As green stimulus programs have approached their end, in recent months there has been controversy over how many green jobs -- and of what kinds -- were created.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — An Irish company hoping to benefit from the Obama administration's emphasis on renewable energy purchased three Illinois wind farms ne...
AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 05.25.2011
GOLDEN, Colo. — The primary U.S. lab for renewable energy will receive $110 million in federal stimulus funds and another $83 million will go to...
AP | HILARY RUSS | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — For decades, the New Bedford Harbor was a dumping ground for industrial metals and other contaminants. But now that harbor ...
Mother Nature Network | Posted 05.25.2011
Yet President Barack Obama, intent on harnessing new technology to rebuild the devastated economy, made a last-minute allocation of $8 billion for hig...
Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon wants to make his city America's first carbon-neutral city. The stimulus money is flowing and he says that bum economy or no...
greenbiz.com | GreenerBuildings Staff, GreenerBuildingsPublished March 27, 2009 | Posted 05.25.2011
Of the $3.2 billion in block grant funds, $1.9 billion is to go to cities and counties; $770 million goes to states, which administer the money for co...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday the nation must move quickly to develop clean and innovative sources of energy after years of de...
wsj.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Even though Obama has approved tens of billions of dollars in direct grants, loans and loan guarantees for the renewable and transmission industries, ...
TPMDC | Elana Schor | Posted 05.25.2011
We've been talking about this for a while now, but mass transit is getting woefully little attention in the economic recovery proposals released so fa...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
Governments around the world have committed more than $200 billion toward technologies to cut dependence on fossil fuels, which should help keep green...
Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011
Shovel-ready is what everyone seems to want Obama's green stimulus plan projects to be. As in projects that are ready to go right now, today, 2009. As...
Green Inc. | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
More agencies are starting to spend their stimulus money. The Forest Service is spending on brush-clearing. They're not using my favorite method -- go...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
Green vs. greenbacks. It's a balance we've been told we have to accept. But somebody who knows a lot more about making greenbacks than the vast major...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's economic stimulus bill places emphasis on green spending, including catapulting the country's energy grid into its next generation -...
AP | MATT GOURAS | Posted 05.25.2011
HELENA, Mont. — The call for economic stimulus is having an unintended side effect in places like Montana, where environmental protections are o...
nytimes.com | KATE GALBRAITH | Posted 05.25.2011
Knoxville's timing is excellent. It began the arduous work of cataloguing deficiencies before the stimulus bill passed, and it is well along in planni...
solveclimate.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Usually, you will find Professor Daniel J.H. Greenwood teaching in a classroom at the Hofstra University School of Law. He's spent a good part of his ...
good.is | Ben Jervey | Posted 05.25.2011
"The most important high tech tool of the new green economy," Van Jones likes to say, often pausing for dramatic effect, "is the caulk gun." Not photo...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
So it's finally passed -- a huge chunk of money will be flowing to infrastructure projects that are supposed to be green in nature and reinvigorate a ...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
There's never enough of one thing: moderation. With the green light for green energy should come a warning -- there's a catch to everything. With el...
Grist | Posted 05.25.2011
Somebody in the capital must have seen those "Reality" ads where the kindly man in the construction helmet offers a tour of a clean coal facility, onl...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate's revised stimulus bill provides $2 billion in funding for a high-speed rail corridor, as well as another $1.1 billion to upgrade existing ...
Grist | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama also talked up the need for energy investments in his opening remarks. "More than 90 percent of the jobs created by this plan will be in the pri...
Peter Brown and Geoff Garver | Posted 05.25.2011
The evidence is everywhere that continued dedication to 'economic growth,' per se, will destroy the Earth's ability to provide a healthy home for most life forms.
Mason Inman | Posted 11.16.2011