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Obama to Critics of Economic Stimulus Package: Are You Serious? [video]

Tom Schueneman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:50:16 +0000

President Obama’s response to critics characterizing as “pork” the plan to use part of the economic stimulus money to modernize the fleet of federal vehicles:

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From Solar Panels to Sarah Palins: The Top 10 Green Politics Stories of 2008

Timothy B. Hurst — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:10:05 +0000

Campaign politics dominated the headlines in 2008, making it a banner year for the armchair pundit and the politically uninitiated alike. 2008 was also a year that issues like energy use, climate change and carbon footprints came to the forefront of popular culture and political reality. And that’s where we came in.

In the tradition of more credible media outlets, we’ve compiled our most popular stories of the year into an easily digestible top 10 list. As it is based purely on pageviews, we realize that our list of the top ten environmental politics stories of the year is by no means scientific - and we’re okay with that.

Return of Federal Small-Wind Tax Credit a Big Boost for Small Wind

Timothy B. Hurst — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:34:29 +0000

New investment tax credit of up to $4k to grow small turbine industry

Last week’s well-publicized economic bailout package, included several “sweeteners” to help it through the House. Extended were the tax credits for solar, wind, and geothermal as well as tax credits for green building and energy efficiency. But what also passed was a new federal-level investment tax credit for qualified small wind turbines. The ITC is valued at $500/.5kw capacity for up to $4,000 and available for small and micro-wind turbines (up to 100kw), including vertical-axis wind turbines, installed through 2016.