SACE Comes Out Strong on Policies to Expand Solar Development in Florida
SACE staffer John Wilson also contributed to this post. Today the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) responded to the Florida Public Service Commission’s Request for Comments on policies and programs to…
Pope Francis: Substitute Fossil Fuels with Renewable Energy
This post is part of the “Prelude to Paris” series highlighting updates and analysis on international climate negotiations in the lead up to the United Nations climate change conference – the 21st…
In Memory of a Creation Care Champion: SACE Mourns the Loss of Sen. Clementa Pinckney
This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Denying the climate change and health connection got them nowhere; polluters try (and fail) to convince Latinos and African Americans that the Clean Power Plan is bad for their bottom line
This post, written by Juan Declet-Barreto, originally appeared on NRDC's Switchboard blog on June 11, 2015 and is reposted with permission. Addressing the disproportionate impacts of carbon pollution on the health of low-income…
TVA Advisory Board Meeting Gives Preview of Final 2015 IRP
Today, the Tennessee Valley Authority's Regional Energy Resource Council (RERC) ended two days of meetings in which they were given a preview of the recommendations in TVA's forthcoming 2015 Integrated Resource Plan…
Corporate Social Responsibility with Renewable Power, is Coca-Cola Next?
Corporations around the country and globe are finding new ways to comply with their own, voluntary and self-imposed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals. CSR is frequently explained as the "triple-bottom-line" or "3P…
The 15-Year Global Warming Hiatus Debunked
A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) affirms that the globe has indeed been warming quickly in recent decades, in spite of arguments to the contrary. In fact,…
First Legal Challenge to the Clean Power Plan Dismissed
Today, the DC Circuit dismissed the first legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan. The lawsuit, filed by the coal industry and several coal dependent states, claimed that EPA…
PSC’s ‘Misplaced Priorities’ Lead to Higher Utility Bills for Alabamians
This guest post by Dr. Stacie Propst, executive director of GASP, was originally published on GASP's website on May 28, 2015. A report titled “What Public Service? How the Alabama Public Service…
Mississippi's Jazzed About Wind Power
Electric utility companies across the south are snapping up wind power contracts - and now a utility in Mississippi may jump on the wind power bandwagon. South Mississippi Electric Power Association (SMEPA) recently released…