Items by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Green Column: A Competitor Emerges for Solar Panels
Posted: April 4th, 2012, 8:56am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Proponents hope that combined heat and power systems in homes will one day compete with better-known technologies.
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Green Column: Should Plastic Bags Be Banned?
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:08am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Governments around the world are wrestling with the question of what, if anything, to do about plastic bags, and there are few figures to support any of the arguments.
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The Texas Tribune: New Texas Rule to Unlock Secrets of Hydraulic Fracturing
Posted: January 15th, 2012, 1:05am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Environmentalists and landowners in Texas will soon be able to go online and learn how much water has been used by oil and gas drillers in hydraulic fracturing.
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Green Column: Retreat of Glaciers Makes Some Climbs Tougher
Posted: December 26th, 2011, 1:50am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Mountaineers around the world find themselves forced to adjust to a warming world, as routes that were once ice have turned into unstable and unwelcoming rock.
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Green Column: Word Choice Matters for Energy Policy
Posted: July 10th, 2011, 8:44am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Terms like “clean,” “alternative,” “renewable,” “sustainable” and “green” may sound interchangeable, but they can mean different things.
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Green Column: Less Fuel Also Means Less Revenue
Posted: January 23rd, 2011, 9:16am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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For governments, the advent of electric cars means fuel-tax receipts will dwindle because drivers will buy less gasoline.
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Green Column: A Mundane Approach to a Vexing Problem
Posted: November 28th, 2010, 5:54pm EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Buildings account for about 40 percent of energy use in the United States and Europe because of the need for amenities like heating, cooling and lighting.
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Green Column: Plenty of Hype — and Questions — About Electric Cars
Posted: October 31st, 2010, 8:57am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Companies involved in the introduction of electric vehicles readily acknowledge that it is hard to predict how people will use their new cars.
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Green Column: Getting Past the Politics of Climate Change
Posted: October 4th, 2010, 3:10am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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U.N. climate talks in Tianjin, China, could help prepare for more discussions in Mexico at the end of the year.
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Green Column: Texas Clean Energy Hampered by Location
Posted: September 12th, 2010, 9:29am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Texas is by far the biggest producer of wind energy in the United States, but the industry is running into a significant constraint: There are too few transmission lines to carry the power.
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Green Column: U.S. Plays Catch-Up on High-Speed Rail
Posted: September 5th, 2010, 8:29am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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The United States has virtually no fast trains like those of China, Japan and Europe, but that could change. President Obama has said that rail transport is a priority.
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Green Column: Environmentalists Use Oil Spill as a Rallying Cry
Posted: June 13th, 2010, 11:00pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been declared the worst environmental catastrophe ever in the United States. And that could help American environmentalists in the long run.
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Rise of Wind Turbines Is a Boon for Rope Workers
Posted: December 25th, 2009, 1:43am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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A growing number of people who enjoy rock climbing are finding work inspecting, cleaning and repairing wind turbines.
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$1.4 Billion Oregon Wind Deal Announced
Posted: December 10th, 2009, 2:41pm EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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General Electric will supply wind turbines to what it says will be the nation's largest wind farm, in a deal announced on Tuesday.
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Green Inc. Column: Trimming the Costs of Wind Power
Posted: December 7th, 2009, 3:10am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Significant challenges remain before the wind-energy industry can achieve its potential, and chief among these is cost.
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Chinese Solar Panel Firm to Open Plant in Arizona
Posted: November 17th, 2009, 1:40am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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The solar panel manufacturer, the first Chinese solar company to build a plant in the United States, will initially hire 75 workers.
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Paying Extra for Green Power, and Getting Ads Instead
Posted: November 17th, 2009, 1:24am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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It is proving difficult to say exactly how customers’ voluntary payments for wind and solar power are actually used.
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Suntech to Open Plant in Arizona
Posted: November 16th, 2009, 12:26pm EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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China's largest solar panel manufacturer announced plans to open its first American plant, in the greater Phoenix area.
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Nike Quits Board of U.S. Chamber
Posted: October 1st, 2009, 1:02am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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The apparel and footwear company broke with the group over its climate policy.
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Utility Quits Alliance Over Climate Change
Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 10:09pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Pacific Gas and Electric, a major California utility, is withdrawing from the United States Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber’s approach to global warming.
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More Sun for Less: Solar Panels Drop in Price
Posted: August 26th, 2009, 9:13pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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More factories that make the material used in solar panels have opened, and the global demand for them has fallen.
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More Sun for Less: Solar Panels Drop in Price
Posted: August 26th, 2009, 9:13pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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More factories that make the material used in solar panels have opened, and the global demand for them has fallen.
NYT > Business
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More Sun for Less: Solar Panels Drop in Price
Posted: August 26th, 2009, 8:47pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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More factories that make the material used in solar panels have opened, and the global demand for them has fallen.
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Sustainability Field Booms on Campus
Posted: August 20th, 2009, 7:14am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Bob Gressens signed up for continuing education at two universities to learn more about clean technology.Universities and community colleges are responding to a demand from the public for degrees or ad hoc courses on sustainability.
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Green Inc. Column: A New Focus on Ocean Conservation
Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:32pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Conservationists are turning their attention toward the sea as development pressures mean less land contiguously available for protection.
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Green Inc.: Override of Palin Veto of Energy Funds
Posted: August 11th, 2009, 10:23am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Alaskan lawmakers override veto of stimulus money for energy efficiency.
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Green Inc. Column: Governments Can Promote Energy Efficiency
Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 8:45pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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What policies can help the world transform a vast environmental promise into reality? There is plenty of cause for pessimism.
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Efficiency Drive Could Cut Energy Use 23% by 2020, Study Finds
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 7:57pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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An investment of $520 billion in energy improvements could produce $1.2 trillion in savings on energy bills through 2020, a McKinsey study found.
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Slow, Costly and Often Dangerous Road to Wind Power
Posted: July 22nd, 2009, 7:46pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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As demand for clean energy grows, towns are finding their traffic patterns roiled by convoys carrying huge windmills.
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Pickens Scales Back Ambitious Wind Farm
Posted: July 7th, 2009, 9:01pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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As the recession hit, the plan was also hurt by a lack of transmission lines and a fall-off in the price of a rival energy source.
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Green Inc.: Pickens Drops Plan for Wind Farm
Posted: July 7th, 2009, 4:58pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oilman, has abandoned his plan to build the world’s largest wind farm in Texas, and will instead build a handful of smaller projects.
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Green Inc.: Clean Coal Project Revived in Illinois
Posted: June 12th, 2009, 1:08pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Abandoned by the Bush administration, a major project to capture and store carbon dioxide is being restarted, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced.
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As Wind Power Grows, a Push to Tear Down Dams
Posted: June 12th, 2009, 2:11am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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The rise of wind farms in the Pacific Northwest is seen by some as an opportunity to help save the wild salmon, by removing dams that have impeded their spawning.
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Here Comes the Sun. Right?
Posted: May 2nd, 2009, 3:03pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Despite the recession, a German solar company sees the United States as a promising market.
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E.P.A. Proposes Tracking Industry Emissions
Posted: March 11th, 2009, 1:47am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule that would require a broad range of industries to tally and report their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Preparing for a Flood of Energy Efficiency Spending
Posted: February 26th, 2009, 1:55am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Experts worry that cities aren’t ready to oversee the energy-efficiency money coming their way.
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Green Inc.: Wind Turbine Hit by U.F.O.
Posted: January 13th, 2009, 1:08pm EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Did a extraterrestrial spacecraft hit a wind turbine in England last week? The country is abuzz with speculation.
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Green Inc.: The Paper Towel Problem
Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:29am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Paper towels billowing out of bathroom dispensers is, for some environmentalists, a painful symbol of waste. Can anything be done about them?.
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Winter Cold Puts a Chill on Green Energy
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 9:49pm EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Many alternative energy sources like wind turbines and solar panels experience problems in cold weather.
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Winter Cold Puts a Chill on Green Energy
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 9:49pm EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Many alternative energy sources like wind turbines and solar panels experience problems in cold weather.
NYT > Business
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A. Carl Kotchian, Lockheed Executive, Dies at 94
Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 1:15am EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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The former president of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation was a central figure in a bribery scandal that rocked Japan and the Netherlands during the 1970s.
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Green Inc.: Turbine Traffic in Midwestern Towns
Posted: November 25th, 2008, 12:48pm EST by By KATE GALBRAITH
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What happens when truck carrying gigantic wind turbine rumble through small Midwestern towns?.
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Green Inc.: Energy Policy and ’08 Races
Posted: October 20th, 2008, 9:13am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Our list of interesting energy-related races around the country.
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Green Inc.: What About ‘Joe the Solar Guy?’
Posted: October 16th, 2008, 6:08pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Little new ground was broken on energy in the final presidential debate Tuesday night, but both candidates hammered away at their talking points on energy independence.
NYT > Business
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Solar Panels Are Vanishing, Only to Reappear on the Internet
Posted: September 24th, 2008, 12:57am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Solar power, with its promise of emissions-free renewable energy, boasts a growing number of fans. Some of them, it turns out, are thieves.
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Power From the Restless Sea Stirs the Imagination
Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 2:01am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Spurred by rising costs for electricity, energy visionaries are making a new push to overcome the barriers blocking ocean-power technology.
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Pickens Plan Stirs Debate, and Qualms
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 12:06am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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T. Boone Pickens Jr., the billionaire Texas oilman, has mounted a campaign to launch a national debate about the use of natural gas in cars and trucks.
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Climate Enters Debate Over Nuclear Power
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 12:07am EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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Environmental groups want to shut down Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, but closing it might mean the state would probably have to derive extra power from suppliers that use fossil fuels.
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In Vermont, a Debate Swirls Around an Aging Nuclear Plant
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 6:04pm EDT by By KATE GALBRAITH
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The proposed closing of the plant is bringing into sharp relief a conflict between two objectives long held by environmental advocates: combating nuclear power and stopping global warming.