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New program helps hospitals advance solar beyond their campuses
As health care providers seek to expand clean energy, a new program will help them overcome the space limitations of their campuses.
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Q&A: In ‘The Madhouse Effect,’ climate scientist uses satire to convey ‘difficult truths’
Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph demonstrated that average global temperatures spiked rapidly in the twentieth century and continue to rise. That visualization provided a key narrative device for Al Gore’s landmark 2006 global warming documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
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Q&A: Does clean energy face a tougher standard on its impacts?
Are clean energy developers held to a double standard? A crisis communications expert offers some insight.
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Q&A: How regulators can improve clean energy economics for utilities
A paper co-authored by a Wisconsin economist says regulators have economic levers at their disposal that can guide utilities toward green energy development while improving returns for shareholders.
Minnesota
Minnesota bill would support bird, bee habitat for solar
A potentially first-in-the-nation bill has passed the Minnesota House that would permit owners of large, ground-mounted solar sites to publicly declare them beneficial habitat for birds and pollinating insects.