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Cape Wind Gets FAA Approval, Again.
The Cape Wind turbines won’t be this close. Photo by Morten A. Mitchell Larød, some rights reserved. The FAA announced Wednesday that the 130-turbine Cape Wind project off the Massachusetts coast posed...
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The Army’s Green RFP
On August 7th, the U.S. Army (through its Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Alabama) issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) seeking to procure reliable locally generated renewable and...
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Wave-Energy Generation: The Beginning
A lot of energy in every wave. Photo by David Spinks, some rights reserved. Many words are written on developments in the wind and solar energy industries day in and day out, but this week another...
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Second Term Preview of Environmental Regulation
Photo by Carl Chapman, some rights reserved In the next four years, the Obama administration will make its mark on energy and environmental laws, working through pending legislation and proposed...
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Expiring Wind PTC: Who Stands Where?
Photo by Francesco Gola. Some rights reserved. In the intensifying battle over the extension of the wind energy production tax credit, a new tactic has emerged. The main lobby for extension, the...
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Salazar Departs Interior, Remembered for Advancing Renewables
Photo by Bob Johnson, USFWS Mountain Prairie, some rights reserved. One of the stars of the Green Mien since its inception has been Ken Salazar, Obama’s Secretary of the Interior, who announced he...
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New Investment Structure for Renewable Energy On the Radar
Looking for new ways to finance this. Photo by Paul Anderson, some rights reserved. While those who created the Green Mien envisioned it as a blog focusing on energy regulation, this writer often...
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The Challenges to Offshore Wind
Photo by Rob Farrow, some rights reserved. Mother Jones has a succinct piece on the challenges facing offshore wind projects, challenges that explain why the U.S. still doesn’t have a single offshore...
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Storing Renewable Energy: Is It All In the Spin?
via Wikimedia Commons We’ve been discussing the double edged sword that is nuclear power and what role it should play in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The reason nuclear power keeps...
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Artificial Photosynthesis
Photo by Popular Science Monthly. Some rights reserved. It took a few episodes to really get me on board, but I think at this point it’s safe to say that I’ve been enjoying Fox’s reboot of Carl Sagan’s...
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