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Green Jobs Genie Is Out of the Bottle With Prop 23 Victory

By Danny Kennedy and Charlie Finnie, November 9th 2010 via greentechsolar. On election night there was a party that would have seemed impossible a year ago. Environmental justice and civil rights activists, the Republican governor, billionaire financiers, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs … Continue reading →

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The weight of the law

Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed a regulation requiring utilities to get a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020.  CARB stepped in because the legislature failed to enact a law that would have increased the … Continue reading →

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Another reason to hate Prop 23

 Our good friends at Vote Solar just let us in on a not-so-wonderful little news flash:  If Prop 23 (which is on the ballot in California this November) passes, the state’s renewable energy mandate will drop from a respectable … Continue reading →

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Hate Dirty Energy?

Here at Sungevity , we try to stay on the sunny side.  But there’s nothing positive to say about Prop 23, a cynical Texas oil company attempt to overturn California’s landmark clean energy/climate change legislation. Texas oil refiners Valero and Tesoro … Continue reading →

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Danny Kennedy: Adam Smith Would Roll in His Grave

The Texas Oil Companies behind the Dirty Energy Prop seem to be up to some new tricks, including using Adam Smith’s name in vain! The latest news on this front is that their fundraising campaign is raising the federal government’s … Continue reading →

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