A recent New York Times blog post from Kristina Shevory took a good look at what California’s failure to meet clean air standards has meant for the health of its residents–and its budget. Air pollution’s links to poor health and higher medical costs across the spectrum (personal, insurance, governmental) are behind federal regulations, and in [...]

Business leaders passionate about America’s clean energy economy converged in Washington today for the final stretch of advocacy group We Can Lead’s “Race for American Jobs: Clean Energy Leadership”. Participants along the way have included Fortune 500 executives (Best Buy, Nike, Starbucks, Levi Strauss, Jones Lang LaSalle and Stonyfield) as well as leaders from the clean [...]

Colorado’s commitment to clean energy may soon be second only to California’s. Late on Friday, the Colorado Senate passed a bill that would increase the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to 30 percent by 2020–California’s RPS is a neck ahead at 33 percent. Governor Bill Ritter is expected to sign the bill if/when the House [...]

I just returned from San Diego last night after a very interesting week listening to many of the pioneers of solar electric power at the ASES Solar 2008 Conference. Brad Collins, Executive Director of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) gave a very interesting talk about what he learned at the first World Future Energy [...]