This week’s Midwest Energy News covered everything from the oil and gas industries’ synonym search for “fracking” and the impact of mercury on a bat’s ability to avoid wind turbines.
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Across the country, TV meteorologists are denying climate change, and they’re often the main source of climate information for average Americans.
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Clean Energy
Worldwide funding for clean energy hits $260 billion
Despite the worldwide financial crisis and a lack of political action on climate change, there’s some good news: global investment in clean energy has reached its highest amount ever at $260 billion.
View Full StoryFive ways to get involved in Minnesota’s legislative process
Since Minnesota’s session is only a few months long each year, now’s the perfect time to get familiar with elected leaders, the legislative process, and the issues policy makers will address this year.
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Minnesotans join together to promote healthy, efficient schools
Do you want a healthier school environment for your kids, one that improves their learning environment, boosts test scores, and decreases missed school days? What if schools could save money at the same time?
View Full StoryThe state of the union: Energy efficiency
Are individual states making any progress on energy efficiency? We look at the big picture.
View Full StoryThe energy we don’t use
Of all currently available energy resources, one stands alone when it comes to affordability, clean power, and job creation. That resource? Efficiency.
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Is your TV meteorologist denying climate change?
Across the country, TV meteorologists are denying climate change, and guess what? They’re often the main source of climate information for average Americans.
View Full StoryEPA maps out the country’s main global warming culprits
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency released a new tool that gives you access to detailed information on the country’s biggest carbon polluters.
View Full StoryForum: A conversation with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
1.17.2011 // You’re invited to a presentation and audience conversation with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson as she discusses the role of science in decision making, protecting our health, promoting a healthy economy, as well as recent challenges to environmental laws.
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How would you respond to $4 or $5 gas?
Coming off a year that saw record-breaking gasoline prices, analysts are predicting that some regional gas prices may flirt with the $4 or $5 mark as early as this summer.
View Full StoryDayton’s bonding proposal includes Southwest Light Rail Transit line
Minnesota’s Southwest Light Rail Transit line—planned to connect downtown Minneapolis with Eden Prairie and expected to carry 30,000 riders a day by 2030—just got an important $775 million boost from Governor Mark Dayton’s proposed bonding bill.
View Full StoryEnergy 101: Electric vehicles
How do you reduce your crippling dependence on a powerful, long-entrenched monopoly energy supplier? That’s the question the U.S. auto industry found itself facing in 2008, when the price of gasoline topped $4 a gallon.
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