Hurricane Irene and its Impact on Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power
This is the first in a three part series of blogs examining how natural disasters like hurricanes impact our energy generation. Traditional energy resources (nuclear, coal, oil and natural gas) appeared to…
President Obama Abandons Clean Air Standard
President Obama announced today that he is tossing aside a long-anticipated plan to strengthen air quality standards for ozone. In this disappointing move, the Administration claims that rejection of this human health safeguard…
Tr-Ash Talk: State of Failure
The following is a re-post of a piece originally published here and written by Raviya Ismail of Earthjustice. This post reports on the failure of states to properly regulate coal ash and…
A Perspective On Helping Japan Disaster Victims
Note from SACE High Risk Energy Choices program director, Sara Barczak: SACE Intern Jeannie McKinney authored this guest blog. She is working in our Knoxville, TN office on energy efficiency policy. Prior…
Extreme Weather: What is in Store? Who is to Blame?
This blog was co-authored by Amy Vaden. It certainly seems that extreme weather events are becoming more commonplace. Scientific American recently reported that 2011 saw the sixth-highest number of tornado-related deaths ever…
Earthquake Aftershocks
This blog was co-authored by Sara Barczak, former Regional Advocacy Director with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and Mandy Hancock, SACE's former High Risk Energy Organizer.
Green Job Training in the Southeast
Recently, it seems that every politician has the exact same top three priorities: Jobs, Jobs and Jobs. Some of those jobs can come in the form of green jobs. Green jobs vary…
Sit In, Stand Up: Tar Sands Expansion Gets National Attention
UPDATE: on Friday, August 26, the U.S. State Department released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL Pipeline Project despite concerns from EPA and growing protests by environmental groups. Although…
The Intermittency of Fossil Fuels
You've likely heard this argument before: "The wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine, so we can't rely on renewable energy." However, a series of recent events undermine the…
Utility CEO Speaks Truth
I wanted to share with you an article I read by Don Shelby of minnpost.com. The piece, “Rising from meter-reader to CEO, Xcel’s Dick Kelly has sound perspective on the environment,” is…