Flat Earth Society. In this political environment, we take normal events that shouldn’t be news to be breaking news. Take Chris Wallace from Fox News as an example of just that. In an interview with Scott Pruitt, who does the bidding for polluting oil and gas companies, Wallace pushed back on Pruitt’s false comments on effects of humans on climate change. This comes in the wake of the disastrous cuts to the EPA and DOE programs that keep our water and air supply clean. If you look at pollution in some cities, drinking water in places like Flint and eroding beaches in South Florida, you would see that more work is needed. Keep up the good work Chris Wallace, maybe we should start a club for anchors that still think the earth is flat and convince them that science is real.
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Legislative Agendas Across America. One week during legislative gives anti solar efforts in Indiana, Ohio and Missouri. Of course there are more attacks under way and efforts to enhance solar in some States. The problem is these policies are being argued in places where solar is yet to go mainstream. Local installers are there already but few on the national level are paying attention because it doesn’t drive their bottom line. I don’t know what the solution is, we used to have TASC and SolarCity with big budgets. We have to figure out a way that the bi-partisan support for solar is translated to local legislative fights. Legislators at the State level want to go to Congress and we should, as an industry make it clear to them that if they want to go to Congress, being anti-solar is going to make you lose your election.
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- Think Progress: Even Fox News slams EPA chief’s climate denial – ‘All kinds of studies contradict you’
- Washington Post: Trump aims deep cuts at energy agency that helped make solar power affordable
- Herald Bulletin: Solar proponents rally against bill
- PV-Magazine: Bill Seitz is back, still trying to kill solar in Ohio
- Springfield News-Leader: Solar industry alarmed by net metering bill supported by utility companies
- CleanTechnica: Annual California Cap & Trade Report Catalogs Project Impacts Across the State
- New York Times: Women’s Crucial Role in Combating Climate Change
- Utility Dive: PJM – Gas plant buildout, coal retirements don’t threaten reliability
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Yann