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Truth In Food Labeling Would Reveal Hidden Harms To Biodiversity, Including Humans

December 11, 2024 admin 0 Comments Agriculture, FOOD, HEALTH, policy & politics, usda

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:58:55 +0000

Should we let businesses that contaminate community water systems write their own rules for what counts as unhealthy? Should we allow factories to spew dangerous emissions into the air? Should we turn our backs when employers force workers to endure dangerous conditions? Of course not. We want to protect each … [continued]

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Small Wind Power Projects Expanding into New Markets

September 28, 2024 admin alaska, clean power, green economy, onshore wind farms, pacific northwest national laboratory (pnnl), pnnl, research, us department of agriculture (usda), us department of energy (doe), usda, wind energy, wind energy technologies office, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:54:20 +0000

The distributed wind market is growing both in size and variety, according to a new PNNL-led report An electric vehicle manufacturer, two schools and two Alaskan villages: these are just some of the organizations using wind turbines to help meet their energy needs. For the last eight months, researchers from … [continued]

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16 Rural Electric Cooperatives Will Leverage $7.3 Billion in Federal Funding to Deliver More Affordable, Reliable Electricity to Their Members

September 18, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, clean transport, community solar, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, policy & politics, rmi, Solar energy, us department of agriculture (usda), usda, wind energy

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:50:52 +0000

Projects represent historic investments of $29 billion in clean energy that will benefit 1 in 5 rural Americans The first wave of 16 rural electric cooperatives (co-ops) selected to receive the USDA’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) funding plan to leverage their awards to deploy carbon-free energy to help power … [continued]

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Atlanta Motorsports Park Amps Up Its Dawsonville Track Campus With 358kW Solar Array

August 9, 2024 admin ATLANTA, clean power, Georgia, press releases, Solar energy, solar panels, us department of agriculture (usda), us environmental protection agency (epa), usda

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:55:50 +0000

A large solar farm is coming to Atlanta Motorsports Park (AMP), a premier motorsports club in Dawsonville renowned for its F1-style road course and thrilling karting course. Located in Dawsonville, Ga., the AMP campus is adding solar power through an array of 747 panels, generating 480 watts per panel, for … [continued]

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Updated Home Energy Efficiency Standards Could Affect 1 in 4 Homes

May 8, 2024 admin buildings, clean power, consumer technology, energy efficiency, fha, home energy management, HUD, us department of agriculture (usda), usda

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 03:33:42 +0000

Updated efficiency standards from HUD and USDA will lower bills and make homes safer. Here’s how. On April 25, the US Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Agriculture (USDA) announced final energy efficiency standards for new home construction. The refreshed standards will impact up to a quarter of … [continued]

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Lowering Energy Costs & Emissions in Rural America

January 25, 2024 admin Agriculture, clean power, nrdc, usda

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:18:03 +0000

NRDC endorses legislation to improve USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program. The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) has been … [continued]

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Tri-State Closing Arizona, Colorado Coal Plants Early, Investing in More Renewables

December 2, 2023 admin climate change, Coal, coal plant retirements, cooperative, funding, irã, new era, news, nreca, power, Renewables, retirement, rural, Solar, tri-state, tri-state generation and transmission, usda, western resource advocates, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 14:11:09 +0000

Colorado-based cooperative Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association will accelerate the closure of a coal-fired unit in the northwestern part of the state, and also announced a retirement date for an […]

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