankings.
The findings of this report and the supplemental materials should prove valuable to education and outreach efforts on both state and federal policies for renewables, efficiency, climate-change mitigation, clean air, and clean water.
Robert Cowin serves as the Legislative Representative for Clean Energy with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Robert represents UCS on Capital Hill on issues of coal and coal with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), nuclear energy and nuclear safety and security. Prior to joining UCS, Robert spent several years working for the National Environmental Trust (now Pew Environmental Group) as an advocate on clean air issues, climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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In mid-May, The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy worked with The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) on the release of their latest report titled "Burning Coal, Burning Cash".
In this webinar, Steve Clemmer, UCS expert, discusses this report that spotlights how much money states (specifically Florida) spend to import coal from outside its borders (mainly from other states but also internationally), and thus exports energy dollars from its local economy.
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As the Gulf oil disaster unfolds, Our Southern Community radio program hosts the first of a two part show exploring the impacts on our environment, energy policy and economics. Jennifer Rennicks, Federal Policy Director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Cecil Bothwell, environmental advocate and Asheville City Councilman, join host Ned Ryan Doyle for an overview of the damages to date and potential future damages.
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As the Gulf oil disaster unfolds, Our Southern Community radio program hosts the first of a two part show exploring the impacts on our environment, energy policy and economics. Jennifer Rennicks, Federal Policy Director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Cecil Bothwell, environmental advocate and Asheville City Councilman, join host Ned Ryan Doyle for an overview of the damages to date and potential future damages.
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During this webinar, Ulla Reeves, Regional Program Director with Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Missy Stults, Adaptation Manager with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, discuss what sustainable adaptation means, the challenging issues surrounding it, and present arguments for why mitigation is a key component of sustainable adaptation and a strategic direction for cities and communities.
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This media teleconference discussed a report by a nuclear engineer and former nuclear utility VP that identifies potential flaws in Westinghouse’s new reactor design, the AP1000. National and regional environmental organizations called upon U.S. nuclear regulators to launch an investigation into newly identified flaws in Westinghouse’s new reactor design. The coalition also asked three federal agencies to suspend the AP1000 reactor from licensing and taxpayer loan consideration.
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On April 16th, 2010 the Florida Business Network for a Clean Energy Economy sponsored "Global Warming Mythbusters: a Webinar on Science Fact and Science Fiction". This webinar featured IPCC author Dr. Brian Soden, professor of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami and Dr. Jude Grosser of the University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center. Due to the size of the podcast file, this webinar is divided into two parts.
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PART 2: On April 16th, 2010 the Florida Business Network for a Clean Energy
Economy sponsored "Global Warming Mythbusters: a Webinar on Science Fact
and Science Fiction". This webinar featured IPCC author Dr. Brian
Soden, professor of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University
of Miami and Dr. Jude Grosser of the University of Florida Citrus
Research and Education Center. Due to the size of the podcast file,
this webinar is divided into two parts.
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In this webinar, Florida Climate Alliance Members George Cavros and Susan Glickman led a discussion of the economic, ratepayer, and environmental benefits of renewable energy as well as policies that leading states are using to drive investment in clean energy. Additionally they provided an overview of opportunities before the Florida Legislature this session to create a renewable energy future, end the debate on opening up Florida's coasts to drilling, and how to get meaningful legislation passed this session!
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As interest in nuclear power revives, plant developers are thinking
small. They're working on modular reactors as small as a house. They
could be built for a fraction of the cost of current large-scale ones.
But what about safety and other concerns? Host Guy Raz looks into the
mini-nuclear boom.
Audio originated from All Things Considered on NPR and reposted by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
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On February 25th, 2010, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy in
partnership with ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability hosted their second webinar in their
monthly webinar series focused on all issues surrounding coastal
climate adaptation in the Southeast U.S. In this webinar, Harvey Ruvin, Chair of the Miami-Dade Climate Change Advisory Task Force, provides an overview of how Miami-Dade County turned the stark reality posed by global warming into an action plan to prepare for the changes ahead.
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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) continues its webinar series with a presentation on
The Building Blocks to Responsible Wind Energy Development. For the
February webinar in SACE's monthly webinar series, the webinar will
provide an introduction and overview to how a wind project is
responsibly developed, from start to finish. The information will
touch base on regional case studies and focus on potential Southeast
wind markets. While each wind project will have its own challenges,
this webinar is intended to provide participants with an understanding
of how a wind project is built, and what steps must be taken in order
to see more responsibly sited wind projects within our region.
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With the new White House budget released earlier this week calling for a tripling of taxpayer-backed loan guarantee bailouts for new nuclear reactors, four grassroots experts from around the U.S. in a media teleconference caution that none of the four “leading” reactor projects in the running are attractive candidates.
In addition to providing an insight into the problems with the President’s budget proposal, during the teleconference the four experts provided an important perspective that will not be heard when the U.S. Senate Energy Committee meets on the DOE’s Loan Guarantee Program next week.
News event speakers and the loan guarantee candidate about which they will speak were:
- Sara Barczak, director, High Risk Program, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, addressing the proposed Vogtle reactors in Georgia;
- Karen Hadden, executive director, Austin-based Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, addressing the embattled NRG reactor project in San Antonio;
- Tom Clements, Friends of the Earth, addressing the VC Summer reactors in South Carolina; and
- Michael Mariotte, executive director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, addressing the proposed Calvert Cliffs reactor in Maryland.
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On January 28th, 2010, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy in partnership with ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability launched a monthly webinar series focused on all issues surrounding coastal climate adaptation in the Southeast U.S. In this webinar, Dr. Lynne Carter from LSU provides an overview of what adaptation means for coastal communities, what issues they will face and what decision-makers and stakeholders must consider.
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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) continues its webinar series with a presentation on Recent Developments in the Southeastern Solar Industry.
For the January webinar in SACE\'s monthly webinar series, the
webinar will give an update of major announcements and activities in
solar energy in the southeast; including manufacturing in the solar
supply chain, incentives for both manufacturing and installing solar
equipment, federal stimulus activities and highlights of some of the
larger solar deployments in the Southeast. While there is too much
happening in solar energy to include in one webinar we hope to provide
our members with a good overall understanding of market trends in our
region.
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1 Year Later: TVA Still Cleaning UP Coal Ash Spill
by Daniel Potter
It was just before Christmas last year when a massive coal ash
retention pond gave way near Kingston, Tenn. An estimated one billion
gallons of the gray material spilled into a river and inundated acres
of sparsely-populated land. One year later, clean-up is going slower
than expected and it's more expensive too.
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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) continues its webinar
series with a presentation: Update from Copenhagen: Is a Global Climate Solution in the Works?
Stephen A. Smith, Executive Director, and Jennifer Rennicks, Federal
Policy Director, provide real time updates from the middle of the action at this momentous
2009 Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen.
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Jennifer Rennicks, Federal Policy Director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, discusses the background and issues of energy policy and climate change at Copenhagen's UN International Climate Conference.
Attending the ICC, along with Dr. Stephen Smith, SACE Director, and other staff, Jennifer outlines both positive and negative outcomes for the Southeast impacting agriculture, energy, economics and climate.
Follow live blogs, twitter, webinars and more of the historic ICC meeting from www.cleanenergy.org. Part One, Original Air Date 12-13-09.
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Jennifer Rennicks, Federal Policy Director for the Southern Alliance
for Clean Energy, discusses the background and issues of energy policy
and climate change at Copenhagen's UN International Climate Conference.
Attending the ICC, along with Dr. Stephen Smith, SACE Director, and
other staff, Jennifer outlines both positive and negative outcomes for
the Southeast impacting agriculture, energy, economics and climate.
Follow live blogs, twitter, webinars and more of the historic ICC meeting from www.cleanenergy.org. Part Two, Original Air Date 12-13-09.
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For Southern Alliance for Clean Energy's (SACE) November webinar, Toni Reale, the Coastal Program Coordinator for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, will dispel the myths surrounding the benefits of drilling our Southeastern Coasts. Susan Glickman who works with NRDC and SACE co-hosts. She highlights the dirty politics surrounding drilling in Florida and its implications for the rest of our region.
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Jennifer Rennicks, SACE’s federal policy director, talks with You Need To Know host, Frank Knapp, on the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen, an upcoming event in SC with Department of Energy's Sec. Chu and Sen. Graham (R-SC) as well as a recently released report on energy efficiency in SC.
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Article originally from WMNF 88.5 FM Community Radio and reposted by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
On the heels of a summer of record breaking highs – and amid an ongoing recession, cutting energy costs is on the minds of many consumers. The Florida Public Service Commission was asked to come up with energy conservation goals for the state’s seven major utility providers. Yesterday, the commission sent its staff back to the drawing board, citing that the goals were weak. Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Attorney George Cavros says the goals were not anywhere near where they should be.
Commissioners Nathan Skop and Nancy Argenziano told staff to come up with a list of goals that included a greater number of incentives for consumers to curb their energy use. Cavros says that reducing excessive energy consumption goes beyond installing compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Many states have effectively implemented energy conservation measures Cavros says, to the point where they have the ability to meet one percent of their energy demands through energy efficiency. So far, he says, Florida has been severely lagging.
Utility companies do not support the measures and claim that they would end up costing more. But Cavros says that while reduced energy usage may initially cause a utility to raise its rates the claim is driven by the utility industry\'s desire to protect its own bottom line.
Cavros says he applauds the Public Service Commission’s initiative, which has in the past tended to side with the utilities.
Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Brandi Colander says that the commission’s desire for more rigorous efficiency measures could make Florida a key example for energy and efficiency.
The revised energy conservation goals are due to the commission by December 1st. Public Service Commissioners did not return requests for comment before air time.
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October 21st, 2009. A diverse coalition of business owners, decision makers, and academics from coastal North Carolina traveled to our nation’s capitol to carry a message of urgency to act on climate change to Senator Hagan, Senator Burr and Congressional leaders representing the North Carolina coast. Listen to the live tele-press conference from DC to hear concerns from coastal business leaders, decision makers, and experts about the impacts of climate change and the opportunities for jobs and new industries.
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Listen to experts Peter Bradford, Henry Sokolski, Dr. Ed Lyman, and Sara Barczak deliver a stern warning during a SACE-hosted news conference on October 22, 2009 urging the Department of Energy (DOE) to halt controversial plans to issue nuclear loan guarantees. These guarantees are part of the DOE’s Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program. Two of the four new nuclear projects that the DOE is reported to be considering for taxpayer-backed loan guarantees are AP-1000 designs proposed by the Southern Company at the Vogtle site in Georgia and the South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) V.C. Summer site. Learn how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s recent objection to major problems in the AP-1000 reactor design call into serious question the future of over half of proposed new reactors in the United States.
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Listen to the SACE-hosted phone-based news conference from October 14, 2009 where SACE staffer Sara Barczak along with experts Mark Cooper and Peter Bradford discussed why the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) should reject its staff recommendations that would allow FPL and Progress Energy to charge their customers in advance to pay for building unlicensed nuclear reactors.
Mark Cooper, senior fellow for economic analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School presented a new Florida-specific analysis showing that Progress and FPL are “betting the farm” on new reactors by gambling on overpriced, excess capacity that could turn out to be an economic disaster for the companies and the Florida ratepayers who would be left holding the bag. Cooper provided testimony for SACE during the PSC proceedings on the new reactors.
Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) member Peter Bradford, an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School also participated. He served as chair of the New York and Maine utility commissions, and advised many states on utility restructuring issues. Bradford also testified in the early cost recovery case before the FL PSC for one of Progress Energy’s largest industrial users.
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The FL PSC is set to vote October 16, 2009 on whether to approve Progress and FPL's request to charge FL consumers in advance for their plans to build four new nuclear reactors in Florida. Listen here to learn how to take action.
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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) continues its webinar series with a presentation on Building Support for National Climate Policy & Opportunities for the Southeast. Our webinars are your opportunity to directly engage with staff experts and learn about emerging clean energy technologies, opportunities, and issues that we engage in everyday. SACE is excited to use this technology as a way to connect with our members and share the most up-to-date advances in the clean energy field. Jennifer Rennicks, Federal Policy Director for SACE presents.
As the U.S. prepares to re-engage in international climate change talks, our elected leaders are in Washington debating whether and how to adopt national climate and energy legislation. Our region has abundant, available sources of renewable energy and stands to benefit tremendously if progressive climate and energy policies are implemented soon.
Listen to this webinar presentation to learn about the options and
opportunities that await the Southeast through climate policy and how
to get involved to urge support for a clean energy future.
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Duke Energy is asking the NC Utilities Commission to charge ratepayers nearly 2 billion dollars to complete the coal burning Cliffside project. The first of several rate increase proposals range from 18% to 20% of current charges. Ulla Reeves, Regional Program Director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy; Julie Mayfield, Executive Director of the WNC Alliance; Dr. Richard Fireman Public Policy Coordinator for InterFaith Power & Light and Mike Cherin, organizer for the Energy Action Coalition join host Ned Ryan Doyle for a panel discussion of why the Cliffside coal burning project is not needed and is a poor investment for ratepayers, citizens and the environment.
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Sara Barczak and Stephen Smith talk with Emily and Vicki of "Truly Sustainable Sarasota". Live from Florida's PSC hearings, Sara and Stephen discuss the request made by Florida's two largest utility companies to pass on to consumers
more than half a billion dollar cost associated with the planned
construction of four new nuclear reactors.
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For the August webinar in SACE's monthly webinar series, Mary Carr, Renewable Energy Coordinator, and Ulla Reeves, Regional Program Director, discuss recent developments and updates on Southeastern coal plant proposals.
This webinar covers the latest on the four coal plants that are currently under review in the Southeast: Cliffside Power Plant in Rutherford County,NC, Pee Dee Coal Plant in Florence County, SC, Plant Washington in Washington County, GA, and Seminole Power Plant in Putnam County, FL.
Listen for updates regarding coal plant permitting, legal challenges, advocacy, and what you can do to help challenge the construction of these dirty coal fired power plants.
The presenters also give an overview of how the current proposed Federal Climate Legislation will affect the development of new coal plants in the Southeast.
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For the July 2009 webinar in SACE's monthly webinar series, we were pleased to have Michele Boyd, Director of the Safe Energy Program with Physicians for Social Responsibility, present in detail on the nuclear subsidies in the House-passed climate bill (HR 2454) and in the Senate energy bill, which will be combined with the pending Senate climate bill, plus additional subsidies expected to be offered to the Senate bill. SACE's High Risk Energy Choices Program Director, Sara Barczak, along with our Federal Policy Director, Jen Rennicks, also engaged in the presentation.
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In June, the White House released a non-partisan, authoritative and comprehensiveclimate change report titled, “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.” Based on the most recent scientific research, this report discusses what global warming impacts are already in motion, what we can expect in the future and what choices we have to respond to human-induced global warming.
Toni Reale, the Southeast Coastal Organizer for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, will present Southeastern specific findings of this report as well as provide avenues for audience members to become more involved with the solutions to the climate crisis.
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Brandon Blevins, SACE wind program coordinator, discusses our wind program on WJCW Talk Radio AM910, http://wjcw.com/article.asp?id=563299&SPID=22883, and the facts about wind energy production for homeowners and municipalities. Brandon addresses questions individuals may have such as, “Is it economically feasible for a homeowner to generate their own electricity? What sort of a dollar investment would an individual need to initiate wind at their home? How does SACE work with homeowners to assist with financing wind projects?” Also in the interview, Blevins discusses SACE’s recent installation of wind-monitoring equipment atop a cell phone tower on Buffalo Mountain in Johnson City, Tenn.
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Toni Reale sits down to talk with Frank Knapp of WOIC talk radio in South Carolina on World Oceans Day. Reale, SACE's Southeast Coastal Organizer, discusses this important awareness day and urges listeners to take action by contacting a local representative. Reale's insight on carbon emissions' impacts to Southeast coastal areas is an educational opportunity for all.
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Dr. Kerry Emanuel, is a Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences as well as the Director of Programs in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC). He will talk about the fascinating science of hurricanes and our changing climate.
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This is the third webinar of the Southeast Coastal Climate Network's
Global Warming Webinar Series. This webinar series allows our friends
and allies to engage directly with experts in a wide-variety of fields
surrounding global warming impacts and solutions.
The guest speaker, Ann Yoakim, Program Manager of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy at Tulane University, discusses freshwater availability in the context of a changing climate and real world issues impacting the Southeast today.
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This is the second webinar of the Southeast Coastal Climate Network's Global Warming Webinar Series. This webinar series allows our friends and allies to engage directly with experts in a wide-variety of fields surrounding global warming impacts and solutions.
The guest speaker, Dr. Stephen Leatherman, Professor and Director of the
International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University,
shares the most-up-to-date sea level rise science, projections and impacts to the
Southeast.
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"The Science Behind Global Warming' is the first webinar of the Southeast Coastal Climate Network's Global Warming Webinar Series.
In this presentation, Dr. Greg Carbone, Climatologist at the University of South Carolina, shares the most-up-to-date science behind global warming including the causes, what climate variability means, what the geologic record tells us about current warming trends, how to respond to global warming deniers and more.
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Renewable Energy and Nuclear Webinar
On March 10, 2009, The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) hosted
a webinar on renewable energy potential in Florida on behalf of the
Southeast Coastal Climate Network (SECCN) and the Florida Climate
Alliance. Our featured speaker George Cavros, an energy law attorney
in a private practice in Ft. Lauderdale and clean energy policy
consultant for SACE discussed the “nuts and bolts” of the renewable
portfolio standard (RPS) being considered by the Florida state
legislature.
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Please feel free to contact Toni Reale, Southeast Coastal Organizer, for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy at toni@cleanenergy.org with questions about how to get involved in this important initiative.
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For the February webinar in SACE's monthly webinar series, we offered a presentation on the risks of expanding nuclear power in the Southeast. The webinar, led by our high risk energy choices program director, focused on several issues, including the impacts of new power plant proposals on our region’s water supplies and other concerns that have brought our organization and many others to challenge these new proposals.
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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) continues its webinar series with a presentation on the need for federal regulation of coal ash, TVA accountability, and what citizens can do about it. Our webinars are your opportunity to directly engage with SACE staff and learn about emerging clean energy technologies, opportunities and issues that SACE engages in everyday. SACE is excited to use this technology as a way to connect with our members and share the most up-to-date advances in the clean energy field.
For the January webinar in SACE's monthly webinar series, we gave a comprehensive overview of the coal ash spill at TVA’s Kingston facility and how this spill has highlighted another element of the coal-burning process and the need for federal regulation of this coal combustion waste, in additon to the need for greater oversight and accountability for TVA, the federally owned corporation that is the largest public power provider in the nation.
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In November, SACE’s webinar series examined the results from the 2008 elections. SACE’s Federal Policy Director/SACE Action Fund’s Political Director, Jennifer Rennicks, hosted this briefing for SACE members and allies to review the results from the historic 2008 elections and preview how this new Congress may address energy policy moving forward. This webinar offers a state-by-state breakdown of elected leaders in our region and interprets how these results may impact our work in the Southeast to support clean energy alternatives.
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An historic inauguration has taken place and a new federal administration is in the works. Of the many policies that could see a lot of change in the next few years, one is the nation's energy policy. November's Dialogue explores those issues, as Chrissy Keuper talks with Stephen Smith, Executive Director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. They discuss energy policy and climate, how the outcome of the election could impact those issues, and about how Tennessee fits into the big picture of and what changes in policy could mean for the state. Courtesy WUOT.org
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