Green Tech And Obama: How It Went During His First Term

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Center for American Progress reports on how the Obama administration successfully adopted policies to protect public health from air pollution, lower oil consumption and create jobs. Read more →

We Need A Lot of Clean Energy To Stabilize Near 2°C Warming

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Center for American Progress talks about the need for every last bit of carbon-free energy starting ASAP to have a reasonable chance of avoiding catastrophic levels of carbon pollution. Read more →

Chevy Volt Sales Tripled In 2012, Helping GM’s Bottom Line

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Center for American Progress talks about how sales of fuel efficient vehicles, such as the Chevy Volt, helped GM with amazing sales in 2012. Read more →

How A Progressive Carbon Tax Could Be Good For The U.S.

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Center for American Progress writes about the possible advantages a progress carbon tax could offer to fight climate change and stimulate the economy. Read more →

Give The Voters What Want: Policies To Promote Clean Energy

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Center for American Progress writes about how this past election showed American voters are more and more wanting cleaner sources of energy. Read more →

Four Ways We Can Drive More Distributed Generation Now

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Climate Progress talks about four big ideas that can move us toward an electricity system with higher penetrations of clean, distributed energy. Read more →

Federal Weatherization Program A Winner On All Counts

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Center for American Progress reports on how the federal Weatherization Assistance Program exists to help make sure all Americans share benefits of energy efficiency. Read more →

Koch-Affiliated Group: Make Wind Tax Credit ‘Toxic’ To GOP

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Think Progress Green reports on how a Koch-affiliated group is campaigning to make the expiring wind tax credit "so toxic" Republicans won’t back it. Read more →

Energy Lessons From The Edge Of The Earth

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Center for American Progress reports on a first of its kind wind power project in a rural Alaskan village with smart grid and residential electric thermal storage. Read more →

Wind Power Helps To Lower Electricity Prices

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Center for American Progress talks about how the wind production tax credit benefits our economy and also looks at Exelon’s antiwind arguments. Read more →