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| 2010-06-16 | |
| In February 2010, the Obama administration announced that it would help finance two new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power station in Georgia, offering an $8.33 billion loan guarantee to Georgia Power (a subsidiary of Southern Company) and two other companies invested in the project. President Obama claimed that the investment was necessary to create clean energy jobs, stimulate our economy to export homegrown technology instead of importing foreign oil, and secure the future of our planet and our civilization by fighting the growing threat of global warming. However, this loan is an expensive gamble on a technology with a long history of bankrupting utilities and soaking ratepayers. | |
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| 2010-05-26 | |
| Solar power can curb pollution, protecting public health and North Carolina’s environment. It can also drive North Carolina’s economy forward – creating jobs that can’t be outsourced, and launching new companies to manufacture and install solar power equipment. | |
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| 2010-03-31 | |
| America is the largest consumer of energy in the world, and the majority of this energy comes from dirty and dangerous sources like coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power. Our continued reliance on these fuels contributes to global warming, undermines our energy independence, and costs American families and businesses more and more money every year. We can save money and help solve global warming by reducing the amount of energy we use, and the best place to start is in the buildings we live and work in every day. Over 40 percent of our energy—and 10 percent of all the energy used in the world – goes toward powering America’s buildings1, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Today’s high-efficiency homes and buildings prove that we have the technology and skills to drastically improve the efficiency of our buildings while simultaneously improving their comfort and affordability. If we apply those lessons to all buildings, we can reduce overall building energy consumption 35 percent by 2030 and 50 percent by 2050. | |
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| 2009-11-18 | |
| With sunlight on almost 250 days a year, solar energy is a real energy option for North Carolina. Based on rate of growth in solar installations experienced in other states and countries, North Carolina can install enough solar power over the next two decades to supply 2 percent of the state’s electricity by 2020, and 14 percent by 2030. | |
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| 2009-09-28 | |
| America’s dependence on fossil fuels wreaks havoc on our environment and is a drag on our economy. With a new president committed to tackling our energy challenges – and with the momentum generated by a decade of clean energy innovation at the state level – Congress has taken up the task of mapping out a new energy future for the nation. | |
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| 2009-09-09 | |
| Charlotte, NC- -President Obama’s clean energy plan would save North Carolina households $373 each year and create 16,800 sustainable jobs statewide over the next twenty years, according to a new report released today by Environment North Carolina, written by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The report, "Energy Efficiency in the American Clean Energy Security Act of 2009: Impacts of Current Provisions and Opportunities to Enhance the Legislation," showed that North Carolina stands to gain more jobs that 40 other states if the bill becomes law. | |
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| 2009-06-25 | |
| This report offers a glimpse of how cities and counties around the state plan to use the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program to invest in solar technologies, featuring Cary, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, and Mecklenburg County. | |
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| 2009-01-13 | |
| Cleaner buses, solar-powered lighting fixtures, energy-efficient municipal buildings, and other similar green investments will serve as the cornerstone of the federal economic stimulus package—that is, if clean energy advocates get their way. Alone, these types of projects could create or sustain more than 3 million jobs across the country, according to a new Environment North Carolina report released today. | |
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| 2008-11-11 | |
| Across the country, Americans are hurting. From the big cities of the coasts to the industrial heartland to our rural communities, the slumping economy is taking its toll in shuttered businesses, disappearing jobs, bankruptcies, foreclosures and an increased sense of anxiety about our collective future. | |
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| 2008-07-01 | |
| America is the largest consumer of energy in the world. Almost half of the energy we use — 10 percent of the energy in the world — powers our buildings. Most of this energy comes from burning fossil fuels. | |
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| 2007-12-05 | |
| A report developed by the Renewable Energy Policy Project clearly demonstrates, a major commitment to renewable electric generation will reduce our national security exposure, stabilize climate and provide a multi-billion dollar investment and reindustrialization program that will lead to new job growth in North Carolina. | |
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| 2007-11-19 | |
| Legislation to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars and trucks was included in the Senate energy bill (H.R. 6) that was passed in June of this year, marking the first time in over thirty years that either House of Congress has passed an increase in CAFE standards. The Senate CAFE would raise gas mileage standards for cars and trucks from 27.5 miles per gallon (mpg) and 22.2 mpg respectively to 35 mpg by 2020. This would save North Carolina consumers $836 million dollars at the pump in 2020, reduce oil consumption by 38,219 barrels per day in 2020 and having global warming emissions equivalent to taking 462,320 cars off the road in 2020. | |
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| 2007-11-14 | |
| States are leading the way toward a new energy future that is healthier for the environment and America’s economy. Over the past decade, states have enacted a variety of policies to encourage more efficient use of energy, increase the use of clean renewable energy, and reduce the environmental impact of energy use. | |
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| 2006-09-27 | |
| America has the technological know-how and the resources to move away from dependence on oil and other fossil fuels and toward a cleaner, more secure New Energy Future. | |
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| 2005-12-21 | |
| In the wake of this year's high gasoline prices, North Carolina consumers will pay $275 million more than they should at the gas pump in 2006 because of shortsighted automobile fuel economy policies, according to a new report. | |
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