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In Focus: Smarter Parking Management
If you drive in this city, you’ve probably been in one of these two situations: One, too cheap to pay for parking, you go to a side street and take advantage of one-hour free parking. But having stayed a little longer than an hour, you find a $30 ticket on your windshield. Two, en route [...]
What Clean Energy Bubble?
There was a clever headline in the satirical newspaper The Onion last week that wouldn’t be so humorous if it wasn’t true. “300 Million Without Electricity In India After Restoration Of Power Grid,” the headline read. The article was referring to the massive power outage across India last Tuesday that cut electricity to 670 million [...]
Top 10 Reasons Clean Coal is Dirty
According to the Washington Examiner yesterday, President Obama’s campaign team is going “on the offensive to promote [the President's] support for clean coal.” I am not sure if the article is using “offensive” in the appropriate way when it comes to talking about clean coal. Clean coal is nothing more than a made up marketing phrase that author Jeff [...]
Obama’s ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Plan
Perhaps more than any other sitting U.S. President, Barack Obama has been Commander in Chief through some of the most obvious examples of what climate change will do to America. The last few weeks alone have given us severe droughts in some areas of the country while others have seen unprecedented flooding; The state of [...]
Mitt Romney: He Flip Flops on Environmental Issues, Too
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the overall environmental issues that are facing the U.S., mostly as a part of coordinated attacks by politicians in Washington. In the next few articles, we’ll take a look at what each candidate has said or done in regards to both environmental and energy issues. At this [...]