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Guest column: Clean energy would be a boon to Iowa
- Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (new window)
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2010-01-14 |
| Environment Iowa's analysis of investments in nuclear power concluded nuclear power is a wasteful, ineffective approach to the problem. It is a failing strategy that will actually set us back in the struggle to deal with a changing climate. Instead of building new nuclear reactors and instead of building more coal-fired power plants, we need to transition to clean energy. Iowa stands to benefit immensely in doing so. | |
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Guest column: Nuclear power not solution to global warming
- Cedar Rapids Gazette (new window)
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2009-12-13 |
| The Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council recently released its findings outlining the disastrous effects that rising global warming pollution will have on Iowa’s climate. Perhaps most alarming is the prediction that peak water flow in Iowa’s waterways will increase 50 percent by 2050, increasing flow and threatening Iowa’s cities and fields with more frequent and intense flooding. Clearly, swift action needs to be taken, both to anticipate the reality of our changing climate patterns and to prevent the worst effects of global warming. While smart, sensible solutions like energy efficiency, wind and solar are ready-to-go, proven ways to reduce our pollution, the nuclear energy industry has been quietly pushing for huge federal subsidies as part of a national clean energy and climate strategy and billing itself as the critical “solution to global warming.” The reality, though, is that nuclear power could barely make a dent in our global warming pollution in the next 20 years. | |
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Guest column: Moving toward clean energy will create jobs
- Des Moines Register (new window)
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2009-12-08 |
| President Barack Obama and former Gov. Tom Vilsack - now U.S. agriculture secretary - will attend the climate conference this week in Copenhagen to enlist nations around the world in an effort to meaningfully confront global climate change. Here in Iowa, the largest contribution to the climate problem is by far the carbon dioxide emitted by coal power plants. That coal continues to dominate our energy portfolio - generating three-fourths of our electricity - is a significant setback to any solution. Still, there has been notable progress as of late. Earlier this year, proposals to build two new plants in Marshalltown and Waterloo were scrapped. Building them would have been disastrous. Now, it's imperative that we clean up the coal plants that already exist. | |
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Public transit ridership up in Iowa, advocacy group says
- Quad City Times (new window)
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2009-09-23 |
| DES MOINES - Taking the bus has proved to be an energy saver for Iowa, according to an environmental group. Eric Nost of the Environment Iowa statewide citizen advocacy organization released a report Wednesday indicating that Iowans saved nearly 9 million gallons of gasoline by riding transit in record numbers during 2008. Nost said the energy savings from public transportation use were equal to the amount of gasoline consumed by 15,300 cars and contributed to reducing carbon dioxide pollution associated with global warming by an estimated 80,000 tons. | |
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New Energy Report
- WHO Newsradio 1040 (new window)
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2009-09-10 |
| A beefed-up energy bill may add "green jobs" to Iowa and reduce energy costs | |
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Energy efficiencies could cut consumer costs
- Mason City Globe Gazette (new window)
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2009-09-10 |
| More energy efficiency incentives could cut consumer energy costs, create “green” jobs and reduce pollution, advocates of enhanced federal measures said Thursday. Eric Nost of Environment Iowa was joined by two energy business representatives at a news conference to push for congressional approval of efforts to strengthen energy efficiency resource standard requiring utility companies to reduce their energy use by at least 10 percent by 2020 and other policy changes. | |
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Group Wants Clean Energy Pledges
- Des Moines Register (new window)
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2007-12-29 |
| A national environmental group at a Des Moines event Friday called on presidential candidates to push for energy conservation, "green" alternative energy and a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants. Environment America, which has an Environment Iowa branch in Des Moines, said the next president must make clean energy a top priority. The group listed clean-energy priorities it plans to push in Iowa, site of next week's presidential caucuses, and the early primary states. | |
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Energy legislation pending at the statehouse
- Iowa Public Radio (new window)
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2007-04-16 |
| Guests: Senator Rob Hogg of (D Cedar Rapids); Senator Jerry Behn (R Boone); advocate for Environment Iowa, Nathaniel Baer; and President of the Iowa Utility Association, Mark Douglas; | |
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Environmentalists fight for renewable energy requirements
- Mason City Globe Gazette
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2007-04-16 |
| A measure killed in the House Commerce Committee would have required so-called “merchant†coal plants, or energy wholesalers, either to generate, provide or purchase 8 percent of the capacity of the plant from renewable sources. | |
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Iowa House rejects renewable energy requirement for coal-fired power plants
- Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
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2007-04-15 |
| A measure killed in the House Commerce Committee would have required so-called "merchant" coal plants, or energy wholesalers, either to generate, provide or purchase 8 percent of the capacity of the plant from renewable sources. | |
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House panel kills renewable energy mandate
- Sioux City Journal
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2007-04-15 |
| A measure killed in the House Commerce Committee would have required so-called "merchant" coal plants, or energy wholesalers, either to generate, provide or purchase 8 percent of the capacity of the plant from renewable sources. | |
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Energy debate centers on coal-fired power plant
- Quad Cities Times
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2007-04-14 |
| A measure killed in the House Commerce Committee would have required so-called “merchant†coal plants, or energy wholesalers, either to generate, provide or purchase 8 percent of the capacity of the plant from renewable sources. | |
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Renewable energy measure taken out of House bill
- Ames Tribune
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2007-04-13 |
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Group urges moratorium on new coal-fired power plants
- Cedar Rapids Gazette
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2007-01-25 |
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"Clean Energy" Answer to Iowa's Pollution and Energy Costs
- All Headline News
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2007-01-02 |
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Clean energy policies bring jobs, savings, report says
- Des Moines Register (new window)
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2007-01-01 |
| Clean energy policies could save Iowa consumers more than $1 billion, create 5,000 jobs and cut fossil-fuel pollution by 2020, a nonprofit group said in new report. | |
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| 2006-12-22 | |
| The Iowa Public Interest Group, a consumer and public-health advocacy group, is organizing its environmental issues under a new banner, "Environment Iowa." | |
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Group seeks clean energy standard
- Cedar Rapids Gazette
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2006-12-21 |
| A coalition of environmental, public health, farm and religious groups today said they will push Iowa lawmakers next session to establish a clean energy standard that will require that 20 percent of Iowa's electricity come from renewable sources by 2020. | |
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Coalition calls for renewable power standard
- GazetteOnline
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2006-12-20 |
| 20 percent threshold sought by 2020 | |
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