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NPR California Lawmakers Debate 100 Percent Clean Energy MandateNPRCalifornia lawmakers must decide by the end of the day Friday whether to approve the most ambitious clean energy goal in the country: 100 percent clean energy by 2045. The state wouldn’t be the first. Hawaii already has its own 100 percent goal. and more »

CNBC Anheuser-Busch enters into renewable energy partnership with Enel Green PowerCNBCBeer giant Anheuser-Busch has announced it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Enel Green Power. The agreement relates to energy produced by a portion of the Thunder Ranch wind farm in Oklahoma, which is expected to commence …Anheuser-busch Inbev Sa – BUD – Stock…

InsideClimate News Energy Forecast Sees Global Emissions Growth Thwarting Paris Climate AccordInsideClimate NewsThe U.S. government’s energy forecasting branch issued its formal international prognosis on Thursday, and it paints a picture of a world still so addicted to fossil fuels that emissions of global warming pollution continue to increase for the … and more »

Minneapolis Star Tribune Xcel Energy gets PUC nod for gas contract at new Vikings HQMinneapolis Star TribuneXcel Energy has prevailed in a battle with another big utility, Minnesota Energy Resources Corp., or MERC, in a battle over who gets to supply natural gas to the Vikings’ sprawling new development in Eagan. The Minnesota Public Utilities…

Los Angeles Times California clean energy proposals face demise as opposition fails to yieldLos Angeles TimesCalifornia has grown accustomed to setting benchmark after benchmark on environmental policies, but ambitious efforts to spread renewable energy around the state and the region could grind to a halt this week. One proposal, Senate Bill 100 from Senate …California’s clean-energy…

Solar eclipse: Family over the moon with daughter born during totalityUSA TODAYPENSACOLA, Fla. — As the moon made its way across the sun during a rare solar eclipse on Monday, Charlotte Roel Easterly said hello to the world. The 7-pound, 11-ounce baby girl was born at Sacred Hospital at 1:36 p.m. CT at the exact…

TIME This Video of Skydivers Plunging Through the Solar Eclipse Is InsaneTIMESix professional wingsuit jumpers experienced the total solar eclipse from midair 14,000 feet above Madras, Ore. on Monday — a stunt they say is the first of its kind. Video captured by OutsideTV shows them jumping at 10:18 a.m. local time — 30 …Sunday:…

Detroit Free Press Solar eclipse 2017: Michigan viewing in jeopardy thanks to cloud coverDetroit Free PressFor those looking forward to viewing Monday afternoon’s solar eclipse in Michigan, especially in the lower part of the state, you’re going to face one more major obstacle: Cloud cover. As of Sunday morning, the Detroit metropolitan area – along…

MIT Technology Review Making Sense of Trump’s Surprising Investment in SolarMIT Technology ReviewThe press release trumpeted that the solar sector has already achieved the stated 2020 goal of the department’s SunShot Initiative, namely lowering the price of power from utility-scale, photovoltaic plants to 6 cents per kilowatt-hour. It added that …Solar is now so cheap…

Los Angeles Times Saying Goodbye to Cassini, the NASA Mission That Transformed Our Understanding of the Solar SystemThe New YorkerSome merely fade away, like Voyagers 1 and 2, which, four decades after their launch, have departed the solar system and are now drifting into the wider cosmos, quite possibly for eternity. Many others, though, end…