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Al Gore, still energized
Al Gore hails from Tennessee, but when he comes to California next week, he'll be coming back to his spiritual home. In 2000, Californians gave him a double-digit lead — 1.3 million votes — over George W. Bush for president. His documentary,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, George W. Bush, YouTube, Renewable Energy, Academy Awards
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Energy Secretary Chu to step down
WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he is leaving the Obama administration, ending a tenure marked by active development of alternative energy that won plaudits from environmentalists and drew attacks from conservatives, especially after the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Jennifer Granholm, Renewable Energy, Politics, Government
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Al Gore's sale to Big Oil not a blow to climate crusade
Former Vice President Al Gore is used to taking pot shots from the right, and he's getting peppered with them lately following his decision to sell his unpopular Current TV network to Al Jazeera, the Middle Eastern news channel still vilified by many...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Qatar, Matt Lauer, Jon Stewart, Global Change
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Hawaii sets 'breakthrough' framework for new solar power
Hawaii’s love affair with rooftop solar energy has turned into a gold rush. In 2012, as many permits for new solar units were issued on the island of Oahu alone as in the entire state over the last decade. That, inevitably, has led to gridlock....
Tags: Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Business, Energy Saving, Hawaiian Electric Company Incorporated
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Innovative home products hit the showroom floor
In the market for a hot-water-dispensing refrigerator? That was just one of the innovative and unusual products on display this week at the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas. The annual event, put on by the National Assn. of Home Builders,...
Tags: Kohler Company, General Electric Company, Annapolis
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Letters: Go solar, DWP
Re "DWP will buy excess solar energy," Jan. 12 Well it's about time. But why should the L.A. Department of Water and Power limit the amount of solar energy it will buy from customers through 2016 to 100 megawatts? Why not buy all the solar power...Tags: Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy
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SolarCity shares soar 59% in debut after rocky IPO journey
Bay Area clean-tech company SolarCity Corp. had an uncertain path to its initial public offering, delaying and adjusting the size of its debut this week, but the stock was off to a running start Thursday in its first day of trading. The share price...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Initial Public Offerings, Renewable Energy, Hybrid Vehicles
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SolarCity slashes IPO share price, boosts size of offering
SolarCity Corp. expanded the size of its highly anticipated initial public offering but knocked down the share price in what analysts said was a bid to boost investor demand. The San Mateo company said in a Wednesday filing with the Securities and...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Initial Public Offerings, Solyndra LLC, Renewable Energy, Financing and Stock Offerings
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SunPower, solar stocks surge after Warren Buffett buys Calif. plants
Solar stocks were burning up Thursday, led by a 41% share price boom for SunPower, which this week said it sold a pair of massive Southern California solar power plants to a Warren Buffett company. San Jose-based SunPower said in a filing with the...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Environmental Issues, SunPower Corp., Renewable Energy, Warren Buffett
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Letters: Illuminating solar
Re "Small-scale solar's big potential untapped," Dec. 29 The story touting the potential benefits of rooftop and other smaller solar power arrays was well written and informative. Now it's time to look under the rocks. The Times reports that the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Drugs and Medicines, Energy Saving, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Los Angeles DWP unveils solar power buyback program
L.A. NOWL.A. Department of Water and Power customers will be able to sell back excess solar energy created on rooptops and parking lots under a new program approved by the city utility's board of commissioners.... -
Lawmakers make plans to spend $2.5 billion in new energy funds
PolitiCalWith the passage of Proposition 39 this fall, California voters set aside $2.5 billion over the next five years for energy efficiency projects. Now, it’s up to the Legislature to spend the money. On Tuesday, Sen. Kevin DeLeon (D-Los Angeles)......
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