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Green job funds coming to New Mexico community colleges

By | 10.25.11 | 8:55 am | More from The New Mexico Independent

Not all students have the means or good fortune of attending a four-year institution. To that end, community colleges are a place of learning ideal for individuals on tight budgets in search of more academic opportunities.

The Obama administration is continuing its pledge to reach out to these More…

Retiring Xcel CEO: ‘I’d be ok if there were never any more coal’

By | 08.20.11 | 11:22 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

“I’d be OK if there were never any more coal,” retiring Xcel Energy CEO Dick Kelly recently told the non-profit news site MinnPost.com.

Kelly, who’s apparently moving from Minnesota (where Xcel is based) to Colorado (where Xcel is the state’s largest electric utility), went on to question those in More…

Udalls yet again try to establish national renewable energy standard

By | 04.06.11 | 3:14 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Two days after a conservative group filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver challenging Colorado’s renewable energy standard (RES), Colorado Sen. Mark Udall – who was instrumental in getting voter approval for that RES back in 2004 – introduced a bill with his cousin Tom Udall, D-N.M., More…

Cost issues get in the way of renewable energy development

By | 11.08.10 | 9:03 am

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

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Sierra Club’s Brune on Wind Energy

By | 09.24.10 | 11:36 am

Here’s another excerpt from my interview with Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. Brune and I discussed wind energy and the need for new electric lines, or transmission, to carry the electricity produced by wind energy around the country.

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Environmentalists Look Forward: An Interview With the Sierra Club’s Brune

By | 09.24.10 | 4:30 am

Despite the Gulf oil spill, a massive pipeline break in Michigan and broad concerns about global warming, ambitious climate-change and energy legislation is likely dead for the year. That poses a conundrum, going forward, for environmentalists: How to convince lawmakers of the need for legislation to sever the country’s More…

Bingaman, Brownback to Introduce RES Bill Tomorrow

By | 09.20.10 | 3:07 pm

It looks like the renewable energy standard is going to get a high-profile, bipartisan boost. Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) are slated tomorrow to throw their support behind the proposal. Also, signing on to the proposal: Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Susan Collins (R-ME), Tom Udall (D-NM).

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With Washington Pressing for Wind Energy, Companies Fight Over Infrastructure Investments

By | 09.08.10 | 4:30 am

By now, the Obama administration has made clear it wants to ramp up the use of renewable energy, calling it a key to the nation’s leadership in the 21st century. And some in Congress are hoping to pass a federal renewable energy standard, requiring the production of more wind, solar, More…

Barton’s Greatest Hits: Wind Power Might Mess Up Global Wind Patterns and Make the Earth Warmer

By | 09.18.09 | 2:55 pm

Speaking of Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) — who apparently is weighing a run for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) — Kate just passed along the all-time money-est Barton quote ever (and that’s saying something) about how wind power might More…

Windy Economic Times

By | 10.10.08 | 4:50 pm

The extension of federal tax credits for the production of wind energy could help boost the economies of some Indian tribes, reports the New York Times.

In South Dakota, the Rosebud Sioux tribe is working on a 30-megawatt wind farm that could bring some needed revenue for residents. Per More…