Energy & Environmental Policy

Solar “Mega-trap” Kills Birds at California Power Plant 0
- ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- May 5, 2014
Solar power generating facilities in Southern California have been dubbed “mega-traps” for their ability to attract and kill multiple species in a variety of manners including solar flux injury, also known as “singeing,” according to a report from the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory issued in April. “At times birds flew into the solar
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NREL Employee Threatens Reporter, Issues Internal Email About Threats To NREL 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Governing Bodies / Agencies, ENERGY - Legal
- April 23, 2014
From Watchdog.org: A secret government energy lab here went on heightened alert after one of its employees used Twitter to threaten mass murder against Watchdog reporters, according to internal memos and emails received under the Freedom of Information Act. But the added security measures utilized by the National Renewable Energy Lab weren’t to isolate and
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Colorado Green Schools 0
- ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- April 22, 2014
According to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Chipeda Elementary in Colorado’s Mesa Valley School District 51 is not simply a green school; it is in fact a green model for other schools.

The USGBC promotes Chipeda as a “case study” of what green schools can achieve in a range of areas, including reduction of environmental impact and lower energy use.1 The case study notes the school is more energy efficient and uses less water than other, comparable schools. Utility data, however, tells a different story. A look at the numbers shows the school actually uses more energy than do its peers.
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Colorado’s cruel approach to energy policy 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Legal, ENERGY - Preferred Energy, ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- February 25, 2014
By Amy Oliver Cooke “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun,” wrote environmental doomsday prophet Dr. Paul Ehrlich in 1975. That’s a cruel statement directed at people who simply want electric lights so their children can read at night, a refrigerator to keep food from
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