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Lincoln, NE: Importance of an Energy Evaluation

Friday, August 16th, 2013

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Who Pays the Cost of Fracking?

Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Who Pays the Cost of Fracking?

ENVIRONMENT AMERICA Introduction America is in the midst of a fracking boom … and a fracking bust. In North Dakota, times are booming. The state has rapidly become the nation’s second-largest oil producer due to the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (the combination of technologies used in fracking) to tap oil supplies from […]

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Energy Savings Strategies For Transit Agencies

Monday, August 5th, 2013
Energy Savings Strategies For Transit Agencies

TRANSIT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM Introduction Synthesis Purpose Rising energy prices, budget constraints, and concerns about energy independence, sustainability, and climate change have put pressure on all sectors of the economy to use energy as efficiently as possible. This is particularly true in the transportation sector, which accounts for approximately 28% of U.S. energy consumption (1). […]

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Public Private Partnership to Build 51-mile Greenway along LA River

Friday, July 26th, 2013
Public Private Partnership to Build 51-mile Greenway along LA River

Transportation Issues Daily The newly-formed Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation has announced the visionary, ambitious Greenway 2020 plan to create a 51-mile Greenway along the Los Angeles River. LA River Corp is a public private partnership, and will acquire public and private money to improve the existing 26 miles of bike paths along the river […]

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Lighting the Way: What We Can Learn from America’s Top 12 Solar States

Thursday, July 25th, 2013
Lighting the Way: What We Can Learn from America’s Top 12 Solar States

ENVIRONMENT AMERICA Executive Summary Solar energy is on the rise. America has more than three times as much solar photovoltaic capacity today as in 2010, and more than 10 times as much as in 2007. In the first three months of 2013, solar power accounted for nearly half of the new electricity generating capacity in […]

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Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Chapter 1: Overview and Scope of the Study Legislative Background to the StudyIn 2008, Congress directed the U.S. Department of the Treasury to work with the National Academies to undertake “a comprehensive review of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to identify the types of and specific tax provisions that have […]

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How Green Is My State?

Thursday, July 11th, 2013
How Green Is My State?

Visua.ly Walking around in your neighborhood, you may see recycling cans on your curb, solar panels on your neighbor’s home, hybrid vehicles in nearby driveways, and mass transit stops just a few blocks away. With all the efforts our communities make to reduce, reuse, and recycle, are other neighborhoods following suit? How about state-wide efforts? […]

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U.S. Solar Market Insight Report Q1 2013

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
U.S. Solar Market Insight Report Q1 2013

SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION & GTM RESEARCH Introduction This is the 12th edition of the quarterly GTM Research/SEIA® U.S. Solar Market InsightTM series. From the first report published in 2010 through the end of 2012, the most dramatic transformation in the U.S. solar market was the growth of utility-scale solar. Utility PV installations in the […]

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Strategies to Scale-Up U.S. Renewable Energy Investment

Monday, July 1st, 2013
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AMERICAN COUNCIL ON RENEWABLE ENERGY

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Creating Universal Access to Safe, Clean and Affordable Transport

Thursday, June 27th, 2013
Creating Universal Access to Safe, Clean and Affordable Transport

SLoCaT (THE PARTNERSHIP ON SUSTAINABLE, LOW CARBON TRANSPORT) Chapter 1 Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport- Why it Matters, Now and in the Future “Transportation and mobility are central to sustainable development”- The Future We Want, Rio+20, 2012 The global community is in the process of renewing its commitment to eradicate poverty, ban hunger and help ensure […]

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