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Guest Blog: Out with the Good, In with the Bad? Don't Let ABQ City Councilors Scrap 2009 Energy-Saving Building Code!
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Democracy for New Mexico
Maintain nuclear safeguards, support clean energy, public interest groups ask
Public interest, environmental and faith groups, along with local clean energy and agricultural businesses, have joined in asking the state legislature and Gov. Scott Walker to maintain state laws safeguarding nuclear power reactors and focus the state’s energy policy on clean, renewable energy.
“Wisconsin has an opportunity to be a leader in the clean energy economy. We know that you care about creating family-supporting jobs, protecting the health of our citizens, and sustaining our natural resources. We do as well. We urge you to oppose any bills that weaken or eliminate Wisconsin's cost and waste safeguards for nuclear reactors, and support energy policies that help us realize our clean energy potential,” the letter, with 16 signers, said.
Noting that Wisconsin’s three operating nuclear reactors were all built in the 1970s, the organizations said that despite extensions of their operating licenses, the reactors’ operational lifetime is limited.
Maintain nuclear safeguards, support clean energy, public interest groups ask
Public interest, environmental and faith groups, along with local clean energy and agricultural businesses, have joined in asking the state legislature and Gov. Scott Walker to maintain state laws safeguarding nuclear power reactors and focus the state’s energy policy on clean, renewable energy.
“Wisconsin has an opportunity to be a leader in the clean energy economy. We know that you care about creating family-supporting jobs, protecting the health of our citizens, and sustaining our natural resources. We do as well. We urge you to oppose any bills that weaken or eliminate Wisconsin's cost and waste safeguards for nuclear reactors, and support energy policies that help us realize our clean energy potential,” the letter, with 16 signers, said.
Noting that Wisconsin’s three operating nuclear reactors were all built in the 1970s, the organizations said that despite extensions of their operating licenses, the reactors’ operational lifetime is limited.
Corporate Fleets Beginning to Go Electric
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Progressive86
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Cross-posted from Sierra Club Compass
(Contributed by Gina Coplon-Newfield)
At the recent AltWheels Fleet Day conference in Norwood, Mass., I had the opportunity to take a ride in fleet operator Derek Taveres's giant Frito-Lay delivery truck that runs on 100 percent electricity. With 176 all-electric trucks made by Smith Electric, Frito-Lay currently operates one of the largest corporate fleets of electric delivery trucks in the nation. Gino Porter, Frito-Lay's Northeast Regional Fleet Manager, told me that it only costs 13 cents a day in electricity to power each vehicle as compared to about $300 per truck per week for their gasoline-powered trucks. With those savings, even with the money spent on the vehicles and the charging units, Porter said the return on investment is fast.
I asked why Pepsico, which owns Frito-Lay, doesn't use electric delivery trucks for Pepsi. Porter and his colleagues said that there are likely two reasons: 1.
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fake consultant
I’m going to be really honest with you: after all the fights at the mall to get just the right present for everybody and the giant hassle of going to the Post Office so I can get the perfect stamps for my cards – and then worrying that I left someone off the list – I am just not in the mood to do a 9/11 story.
And it’s been getting worse every year. I mean, just like the “It’s Christmas Every Day Store”, I know there’s one of the “9/11 Every Day” stores open, in the all-too-human form of Rudy Giuliani, and I’ve learned to live with that, but it seems like they got started with the 9/11 earlier than ever this year – and by the time the TV memorials and analysis and retrospectives are all over, to paraphrase Lewis Black…I’m going to hate freedom.
In an effort to stave off this fate, we’ll be headed in a different direction today: I have three stories to pass along; each is important enough that you really should know about them, and yet they’re each very much bite-sized and easily digestible.
It’s all good stuff…so let’s get right to it.
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