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House passes wilderness bill

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in wilderness | Comments Off

View of the existing San Jacinto Wilderness, looking toward the newly designated South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness (one of those ridges in the background.)  Photo by Larry Hogue From the Los Angeles Times: House passes bill to expand wilderness in 9 ...

Must-See Green TV

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in renewable energy | 1 Comment »

In his YouTube video op-ed, No Bailouts for Utilities, environmental journalist Marc Strassman takes on energy utilities' efforts to squash Feed-In Tariffs. These are the fair payments for solar we've blogged about here before. Feed-In Tariffs (also called Renewable Energy Payments) have allowed ...