By LARRY HUNTER Published: February 9, 2009NYTimes.com Amherst, Mass. THE Obama administration is poised to start a huge program to develop renewable energy sources — and at the same time, it hopes, create jobs, limit pollution and narrow our trade … Continued
US states with the most installed wind capacity, in megawatts(one million watts): Texas: 7116Iowa: 2790California: 2517Minnesota: 1752Washington: 1375Colorado: 1068Oregon: 1067Illinois: 915New York: 882Kansas: 815 Source: The American Wind Energy Association
Less than n two weeks out from Barack Obama’s visit to Canada, an international coalition of environmental groups has launched a public relations offensive urging the U. S. president not to shelter the Alberta oilsands from gritty greenhouse-gas regulations. The … Continued
With the U.S. Congress expected to pass its financial stimulus package this week, the world’s largest economy will join a growing list of governments that are banking on green jobs as a way out of crippling economic recession. If Congress … Continued
Energy efficiency and conservation proposals in President Barack Obama‘s original economic stimulus plan would cut climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions by 61 million tonnes a year, a new report says. That would be equivalent to eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions from … Continued
Wind and solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is … Continued
CHICAGO – Jeremy Youngman, a 32-year-old tattoo artist in Downers Grove, Ill., likes his birth control the way he likes his body art: permanent. At 27, Youngman got a vasectomy. Unlike the vast majority of the 500,000 men in the … Continued
Borrego Solar Systems, a manufacturer of a solar power systems that can connect to electrical grids, received $14 million in venture funding on Wednesday. The money will go toward the company’s expansion already under way to bring more solar installations … Continued
CHILIBRE, Panama — The land where Marta Ortega de Wing raised hundreds of pigs until 10 years ago is being overtaken by galloping jungle — palms, lizards and ants. Instead of farming, she now shops at the supermarket and her … Continued
Meeting the Obama Administration’s goal of putting 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on the road by 2015 will only happen with a coordinated set of policies and technology advances, according to an electric vehicle association. The Electric Drive Transportation Association … Continued
