Image Credit: Sierra Club To hold polluters accountable, Sierra Club has launches a major campaign exposes utility companies’ insufficient action and continued spending on fossil fuels. The campaign aims to hold the polluters accountable and pressure elected officials demand utility companies transition to clean energy in a rapid, timely manner. The campaign launched this week […]
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‘Dirty Truth’: New campaign exposes utilities failing to deliver on climate pledges
Exercise: National Guard is Preparing for a Major Cyberattack to Shut Down Utilities Across the United States
Excerpts from Texas News Today: After the hacking of the Colonial Pipeline shook the country’s fuel supply, the National Guard is preparing for a major cyberattack that shuts down utilities across the United States. In this month’s two-week training exercise, troops across the New England region practiced tackling large-scale simulated violations across critical infrastructure sectors […]
Low Energy, High Profits: How Privatizing Public Utilities Left Us All in the Dark
PHILADELPHIA — The Maryland rapper Sean Born’s 2012 album Behind the Scale includes what one reviewer described as the “candidly soulful single” “Lights On,” which has the driving and catchy up-tempo beat that tends to characterize much of contemporary hip-hop. Its lyrics, however, have none of the swagger that the genre is known for and […]
Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities?
My longtime friend GFB recently suggested I revisit my position on RussiaGate, the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. I have been dismissive of the investigation because the idea that a pinprick of Facebook advertising ($100,000) could influence the sprawling ocean of public opinion struck me as preposterous. But GFB suggested I […]
Biggest Threat to Utilities Is Not Solar + Storage, It’s Their Own Greed
Biggest Threat to Utilities Is Not Solar + Storage, It’s Their Own Greed May 31st, 2017 Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — I had written a long, obscenity laden rant about the retail energy cartel in New Zealand as the […]
UMaine debuting ocean simulator to test sea-bound technology
In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, photo, waves distort the reflection in an indoor wave pool and wind tunnel at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. The university’s new wind-wave basin is capable of simulating some of the worst conditions at sea at a 1:50 scale. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Builders of everything from […]
Utilities seek to pass on hundreds of millions to comply with new regulations
Daily Beast October 5, 2011 Already weary of high gas prices and 9.1 percent unemployment, many Americans are about to get another kick in the wallet thanks to large increases in their electricity bills. From Alaska to Georgia and Wyoming to Florida, utilities are seeking permission to pass on hundreds of millions of dollars […]