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Clean energy, green economy!

American ingenuity, investment and hard work have created fledgling clean energy industries, such as wind and solar power, that are not only helping solve global warming and America’s energy problems—they’re creating thousands of good jobs that boost our economy.
 
Government support of clean energy has started to level the playing field with coal, oil, gas and nuclear power, but if ExxonMobil and its friends on Capitol Hill get their way, the federal government will pull back on its commitment to a clean energy economy—just as we’re about to reap the environmental and economic benefits. More… 

Our Latest Reports

On the Rise: Solar Thermal Power and the Fight Against Global Warming 5/08/2008

Concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies - which use the sun's heat to generate electricity - can make a large contribution toward reducing global warming pollution and do so quickly and at a reasonable cost.

When it Rains, It Pours: Global Warming and the Rising Frequency of Extreme Precipitation in the United States 12/04/2007

Scientists have said for years that global warming was “loading the dice” when it comes to increasing the frequency of severe storms, and a new Environment Florida report makes it clear that the Sarasota-Bradenton area is already experiencing extreme downpours much more frequently. Specifically, this new report finds that storms with heavy rainfall are now 95% percent more frequent in the Sarasota-Bradenton area than they were 60 years ago.