Sustainable North

From The New York Times, Thursday, September 23, 2010: Three House Republicans, Joe Barton and Michael Burgess of Texas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, have introduced the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, which would repeal the section of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that sets minimum energy efficiency standards for light [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Wednesday, September 22, 2010: The state’s environmental agency has delayed a request to the federal government for permits for the Healy Clean Coal project. The decision came Tuesday, the next-to-last day of federal regulators’ 45-day review of the plan. Golden Valley Electric Association needs the permit to restart and operate [...]

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From Yale Environment 360, Thursday, August 19, 2010: With climate legislation dead in Congress and the fizzled hopes for a breakthrough in Copenhagen fading into distant memory, the time seems ripe for fresh strategies — especially ones that do not depend on government action. Here’s a modest proposal: radical transparency, the laying bare of a [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, September 11, 2010: Gov. Sean Parnell says that if Alaska is to meet the ambitious goal of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources some day, it will have to make a major commitment to big hydroelectric project, such as the Susitna project. On a visit to Fairbanks [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, September 10, 2010: The federal government is giving Alaska $700,000 to take steps to improve energy efficiency in the state by 2020. The U.S. Department of Energy funding is intended to go toward efforts such as expanding current energy efficiency programs and outreach and creating necessary policy to lead to [...]

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From Alaska Dispatch, Tuesday, September 7, 2010: A state program designed to ensure that rural Alaska communities have an adequate supply of home-heating fuel is headed into its second successful year, the state reported in a press release. The Fuel Watch program is an initiative of Gov. Sean Parnell that was implemented by the Department [...]

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From The Tundra Drums, Friday, August 20, 2010: If Alaskans aren’t at a crossroads politically, we’re drawing close. Most all candidates running for statewide offices this year have given due time to talk about the state’s energy future, since we’ve been living off of our energy past for so long and change is coming. A [...]

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From The New York Times, Friday, August 13, 2010: The recession is lingering, and so is the unspent stimulus money that was meant to help end it. The latest example is the $3.2 billion that Congress voted in February 2009 as part of an economic stimulus package to simultaneously provide jobs and improve energy efficiency [...]

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ASK A BUILDER BY CCHRC STAFF The “Ask a Builder” series is dedicated to answering some of the many questions Fairbanks residents have about building, energy and the many other parts of home life. Q: Many people are fixing their old home and getting a rebate from the state. Is there still rebate money available [...]

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From The New York Times, Tuesday, August 10, 2010: Congress focuses on whether the Environmental Protection Agency should go where no federal regulators have gone before and regulate greenhouse gases. But the agency did something more prosaic on Monday, albeit something it has not done effectively for the last 15 years or so: it put [...]

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