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We need clean energy now
With the Senate in session in September, our Senators need to hear from you now. Please let them know that failing to pass a comprehensive climate and clean-energy policy, and attempts to undermine the Clean Air Act’s authority to cut climate pollution are unacceptable. Ask your Senators to support the clean-energy policies still on the table that could move forward this year: Homestar and Vehicle Electrification will help to reduce climate pollution while building our clean-energy economy.
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Northwest Senators are serious about passing climate legislation
The fight for comprehensive federal climate-clean energy legislation that puts a firm cap on global warming emissions is heating up. Climate Solutions worked closely with the Northwest delegation, and we are pleased to report that a majority of our Northwest Senators signed on to this effort.
Is Corporate America our best hope against climate change?
Clean-energy solutions are emerging from every layer of the business world, from tiny startups to Fortune 500 behemoths. Major corporations set their own plans for greenhouse gas emissions reductions that are far greener than targets that nations throw about at U.N. climate change summits.
Oregon town uses geothermal energy to stay warm
Geothermal wells in this town of 20,000 mark one of the most ambitious uses of a green energy resource with a tiny carbon footprint and could serve as a model for a still-fledgling industry that is gaining steam with $338 million in stimulus funds and more than 100 projects nationwide.
Green economy on the rise
Green jobs in the state's private sector grew by nearly 33 percent last year, according to a state Employment Security Department report released Thursday. The study, directed by the state Legislature, tallied 99,319 green jobs, or about 3.3 percent of the state’s work force. The state defines a green job as one in which workers increase energy efficiency, produce renewable energy, or prevent, reduce and clean up pollution.
B.C. green sector could become $27-billion giant: report
British Columbia’s green economy could grow into a $27-billion-per-year green giant by 2020, according to a new report from the Globe Foundation. B.C. could become a “living laboratory” for green-sector growth that would add value to the provincial gross domestic product more than twice as fast as the economy as a whole.
