Cape Wind, the planned $2.7 billion wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., in Nantucket Sound, got the green light in April from the Interior Dept., the most important approval so far in the project’s nine-year odyssey. Even so,…
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Once on the Fast Track, Tar Sands Pipeline Faces Tougher Scrutiny | OnEarth
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Will a pipeline like this one in Alaska soon run tar sands oil all the way to refineries on the Gulf Coast? >> Concern mounts that a Canadian company’s plan to transport more tar sands oil across the continent will…
Jeff Immelt on Crowdsourcing, 30 Rock, and Why ‘Green’ Is No Longer Gold | GreenBiz
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0inShare Last week, at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, there was a rare intersection of business suits and hipsters in skinny jeans. The business suit, in this case, was worn by GE’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt, sans tie and…
PHOTOS: Greening the US Open | OnEarth
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via onearth.org You might think the biggest sporting event in the country is the World Series or the Super Bowl. But by head count, neither comes close to the US Open tennis tournament, when 700,000 guests flood into the Billie…