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Questions Persist For Power Couple; Rep. Esty Returns More Campaign Funds
The Hartford CourantAn unusual cocktail of politics, electricity and matrimony gives a provocative flavor to the story of an environmental group's lawsuit over wind-turbine developers' illegal clear-cutting of 2.5 acres of state forest on Canaan Mountain in 2010. The suit...Tags: Renewable Energy, Colebrook, Republican Party, Elections, Elizabeth Esty
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Rep. Esty Gets Campaign Funds From Energy Industry Her Husband Regulates
The Hartford CourantU.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from people in the energy and environmental industries, which are regulated by her husband, Dan Esty, commissioner of the state Department of...Tags: Government, U.S. Congress, Renewable Energy, Colebrook, Republican Party
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Bats need trees as maternity wards, to save us from bugs
The abandoned Durham Iron Mine in upper Bucks County once belonged to William Penn and, in 1999, it served as the winter hibernation home for up to 17,000 bats, after they had dined on nearly 12 tons of airborne bugs in warmer months. Nine years later,...
Tags: Landforms, Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Agricultural Research and Technology, Endangered Species
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On Wall Street and In Connecticut, SolarCity Advances
The Hartford CourantLyndon Rive, founder and CEO of SolarCity Corp., was at the company's brand new Rocky Hill office just after 4 p.m. Thursday when Ed Steins, his Northeast regional vice president, read aloud the closing price of the company's shares on its first day of...Tags: Auction Service, Unemployment Benefits, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, Dannel P. Malloy
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How one man left the world a better place
My uncle, the inventor Stanford R. Ovshinsky, died a month short of his 90th birthday which fell over this Thanksgiving holiday. He was my dad's older brother. They worked together their entire lives not so much for the money but to try and solve the...Tags: Renewable Energy, Religion and Belief, Environmental Issues, Freedom of the Press, Labor Legislation
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Blown away by the attacks on wind-power subsidy
To hear business leaders and political candidates talk, proper industrial policy comprises only three elements: a fair tax system, a level playing field and "certainty." So why is it that all three are about to be thrown out the window as a sop to oil,...
Tags: Taxation, Renewable Energy, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Energy Resources
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Colebrook Wind Farm Opponents Lose, In a Flawed System
The Hartford CourantOpponents of the planned wind farms in Colebrook have lost their case in state Superior Court, as a judge said their claims that the six turbines, as tall as a 40-story building, would not unduly hurt the environment or harm the neighbors. The two...Tags: Landforms, Renewable Energy, Colebrook, Alternative Energy, West Hartford
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Wind turbine construction begins in Madison, Tipton Counties
In Madison County, there is something popping up in the fields along with this year's corn crop. Wind turbines are being planted across 81 square acres in Madison and Tipton Counties. "At the end of the day, they can show it to their parents, their kids,...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Indiana Michigan Power Company, Environmental Issues, Wind Power, Electricity Production and Distribution
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Green Jobs - Part 2
By CATHY J. LILLY Site administrator, Pennsylvania CareerLink Somerset County Where can you find green jobs? Green jobs can be found in many areas. Employers may not use traditional means to advertise openings. You may have to use other sources and...Tags: Media Industry, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Renewable Energy, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations
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Solar power customer hot about treatment
With alternative energy becoming more popular, you may be thinking a windmill or solar panels could save money on your electric bill. If you think that switching electric suppliers, too, might save you even more money, be aware you actually could end...
Tags: Media Industry, Renewable Energy, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Environmental Issues
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Has blazing a trail in solar energy cost California too much?
That ray of light you see peeking through all the clouds darkening California's future? That's the sun. More specifically, solar power, in which California is the hands-down national leader. The state's installed solar generating capacity of about 1.2...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Jerry Brown, Energy Saving
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No safety violations found in death of Ivy Tech teacher
The Indiana Department of Labor found there were no safety violations in the death of an Ivy Tech Community College teacher.
Craig Porter, 37, fell 65 feet from a tower on the Lafayette campus in early November. The tower is used to train students how...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Wind Power, Health
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