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Obama proposes rebates for energy-saving home improvements
Mar 02, 2010Washington Post
- President Obama detailed Tuesday his plan to offer government rebates for home retrofitting, saying the measure would both create jobs and save energy.
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Baucus, Tester prepare to take up legislation to cap greenhouse gases
Feb 14, 2010The Missoulan
- Montana's U.S. senators are preparing to dive in on another big national issue - climate change and energy legislation - but it appears they're facing a divided state electorate on the subject.
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Ask citizens to help boost job creation through a Jobs Act bond measure
Jan 25, 2010The Seattle Times
- The Jobs Act is a bond measure for $850 million in projects around the state. This money will pay for needed repairs — such as replacing the roof on an elementary school. Then the school can undertake energy-efficiency work, such as installing better insulation and heat pumps, that will pay for itself in energy savings. So with an investment of $850 million from the state, taxpayers get $2.5 billion worth of projects — and save $190 million a year in lower electricity bills.
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Muzzle Murkowski, let EPA do its job
Jan 24, 2010Seattle Times
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, revived an old routine from the Bush administration that even the U.S. Supreme Court found pointless and irritating. She wants legislation to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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The case for a climate bill
Jan 23, 2010The New York Times
- President Obama can start to prove conventional wisdom wrong by making a full-throated case for a climate bill in his State of the Union speech this week.
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Green jobs, not green tasks
Jan 14, 2010The Seattle Times
- Federal and state investments in green jobs look ahead to future employment and future skills.
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City Club Missoula speakers detail greenhouse gas cap systems
Jan 11, 2010
- The key to decreasing carbon emissions is a cap on pollution, Keegan Eisenstadt told Monday's City Club Missoula forum. "The answer is weaning ourselves off our addiction to fossil fuels," said Eisenstadt, the chief executive officer of ClearSky Climate Solutions. "We need a binding cap that slowly decreases over time."
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UM's Running says expect shorter winters, more forest infestations with climate change
Jan 08, 2010The Missoulan
- Winters in the northern Rocky Mountains will shorten and the region's forests will become more susceptible to insect infestation and severe forest fires as a result of climate change over the next century, according to a recently released study.
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Three Oregon clean energy projects land $87 million in federal tax credits
Jan 08, 2010The Oregonian
- Three clean-tech companies with Oregon operations, or plans for one, captured $87 million in tax credits Friday as the White House announced $2.3 billion in credits to help create jobs.
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Growing new jobs in a greener world
Jan 06, 2010The Oregonian
- Even in the midst of this recession, research indicates that clean-energy jobs are poised for significant growth. In fact, according to a recent study by The Pew Charitable Trusts, employment opportunities in Oregon's clean-energy economy increased at a rate of 50.7 percent, while total jobs grew by only 7.5 percent overall between 1998 and 2007.
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Montana laborers to receive better training for new energy jobs
Jan 06, 2010Office of US Senator Jon Tester
- A Montana organization will be better equipped to train skilled laborers for new jobs in Montana’s emerging renewable energy industry, thanks to a grant announced today by Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester.
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Olympic College lands a grant to train home energy auditors
Jan 06, 2010Kitsap Sun
- Nearly 500 people in five Western Washington counties, including Kitsap, will be trained to conduct energy audits and weatherize homes and businesses under a $3.9 million federal grant announced Wednesday.
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Kitsap to share in federal money for green jobs
Jan 06, 2010The Kitsap Sun
- Washington state is receiving $13.5 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to train people for green jobs. The Washington money includes $3.9 million for an energy training partnership in Kitsap, King, Snohomish, Pierce and Clallam counties
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Enviro group plans Senate call-in on climate bill
Jan 06, 2010Greenwire via The New York Times
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It’s time to build our clean economy
Dec 26, 2009Everett Herald
- The world met in Copenhagen this month to cool down our climate. Now it’s our job to heat up our economy and secure our energy future with solutions to global warming — solutions like the ones we’re pioneering right here in Snohomish County and surrounding areas. We need action from Congress to accelerate these solutions.
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Off to the Races
Dec 20, 2009New York Times
- NYTimes Op-Ed columnist Tom Friedman on how the US can win the global race to create clean energy jobs & businesses
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Montanans in Copenhagen: Eyes of the world focused on U.S. Senate’s action on climate change
Dec 16, 2009Billings Gazette
- As the world haggles in Copenhagen over international agreements to slow global warming, there is intense interest in the U.S. Senate’s pending action on climate-change policy, Montanans attending the Copenhagen conference said Wednesday.
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Promote enlightened self-interest at the climate talks
Dec 15, 2009Seattle Times
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Climate pact needs Obama’s salesmanship
Dec 13, 2009The News Tribune
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Church bells to toll today to call attention to global warming
Dec 13, 2009Eugene Register-Guard
- No, the historic chimes at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the heart of Eugene are not malfunctioning and the bell ringers at First United Methodist Church haven’t gone bonkers. We are tolling 350 times this morning to call attention to the 350 Campaign (www.350.org), a worldwide effort to reduce CO2 emissions until the atmosphere returns to a sustainable level of 350 parts per million (ppm).
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A warm climate for our most vulnerable
Dec 11, 2009The Oregonian
- Over the years, I've witnessed our state blaze a trail toward sustainability, from the landmark bottle bill to visionary land-use planning. True sustainability must recognize that taking care of the planet and its people is one and the same goal. That should be our guiding principle as we confront the threat posed by global warming.
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Seattle's leadership on reducing carbon emissions and what comes next
Dec 11, 2009Seattle Times
- Sunday, I will arrive in Copenhagen, leading the U.S. Conference of Mayors in the next round of international negotiations on climate change. It's a good time to reflect on what we have accomplished here, and what we must continue. The bottom line: Despite the haggling and setbacks, the world will continue to take steps to address climate change. And cities that embrace change early will develop a competitive advantage in the global economy against those that don't.
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EDITORIAL: A countdown in Denmark
Dec 10, 2009Register-Guard
- Industrialized and developing countries have been at odds over how to fight global warming for years, making unrealistic demands of each other and seizing on their differences as justification for avoiding their own responsibilities. But the Copenhagen summit provides an opportunity to bridge that gap and produce the framework for a fair and effective deal — and just as important, a timetable for turning it into a treaty.
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EPA uses its power on climate change, finally
Dec 08, 2009Seattle Times
- The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement that greenhouse-gas emissions are a public health hazard is part of an orderly regulatory process that sets the stage for action. Congress has the power, and legislation before it, that can direct what happens next.
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The heat is on in Copenhagen
Dec 06, 2009The Oregonian
- It's vital that over the next two weeks all the scientists and world leaders who gather in Copenhagen talk not only among themselves, but also raise their voices and speak strongly about these issues to people around the world
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Oregon vies for green dollars
Apr 03, 2009OregonPortland Business Journal
- There’s about $71 billion for investments in clean energy and energy efficiency within the massive federal stimulus bill. Climate Solutions, a nonprofit based in Olympia, Wash., estimates the Pacific Northwest could snag as much as $9.2 billion of that money.
