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Solar Jobs Could Brighten the Economy
By Marc Lifsher November 13, 2013, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles County could create tens of thousands of new jobs and reduce global-warming-causing carbon emissions if solar-voltaic panels are installed on just 5% of available rooftops, says a just-issued report. The study by the Environmental Defense Fund and the Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA, released Wednesday, predicts that 29,000 installer…
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EPA eGRID 2010 CO2, SO2 and NOx Emissions Data for U.S. Electric Power Plants
The following data is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 eGRID database, which has data for all electric generating plants in the U.S. Our copy of this data, organized to produce the charts below, is available here. [Note that, while this data makes natural gas look clean, it’s only looking at smokestack emissions. Natural…
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There Is Hope For Energy Efficiency!
By Ralph Cavanagh November 26th, 2013 Switchboard NRDC Blog In the global competition for appealing clean energy solutions, a leading entry is the new West Village at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), which today celebrated significant progress toward its goal of becoming the largest planned “zero-net energy” community in the United States.…
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