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us/Growing the Options: Showing the Clean Economy is Good Politics and Policies
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There are a lot of venues where clean economy players network and do business. Michael Liebreich’s excellent Bloomberg New Energy Finance summit and Pennwell’s Solar Power-Gen come immediately to ...
us/Introducing: Deep Accountability
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This is the first in a series of occasional posts I’m writing to grow an idea I’m calling “Deep Accountability.” Currently, fossil fuel industry lobbyists, flacks, allied pundits, and government o...
us/Mr. Morriss Gets Acquainted With Irish Confetti
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Originally posted at ScalingGreen.com. Merriam-Webster: Irish Confetti - “A rock or brick used as a missile.” We recently wrote about professional clean energy critic Andrew Morriss being schooled ...
us/Clean Energy Advocate Gives a “How to” Clinic on Rebutting Fossil Energy Disinformation
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Cross posted from The Great Energy Challenge Anaheim, CA – Over the past few months, I’ve made the case that the dirty energy lobby plays a full contact game against clean energy, using lobbying a...
us/Lessons from PFC Restrepo’s Mother
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Cross-posted from The Great Energy Challenge. The incredibly brave work of the U.S. Special Forces team that killed Osama bin Laden brought some badly needed, uplifting news. It gave Americans welc...
us/National Coal Expert: “Mining is a Loser” in Practically Every Way
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Originally posted at The Great Energy Challenge blog Anytime coal’s cost to America is discussed, the coal industry reflexively talks about what an economic lifeline it is for the states in which...
us/Gambling when we don’t have to
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Two weeks ago, I visited the office of a friend of mine, a partner at a top cleantech Silicon Valley law firm. He and I shared a concern about the increasingly hostile, anti-clean energy propagand...
us/Top EIA Energy Trends Watcher Agrees: We Do Not Count Damage to Public Property in Price of Fossil Fuels
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Scaling Green recently wrote about the insights shared by energy trends analyst Chris Namovicz of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), who spoke at our “Communicating Energy” lecture s...
us/Top EIA Energy Trends Watcher: No Definitive Count on Dirty Energy Welfare
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The national conversation about wasteful welfare for highly profitable dirty energy corporations has gone from the dramatic statement by the Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency that ...
us/How the Other Guys Play
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Americans want deficits cut , and there is a new set of leaders in Congress who committed themselves last year to cutting wasteful government spending. And, while over 70 percent of Americans are u...
us/Job for the New Congress: Read the Latest Review of Wasteful Welfare for Dirty Energy
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The new Congress roared into Washington this week with what it sees as a mandate to cut government spending. Required reading for all its new members should be Washington Monthly’s excellent new p...
us/T. Boone Picken’s Flip-Flop on Wind: Need for RES, Grid Upgrades, and a Memo to Gas Industry That Fracking Is a Dead End
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Cross posted from Scaling Green.  This past week, MSNBC reported that oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens, author of the“Pickens Plan” – to switch America heavily into natural gas and wind power, plus...