By Jeff Kart •
June 2, 2009
Right now, there’s no wind in the Great Lakes, but lots of talk.
There’s a bit of money, too, totaling about $100,000 from the federal stimulus package, aka the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The Great Lakes Commission has been granted $99,740 to develop a set of “Best Practices to Accelerate Wind Power in the Great Lakes and Beyond.”
The end result will be a guide to what works and what doesn’t when it comes to protecting the environment, being sensitive to community concerns and … building wind turbines in the water.
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 24, 2009
Many users of mass transit who can now save up to $1,000 a year or more on their transit commute. This represents a potential $440 a year increase in what they can save currently.
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 23, 2009
When members of Congress sat down to hammer out the final details on the economic stimulus package, President Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel greatly upped the ante for high-speed rail, asking House-Senate negotiators for $10 billion — far more than either bill had allotted.
By Jennifer Lance •
February 23, 2009
Thanks to the Bush administration, the current US deficit is over $1 trillion (not including the economic stimulus package). Obama plans to cut this deficit in half by 2013. Obama will let Bush’s tax cuts for individuals who make $250,000 or more a year expire in 2010. As far as troop withdrawal from Iraq, Obama estimates this would save about $90 billion a year, although some of this savings may be deferred to increasing troops in Afghanistan.
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 19, 2009
In a move to expand its national reach, GroSolar announced plans Thursday to acquire Borrego Solar Systems’ residential solar installation business. With the acquisition, groSolar will emerge as the fourth-largest residential solar power installer in the United States. The company’s acquisition comes at a time when the industry is poised to reap the benefits of the economic stimulus’ eight-year extension of the solar tax credits.
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 18, 2009
A featured guest post by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on the city’s important first step toward creating the electric vehicle infrastructure of the future.
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 17, 2009
Highlighting the renewable energy components of the stimulus package, President Obama said in Denver on Tuesday that the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was not the end of the economic downturn, but rather the beginning of the end.
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 16, 2009
President Obama thanked Congress for passing his Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act that would, among other things, make important infrastructural investments in renewable energy, broadband, and a smart grid.
By Joe Mohr •
February 13, 2009
With $62.2 billion of the latest Economic Stumulus Package slated for environmental initiatives the days of the Big Oil and Big Coal “Fat Cats” are numbered…
By Matt Embrey •
February 12, 2009
The conservative blogosphere, led by up and coming right wing-nut Michelle Malkin have been frantically pushing to label the stimulus package the “Generational Theft Bill,” and impressionable republican’s on the hill are echoing this ill-conceived branding quip. Generational Theft? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 11, 2009
For those of you who watched President Obama’s first-ever prime time press conference you may have seen a display of thoughtful, critical answers to questions from the White House press corps unlike anything we have seen over the last eight years; but Bill O’Reilly didn’t see it that way.
