Codes & Standards, Efficiency in Action, Law & Policy, Programs & Policy
The EPA Overturns a Key Trump Administration Ruling on Auto Emissions
Brian McCowan, Zondits staff, 4/13/2022 The EPA is reinstating the right of the State of California to set automobile fuel efficiency and emissions at a stricter standard than current federal regulations. Sixteen other states: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington, […]
auto emissions, California, carbon emissions, clean technology, fuel efficiency
Clean Grid Technology, Regulatory Affairs
Innovation vs. Mandates in the Energy Industry
Energy: technology and free markets beat mandates The Hill, May 4, 2016 Bill Gates is the latest prominent thinker to suggest that it is wrong to achieve our clean energy goals with a carbon tax, or even greater government intervention in the energy marketplace. Gates believes we would be better served by focusing on the […]
Bill Gates, clean technology, energy innovation, energy mandates, renewable energy
Clean Grid Technology, Renewables
Australian Team Pushed Solar Efficiency to World-Record 40%
UNSW’s solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. The world-beating efficiency was achieved in outdoor tests in Sydney, before being independently confirmed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at their outdoor test facility in the United States.
clean technology, renewable energy, solar, University of New South Wales, world record
Markets & Business, Markets & Trends
Clean Technology: Good for Innovation, Good for the Economy
Anti-greens often try to make economic arguments against the big spring-cleaning that our civilization is going through. How dare we invest in clean technology? Don’t we know that it’s bad for the economy! That all these green things will always be expensive, etc, etc…