This Week: Silicon Valley Bike Summit, Bikes on Caltrain, Climate GoalsStreetsblog San Francisco (blog)Tuesday Silicon Valley Bike Summit. This is the 7th annual meeting of the Silicon Valley’s largest gathering of active transportation leaders and organizers from government, law enforcement, non-profits, and the public. Tuesday, August 8, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. …

Bustle Challenging Trump, Jerry Brown Announces Global Climate Summit in CaliforniaGoverningGov. Jerry Brown sought Thursday to bolster his position as America’s de facto climate czar, urging the world to defy President Trump and join him in San Francisco next year for a “climate action summit.” In a prerecorded video address to the Global …Emmanuel Macron…

Renewable energy adds jobsBillings GazetteIt is heartening to see that $4.6 million has been given to 1,700 coal industry workers in Eastern Montana. The biome of Eastern Montana is mostly semi-arid plains, making it an excellent area for concentrated solar power farms. This sustainable solar …

Washington Examiner Green pressure campaign against banks is imperiling our energy infrastructureWashington ExaminerIf President Trump wants to succeed in office, he needs to preside over robust job creation. And a critical component of his administration’s job creation initiative lies in investment in America’s natural resources and energy production. In large part …

CNBC Here’s how Carl Icahn’s bet on Donald Trump went terribly wrongCNBCCarl Icahn and CVR Energy made a bet that prices for biofuel credits would fall. The plan initially paid off, but prices for the credits have risen nearly 200 percent from their February low. The wager left CVR Energy with a nearly $280 million…

Forbes The News Media Finally Notices Trump’s Energy Policy Sea ChangeForbesUS President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on August 4, 2017, at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland as he travels on a 17-day vacation to Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read …

GreenBiz Salesforce blesses San Francisco’s clean energy programGreenBizSoftware giant Salesforce, the largest employer in San Francisco, is switching two of its high-rise office buildings in the City by the Bay to 100 percent renewable wind and solar energy via a local community choice aggregation program. The company is …

The Verge Solar eclipse 2017: what you need to knowThe VergeNot all eclipses are the same: sometimes the Sun is totally covered, called a total solar eclipse, and other times the Moon only partially covers the Sun, which is a partial eclipse. And since the Moon’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular, sometimes it’s …It’s the last…

Salt Lake Tribune Power Company Seeks Rate Increase for Rooftop Solar UsersU.S. News & World ReportGEORGE, Utah (AP) — State utility regulators are poised to consider raising rates for people who have rooftop solar panels and sell their extra electricity back to the power company, a proposal that solar-panel companies say could deal a blow…

Houston Chronicle Eclipse to interrupt solar power productionHouston Chronicle21 solar eclipse that will be visible across a swath of the United States from Oregon to South Carolina will reduce electricity production at about 1,900 utility-scale solar arrays, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Solar panels in the … and more »