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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Show-me the renewables Missourians to vote on renewable energy ballot initiative in November	Adam Browning	01 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Renewable things are happening in the heartland. Ohio passed a renewable portfolio standard in the spring, and Michigan did the same a few weeks ago. Renewable activists in Missouri recently qualified a renewable energy standard -- Proposition C -- for the ballot, and this week the Kansas City Star endorsed the effort. The measure calls for a relatively modest 15 percent renewable standard by 2021, but the lessons from Colorado's Amendment 37 are worth keeping in mind ...
Topics: renewable energy, energy, Missouri, state politics, politics, utilities (all these topics)

Union of the states America's governors unite to plead for extension of renewable tax credits	David Roberts	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Today, 50 governors -- if you're counting, that's all of them -- sent a letter to Congress [PDF] asking that the tax credits for renewable energy be extended by at least five years: Renewable energy plays an important role in our nation's energy security, and governors have pioneered a wide array of innovative energy policies in their states. To supplement state efforts, governors support the development of federal tax incentives, including clean renewable energy bo ...
Topics: energy, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Restating the obvious: Coal isn't renewable Alaska state legislature proposes fund to support alternative energy including coal	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Alaska has proposed a $21 billion fund (Greenwire, $ub. req'd), which uses oil surpluses to support alternative energy projects, including: wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal, biomass and a plant that 'produces ultraclean fuels from coal.' State Rep. Les Gara (D-Anchorage) responds: Coal is not renewable energy and by any fair definition it's not really alternative energy Sounds controversial!
Topics: Alaska, energy, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

RPS distribution	David Roberts	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Check out this map (click for a larger version). It shows states with renewable portfolio standards in orange. A swath of white goes from the southeast to the upper midwest. Tells you quite a bit about the political playing field on clean energy and how it maps to party. Taken from Senate EPW cmte. testimony from Dan Kammen, Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, 25 Sep. 2007
Topics: energy, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Buckeyes on solar Renewable energy standard passed in Ohio	Adam Browning	24 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Ohio gets 87 percent of its electricity from coal (and the rest is mostly nukes), putting it in the upper echelon of coal-using states in the nation (No. 2 behind Texas, to be precise). And that, friends, is about to change, because yesterday the Ohio Legislature passed a renewable energy standard requiring utilities to provide 12.5 percent of Ohio's electricity from clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2025. This bill has a solar-specific require ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Ohio, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

MO-mentum The push for a renewable energy standard in Missouri	Adam Browning	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Know why they call Missouri the 'Show Me' state? Me neither. What I do know is that our friends at Renew Missouri are trying to show the state some renewable energy. They've written language for a 15 percent renewable portfolio standard, but in order to get it on the ballot in November, they need to collect 150,000 signatures by May 4. It's an important battle in the heartland, so if you can, donate your time or money here.
Topics: energy, Missouri, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Maryland keeps getting greener State's governor pursuing clean energy and GHG reductions	Joseph Romm	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has prioritized clean energy policy and aims to reduce the state's energy consumption 15 percent by 2015. In addition, Maryland is a part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities. With those goals topping the governor's agenda, Maryland's Senate chambers ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Maryland, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Lemonade Spitzer's successor may continue doing good for green	Adam Browning	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Snark aside, the ascension of the former Lt. Gov. David Paterson could very well mean good things for environmental progress. He recently chaired the state's Renewable Energy Task Force, which recently recommended an increase in the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard. As he comes in without a direct voter mandate and has to deal with a fairly acrimonious legislative environment, what better way to establish a popular mandate than adopt something super popular -- sa ...
Topics: energy, New York, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

25x25 Oregon Gov. signs tough new renewable standard	David Roberts	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Kudos to Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who this week signed one of the nation's toughest renewable portfolio standards: the state's biggest utilities must deliver 25% of their power from renewable sources by 2025.
Topics: energy, Oregon, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Some good news for a change, albeit with an albeit Oregon blazes a trail again, mostly	JMG	24 May 2007	Gristmill
The Oregon House passed an aggressive renewable electricity supply standard that requires the biggest utilities in the state to get 25 percent of their capacity from renewables (not including existing hydro) by 2025. The state Senate already passed the companion bill, and the Oregon governor, Ted Kulongoski, has been pushing these all year, so they are widely expected to pass after the two bills are reconciled into one. But ...The downside to these bills are that the "25 ...
Topics: energy, Oregon, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

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