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Peter Neill | Posted 05.13.2013 | Green
Peter Neill

In all the recent talk about alternative energy, solar and wind initiatives have been advantageous enough for government, venture capitalists, and ind...

Is This The Key To Offshore Wind?

Posted 05.01.2013 | Green

From EarthTechling's Pete Danko: Offshore wind power, attractive for so many reasons but right now rather expensive, could get another notch in its...

Celebrating a Huge Offshore Wind Victory in Maryland

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 03.20.2013 | Green
Mary Anne Hitt

The winds of change brought some great progress to Maryland this week when the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013 passed through both houses of...

Better Choices, Better Results: Moving Maryland Towards Wind Power

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 05.19.2013 | Green
Gov. Martin O'Malley

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth, this too, is a choice.

Tom Zeller Jr.

Failure To Launch: Cape Wind's Long Drift

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 03.01.2013 | Green

In 2001, Jim Gordon, a well-heeled developer of natural gas plants in New England, took up a long-discussed but never-pursued idea that advocates said...

Obama for the Oceans: What the President Can Do in His Second Term for People Who Depend on the Oceans

Ted Danson | Posted 04.16.2013 | Green
Ted Danson

Despite the political gridlock that still binds Congress, the Obama administration can make substantial improvements to the health of the ocean on its own -- improvements that spur our economy, and restore and protect abundant oceans.

Clean Energy Continues to Break Records, Lead the Way

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 04.08.2013 | Green
Mary Anne Hitt

Here are two headlines from the past week that blew me away (no pun intended):#1- Wind was the top new energy source to come online in 2012.#2- "Renew...

ICYMI: IPCC Leaks, Shell's Woes And The Economics of Nature

Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 03.11.2013 | Green
Tom Zeller Jr.

Top Read: Why The Economy Needs Nature, by Tony Juniper at The Guardian. "Nature is not a drag on growth," he writes. "Its protection is an unavoidabl...

Don't Let Wind Power Fall Off the Fiscal Cliff

Margie Alt | Posted 02.16.2013 | Green
Margie Alt

Encouraging American wind energy should be a no-brainer for anyone who values a clean environment. But in a mere 14 days, these urgently needed incentives and the benefits they bring could expire once again.

U.S. Plans First Offshore Wind Lease Auctions

Posted 12.04.2012 | Green

From EarthTechling's Pete Danko: The long, complex process of developing wind power off the U.S. Atlantic coast took another lurch forward late las...

U.S. Approves Lease For Delaware Wind Project

Reuters | Posted 12.24.2012 | Green

By Scott DiSavino Oct 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) granted a lease for an offshore wind farm off the coast of Delaware ...

Will U.S. See Offshore Wind By 2014?

Posted 10.06.2012 | Green

From Earth Techling's Pete Danko: While Cape Wind in Massachusetts -- still at least two years from beginning ocean construction -- can surely clai...

What's Holding Back South Carolina's Offshore Wind Development?

AP | BRUCE SMITH | Posted 11.13.2012 | Green

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Developing wind energy is important to South Carolina's economy and environment even though lower natural gas prices and the...

A Good Move for Wind

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 09.08.2012 | Green
Mary Anne Hitt

As we continue to retire aging dirty coal plant after aging dirty coal plant nationwide (we just hit 112 coal plants secured to retire), we are also pushing hard to replace them with clean energy, and as little natural as possible.

Trump Says Wind Turbines Will Hurt Environment After Bulldozing Rare Birds' Home

AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 04.26.2012 | Green

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- He came, he saw, he blustered. Donald Trump on Wednesday swept into Scotland's parliament to demand the country end plans for ...

Ocean Planning Would Bring Billions of Dollars of Economic Benefits, New Study Confirms

Sarah Chasis | Posted 06.06.2012 | Green
Sarah Chasis

With our oceans contributing more to our nation's economic output than the entire U.S. farm sector, we can't afford to just cross our fingers and hope for the best.

Baltimore Could Be Offshore Wind Hub

AP | Posted 02.29.2012 | DC

BALTIMORE -- A study produced for the Maryland Energy Administration says Baltimore has the potential to become a hub for offshore wind power companie...

2 New England Utilities Agree To Buy Offshore Wind Power

AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 04.17.2012 | Green

BOSTON (AP) — Energy companies Northeast Utilities and NStar have agreed to buy more than a quarter of the power produced by the long-planned Cape W...

Offshore Wind Activists an Unmatched Force at Maryland General Assembly Opener

Keith Harrington | Posted 03.13.2012 | Green
Keith Harrington

If measured by the turnout at the rally at the Annapolis state house yesterday, of all the issues confronting the Maryland General Assembly, offshore wind power enjoys the most energetic public support.

The Real Meaning of "Smart Power"

Brian Keane | Posted 01.09.2012 | Green
Brian Keane

When I picked up my copy of this week's Time magazine, I was momentarily stopped in my tracks by Massimo Calabresi's cover story: "Hillary Clinton and the Rise of Smart Power."

Merger May Impact Nation's 1st Offshore Wind Farm

AP | By JAY LINDSAY | Posted 11.27.2011 | Green

BOSTON -- The nation's first offshore wind farm enjoys high-profile federal and state backing, but it hasn't been able to win over one important party...

'Environmentalist' Trump Angry Over Wind Farms Near Golf Resort

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 10.12.2011 | Green

When Donald Trump first dreamt about building his $1.6 billion golf complex off the beautiful coast of Scotland, offshore wind farms weren't part of h...

Koch Brothers Declare War on Offshore Wind

Keith Harrington | Posted 09.20.2011 | Green
Keith Harrington

The war over America's coastal-energy future has officially begun, and the result could determine whether we see wind turbines or catastrophic oil spills along our coastlines in coming years.

Offshore Wind and Economic Development: How Utility Law Could Help

Lewis Milford | Posted 09.19.2011 | Green
Lewis Milford

It is hard to imagine a new angle on the Cape Wind project. However, one item that deserves some attention: jobs and what the Massachusetts utility regulator's decision to approve the project means for new energy technology.

Feds Eyeing More Wind Farms Off MA Coast

AP | STEVE LeBLANC | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

BOSTON — The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Tuesday began seeking proposals from developers that want to build commercial wind far...