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Creating 625,000 jobs and saving $64 billion through energy efficiency
A major new report finds that a straightforward set of policies aimed at upgrading just 40 percent of the residential and commercial building stock in the United States would create 625,000 sustained full-time jobs over a decade and spark $500 billion in
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How bad are the next few years going to suck?
Really bad. That's how bad they're going to suck.
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PACE homeowners must pay up before refinancing, Fannie and Freddie say
Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said today that homeowners must pay off PACE assessments before refinancing their mortgages.
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Attention Congress: China is shutting down its old coal plants
Certain members of the U.S. Congress believe that America shouldn't do anything about climate change until China does. Let's focus on something China is doing: shutting down old, dirty coal plants.
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Exclusive: Fannie regulator digs in on clean-energy opposition
The Federal Housing Finance Agency solidified its opposition to the home-greening program PACE in a letter to members of Congress.
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Obama turns an even lighter shade of green
Barack Obama sided with utility companies in a lawsuit trying to combat greenhouse gas pollution. This latest anti-green move baffles us, Mr President
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Iowa ag secretary boasted of state's vast egg industry, failed to regulate it
Why was Wright County Egg owner Jack DeCoster allowed to run a massive feed mill completely unregulated by the state of Iowa?
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Canada declares BPA toxic. Why haven't we?
Canada has officially declared bisphenol A toxic, in brazen defiance of the chemical industry. Here's hoping that will give the U.S. Senate the spine to follow suit.
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The Kochs are screwing the environment
Please, do yourself a favor, and read Jane Mayer’s article in the New Yorker about the corporate underwriting of the anti-environmental agenda. You will find it time well spent.
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Remember that massive clean-energy bill Obama signed?
If you read everything that bloggers declared a "must read," you'd have time for little else. I'll just say that if you want a lucid tour of the Obama administration's work to remake the country's energy and transportation landscape, it's tough to beat Michael Grunwald's new TIME piece "How the Stimulus is Changing America."
