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New York is getting brighter!
By: Kristofer Settle Nov 2, 2013 Source: the energy collective The streets of New York City will be a little brighter (literally) over the next few years. Last week NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a new effort to replace the city’s current amber streetlights for white, more energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs throughout the five…
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Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive
Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive – by Chad Hanson, October 3, 2013. Source: Los Angeles Times It was entirely predictable. Even before the ashes have cooled on the 257,000-acre Rim fire in and around Yosemite this year, the timber industry and its allies in Congress were using the fire as an excuse for suspending environmental laws and expanding logging operations on federal land.…
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Commission Revises Archaeological Conditions for Hu Honua Bioenergy
Commission Revises Archaeological Conditions for Hu Honua Bioenergy – by Tom Callis, October 4, 2013. Source: Hawaii Tribune-Herald The Hu Honua Bioenergy project was back before the Windward Planning Commission briefly Thursday. Third Circuit Court Judge Greg Nakamura, who is handling the appeal of a contested case hearing regarding the 21.5-megawatt biomass power plant under construction near…
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