U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Waterloo) is calling for an extension of the renewable energy production tax credit, joining U.S. Reps. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) in introducing a bill to keep the credit through 2016.
The wind energy industry employs about 3,000 people in Iowa More…
Xcel Energy officials late this afternoon expressed disappointment over Boulder’s move to create its own municipal electric utility, continuing to cast doubt on the city’s cost projections.
But backers of the so-called municipalization that would oust Xcel – the state’s largest utility — were buoyed by Tuesday’s narrow victory that More…
Cliffs Natural Resources, the international mining and natural resources company that began producing biofuel cubes at a factory near Marquette this year, has announced that it is closing its renewaFUEL operation.
In a statement this week the company said that it plans to focus resources on iron mining, More…
The United States in 2010 slipped to third in the world in the amount of private capital invested in the clean energy sector, according to a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
The U.S. saw $34 billion in private equity invested in the sector last year, a 51 More…
U.S. nuclear development, already slowed by a lack of private investment, seems likely to be further stalled by the political fallout from the Fukushima disaster in Japan. How fast this slowdown will lead to more renewables is an open question.
The U.S. has 104 nuclear reactors which supply 20 percent More…
The New York Times ran a great story yesterday on the elephant in the room when it comes to renewable energy: cost.
Even as many politicians, environmentalists and consumers want renewable energy and reduced dependence on fossil fuels, a growing number of projects are being canceled or delayed because
The Washington Post reports on President Obama’s new strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
A White House official said energy would remain a top priority for the administration but would be packaged differently.
Here’s a quick recap of the midterm results from last night that have implications for energy/climate/environmental policy.
It was mostly bad news for House Democrats who voted for the chamber’s cap-and-trade bill. The two most stinging defeats were Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who worked furiously behind the scenes to More…
New data released today say the United States is falling far behind Europe and China in wind turbine installation — further evidence, wind advocates say, that Congress must enact policies to incentivize wind production.
The numbers, reported by the American Wind Energy Association, indicate that the third quarter of 2010 More…
Wind industry officials are working overtime to counter a story published yesterday by American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop that finds many of the wind farms that received stimulus money were built during the Bush administration or earlier, potentially undercutting the Obama administration’s claims that it created thousands of new More…
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