Tag: wind energy
Citizens put renewable energy on this year’s ballots Across several states,...
The fossil fuel-friendly Trump administration has been busy rolling back environmental regulations and opening millions of acres of public land to oil and gas...
Senate sides with oil subsidies while hopes for wind energy tax...
If you hear someone laughing the next time you fill your car with gasoline, look around and see if you can't spot an oil executive on his way to the bank.
Wind power credit stalls in Senate, again
Another attempt to extend a tax credit that helps keep wind turbines turning in Colorado and beyond failed in the Senate on Tuesday.
Lamborn’s excuses blowing in the wind while Polis sets sights on...
Asked why he was Colorado's lone congressional holdout in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn answered his "preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal regulations and mandates as opposed to carving out special interests in the tax code.”
Hickenlooper names wind energy executive as new head of GEO
The administration of governor-elect John Hickenlooper Friday named Denver-based wind energy executive Tanuj “TJ” Deora the new director of the Governor’s Energy Office, created by Gov. Bill Ritter in 2007 to facilitate the state’s burgeoning “New Energy Economy.”
Frazier ad says one thing: facts say another
If people look to television advertising to decide how to vote, we’re in trouble. Still, someone must think that at the very least the...
Xcel releases clean energy report touting SmartGrid, SolarTAC, Solar Rewards
Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest electric utility with 1.3 million customers, released its annual Corporate Responsibility Report for 2009 on Thursday, touting several green energy...
Udall, Bennet tout stimulus funding of new wind project in NE...
A 30-megawatt wind-energy project in northeastern Colorado with the potential to expand to 650 megawatts will get $2.5 million in stimulus funds, according to...
Estonian energy firm wants to site windmills atop oil-shale ash fields
Estonia, a nation ravaged by unchecked oil shale production and its environmental consequences, according to international studies, has finally hit on a greener use...
Everything but the trail maps: Vail Resorts to go paperless
Vail Resorts on Monday announced a green initiative to dramatically reduce its $1-million-a-year annual paper budget, but for now will keep printing trail maps...