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1,536 mentions for topic: Clean Energy Generation
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A coalition including SACE, Clean Air Carolina, the National Council of Churches, and USCAN hosted a Citizens Hearing in Charlotte, North Carolina to support EPA's new carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants. The event…
“Unlike a hurricane, tornado or earthquake that strikes quickly, these droughts are disasters in slow motion. It's something that we could prepare for”
A report by Appalachian Voices ranks Great Smoky Mountains National Park as having the worst air quality among U.S. national parks for the second consecutive year, based on National Park Service data from 1991–1999. The study…
“I heard that for 10 years ... intermittent cloud cover. A good number of states have set targets for renewable energy and that helps to create a market where renewable energy can thrive and Florida policy makers have not done that.”
Approximately 300 people attended a rally on Tybee Island sponsored by SACE and the Sierra Club to promote offshore wind energy development in Georgia. Anna Smit, Clean Energy Associate for SACE, highlighted the potential for high-quality…
John Wilson of SACE argues that renewable energy growth has consistently exceeded expert predictions, citing Minnesota's $20 billion renewable investment as evidence. He contends that Southeast utility staff and energy experts regularly underestimate renewable energy opportunities…
A new biodiesel fuel station opened in Atlanta at 250 Arizona Ave. NE as a partnership between the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) and Clean Energy Biofuels (CEB). The station recovers used oils from food…
“the nation should be turning its attention to renewable, clean fuel such as wind energy”
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Sierra Club hosted a wind energy rally on Tybee Island, Georgia, highlighting the island's wind resources and the job-creation potential of wind energy. SACE representative Anna Smit spoke about…
“We're concerned TVA is not moving aggressively enough with sulfur dioxide emission reductions”
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received two major sustainability honors: designation as a 2011 Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota Motor North America, and selection for the University Green Power Leadership…
The article announces that the Tennessee Valley Authority must conduct public hearings on its 25-year Integrated Resource Plan (Energy Vision 2020) for the first time in over 60 years, a requirement mandated by the 1992 Energy…
“We applaud Duke Energy for taking decisive action today to permanently close the troubled Crystal River Nuclear Plant inherited as part of the Duke-Progress merger last summer.”
“It's a classic. You got somebody who's a TVA board member who leaves to go to work for someone who for all practical purposes is a competitor. I think everybody in the valley should be a little concerned about it. ... I just think folks need to come out on the record and say exactly what they're doing. What they may be doing may be completely admirable.”
South Carolina's Public Service Commission reversed a November decision and agreed to increase the rates Dominion Energy must pay solar farm developers, from 2 cents to 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour. The decision was requested by…
