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3,339 mentions for topic: Energy Policy
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Stephen A. Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, argues in this op-ed that the Federal Renewable Production Tax Credit for wind should be extended to preserve 37,000 American jobs and billions in…
“I don't think anybody gets any credit with 'I told you so,' but we were critical of so much of this seven years ago, and now they are wondering why they have a shortfall.”
Op-ed by John Noel, president of the Regional Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and member of Tennessee's Governor's Energy Task Force, advocating for state leadership on energy efficiency. The piece highlights Tennessee's energy waste problem and…
“I think it is significant that two of the most important workhorses of renewable energy - wind and biomass - were missing from this forum”
Guest editorial arguing that cap-and-trade legislation is an effective market-based policy tool for reducing pollution and driving clean energy innovation. The author cites the successful 1990s Acid Rain Program as historical precedent and notes Tennessee's emerging…
Two opinion letters debate Senator Alexander's Republican boycott of climate change legislation in Congress. Rev. Douglas B. Hunt of Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light urges Alexander to support climate and energy legislation, while a second letter…
Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus faces pressure from environmental coalitions, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, to schedule hearings on the Cantwell-Collins cap-and-dividend climate bill. Multiple letters from environmental groups and AARP have been sent…
“The political will for oil drilling is going to further erode. And offshore wind in the Southeast is a tremendous resource. So we hope that Georgia doesn't miss the opportunity simply because of a lack of foresight or a willingness to stick with the status quo.”
A Florida Today editorial criticizes state lawmakers for failing to pass comprehensive renewable energy policy, citing economic opportunity losses. The piece references a Southern Alliance for Clean Energy analysis projecting 50,000 jobs could have been created…
A Union of Concerned Scientists study finds that Tennessee and Georgia spend over $1.2 billion and $2.6 billion annually respectively importing coal for electricity generation, with Georgia importing more coal than any other state. The study…
“They shouldn't be in the mode of just selling kilowatts — I agreed that he's got the proper frame for the issue. But I don't have the sense that he is leading in that in a big way as much as maybe his rhetoric would indicate.”
“To build reactors that might need to be significantly modified later and extensively backfitted in light of new post-Fukushima regulatory requirements risks wasting ratepayer dollars, causing unnecessary pollution, and even possible abandonment of the project”
Clean Air Carolina, the National Council of Churches, and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy are co-hosting a Citizen's Hearing on Carbon Pollution on June 11, 2012, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event gives Southeastern residents…
“The question is now, how do you bring TVA to justice for violating the law? I think the answer is for the administration to step in and send a clear message to TVA about what they want to do with their coal plants.”
“While it is possible under the arcane provisions of the TVA Act for three board members to impose a rate increase without the proper public hearings and third-party rate review in this day and age, it represents bad policy and an undemocratic process of a paternalistic nature. In other words, this decision is not a good move for relationships with people in the valley.”
