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Copenhagen Close-up: The Danes Show the Path Away from Dirty Coal
This post was co-authored by Ulla Reeves. Today as I flew into Copenhagen, I was struck by two very different views of energy production, the large wind turbines off the Danish coast…
Florida PSC Fails to Answer the Call on Energy Efficiency
The PSC meeting last week was marked by two dramatic changes for Florida electric utilities. Utility-oriented commissioner Carter was succeeded as chair for 2010-2012 by the far more consumer-oriented commissioner, Nancy Argenziano. In remarks made while…
Copenhagen Close-up: Coastal Adaptation in Denmark - Ahead of the Curve or Behind the Times?
This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and was co-authored by Toni Reale, former Coastal Climate Coordinator at…
Industry groups pushing hard to influence EPA decision on coal ash
Industry lobbyists are working hard to influence the EPA's decision on whether to classify coal ash as a hazardous substance. According to a recent reports by the Wall Street Journal and New…
Fighting Coal in the South: Early Victory Sets the Stage
The following is an adaptation of a story about SACE's early work. The original story appeared in a publication released by the Energy Foundation: Our battles require consistent and focused pressure here…
A Pope of Climate Denial
This blog is a repost from Facing South: The Online Magazine for the Institute for Southern Studies. Find the original blog post by Sue Sturgis here. There's broad agreement among scientists nowadays…
The Real Cost of Coal? $523,303,948,403 and counting
If you live in the Southeast you, as an individual, probably consume around 6,300 kilo-watt hours (kWh) of electricity each year*. The national average cost of residential electricity is 11.51 cents per…
Building Clean Energy Careers in Kentucky
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED) recently released a report, “Building Clean Energy Careers in Kentucky.” The report justifies the creation of clean energy policy in Kentucky for economic development. Kentucky…
Northern Exposure - shining a light on Canadas dirty tar sands oil
There is little question that America remains addicted to oil just as we were five years ago when then President George W. Bush famously included that statement in his 2006 State of…
Climate conversations in Cancun crawling along
This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.