renewable energy standard
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Can states keep clean energy jobs at home?
Photo: GreenforallCan a state with a renewable energy mandate require green jobs to stay at home? Litigation has made states into tepid defenders of their job rights, but states have the legal ground to go great lengths to keep more of the economic development from their renewable energy industry inside their borders. No renewable energy […]
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Renewable energy standards: less effective, more costly, but politically preferred to cap-and-trade?
It is ironic that while cap-and-trade is dead in the Senate, support has emerged for an approach that would be both less effective and more costly.
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California launches compromise small-scale renewable auction
The California Public Utility Commission launched its Renewable Auction Mechanism last week, to spur more development in renewable energy projects.
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Britain abandons renewable power mandates, embraces feed-in tariffs
In a potentially precedent-setting move for the English-speaking world, the UK proposes abandoning its "market reforms" of the 1990s.
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Why tax credits make lousy renewable energy policy
The cash grant program is set to end this year, but solar and wind advocates hope it will be extended, for good reason. Tax credits make dumb policy.
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Midterms: Green power helps Colorado buck the national trend
Wins by Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper sent a strong signal that supporting new energy and fighting global warming pollution are winning issues.
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The Climate Post: 2011 could see truly epic legislative battles over climate, energy
Read more on the fate of the renewable energy standard, nice Canadians and their not-so-nice tar sands, electric cars, and more.
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Obama: We may need to solve climate change in 'chunks'
Obama told Rolling Stone we may have to solve climate change in chunks. Done with resolve, this has the potential to surpass a comprehensive climate bill
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Before big China climate conference, new Senate support for clean energy
I’ll be in Beijing later this week, and then on to Tianjin to cover China’s first U.N.-sponsored climate summit, which begins Oct. 4. Before leaving, though, I wanted to note that on September 22, a group of Republican and Democratic senators sent a rare bipartisan signal to the world that the United States has not abandoned the hard work of reducing climate emissions and speeding the clean energy transition.