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Report: Vermont consumers receive norenewable energy despite industry's growth
Utility Dive
A new report from the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School shows that Vermont residents are using norenewable energy, despite growth the state's solar industry, because its renewable energy certificate program encourages ...
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Tax credit extensions can impact renewableenergy deployment and electric sector
Phys.Org
The Energy Department's NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today released new analysis exploring the potential impact of recently extended federal tax credits on the deployment of renewablegeneration technologies and related U.S. electric ...
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100% Renewable Energy: Fact Or Fantasy?
CleanTechnica
John Farrell directs the Democratic Energy program at ILSR and he focuses on energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy. His seminal paper, Democratizing the Electricity ...
APUA versus renewable energy.
Antigua Observer
For those who are unfamiliar, the policy changed from “net metering” whereby a homeowner or business would net their consumption against their renewable energy production. In simplistic terms: produce 100 units of energy and use 100 units and your ...
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Department of Ecology employee accused of stealing from celebration fund
The Olympian
An environmental specialist with the state Department of Ecology is accused of stealing nearly $17,000 from an employee celebration fund. Mary N. Lynum, 48, was arrested Feb. 10 and charged with first-degree theft. The Spanaway woman has no prior ...
The Idea of India Makes Little Room for ItsEcology
The Wire
An ecological perspective interrogates dominant views of nationalism and allows us to approach the question with greater nuance and sensitivity. A couple of years ago, I went to the Sunderbans – the vast deltaic ecosystem straddling eastern India and ...
Ecology to revise proposed carbon cap rule
Longview Daily News
The state Department of Ecology is delaying a new carbon cap by a few months, after interested parties raised questions about its impact. The agency announced Friday that it withdrew its draft Clean Air Rule and will release an updated version in the ...
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Ecology Wants Comments On Port of Everett Cleanup
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The Washington State Department ofEcology is looking for comments before it approves a plan to take contaminated soil and wood products out of the water in front of the old Weyerhaeuser Mill A site at the Port of Everett. Here's a notice issued today ...
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See Where Access to Clean Water Is Getting Better—and Worse
National Geographic
There's been a steady drop in the number of people without access to water over the last 25 years, from about one in three to one in 25. But break out the data by country, and you can see that Eastern Asia's progress is mostly China's progress—the ...
Alarm over lead found in drinking water at US schools
The Guardian
Seven drinking water outlets in Binghamton's public schools had tested too high for lead, the letter stated. The tests had been performed several years ago, but the district took action only last month, when problematic sinks or fountains were shut ...
Water and Power: Can California save enoughwater?
Los Angeles Times
Conservation goals: Californians cut theirwater usage 17.1% in January. There's one month left under Gov. Jerry Brown's emergency order to save water, and it's unclear whether the state will meet his goal of an overall 25% drop in use. “The ...
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Lead found in water at Morristown Medical Center
NJ.com
MORRISTOWN — Water testing at Morristown Medical Center last week revealed the presence of lead in the water, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed. Lead was only found in the water at the 100 Madison Avenue location, and, since Thursday, hospital staff ...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

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  • Tinggal, a budget hotel network in Indonesia, lands $1M from backers of India’s Wudstay  Indonesia-based Tinggal is less than one month old, but today the company announced that it has raised $1 million in funding. Particularly of interest is the fact that this financing has come from the investors and members of the executive team behind India-based Wudstay, a budget hotel network tha...
  • Korean last-minute hotel booking app DailyHotel launches in 10 new countries  DailyHotel, a Seoul-based app that lets harried travelers quickly find hotel rooms, has launched in 10 new Asian countries. The startup was founded in 2013 by brothers Ryan and Jimmy Shin after Ryan struggled to find a last-minute hotel room in Seoul. It has raised more than $10 million from Sequoi...
  • Mobile ad-tech startup NativeX acquired by Chinese advertising company Mobvista
  • Can Emerging Nations Create Their Own Silicon Valleys?
  • Apple vs FBI: Read Apple’s Opening Statement To Congress Tomorrow
  • Buffer Adds Twitter-Based Customer Service Tools
  • Innovations In Cybersecurity At RSA 2016
  • Is Singularity Near?
  • Why Facebook Hosted 200+ African-American Stude
  • NY Judge Rules In Favor Of Apple In Government Request For iPhone Data  In a New York case, Judge Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, denying a government request for information on an iPhone. Read More
  • Meet The Judges For The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off In Brooklyn Tomorrow Night!  Did I mention we’re having a pitch-off in Brooklyn tomorrow night? Because we are! It will be held at Output in Williamsburg at 6pm, and tickets are still available, which you can buy here. But what is a pitch-off? Well, ten companies have been selected to show off their wares on our stage. They wi...
  • GoPro Spends 20% Of Its Cash On Hand To Acquire Two Video Editing Startups
  • Gmail Gets Improved Security Features For Business Users
  • INNOVATE2016: CTA President Gary Shapiro On Marco Rubio As Silicon Valley’s Best Hope
  • Crosley’s First Direct Drive Turntable Doesn’t Disappoint
  • Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets Into A Minor Accident While The AI Was Driving
  • Machine Learning Is Not The Answer To Better Network Security
  • IBM Adds Post-Cyber Attack Planning With Resilient
  • A New, Standardized Way For Employees To Keep Their Vested Stock Options Longer  Amid headlines about billion-dollars valuations are many employees who remain trapped unless their employers eventually go public or else sell to an acquirer in a cash deal. The problem centers on the option plan structure that startups use. Owing to a decades-old tax provision, employees have to e...
  • CornerJob Fires Up Its Blue-Collar Jobs Marketplace App With $10M Series A  Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup Corner Job has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. Read More
  • Facebook’s Private Photo-Sharing App Moments Now Supports Video
  • Israeli Investment Firms receive $665 Million In Commitments In February
  • MongoLab Changes Its Name To mLab As It looks Beyond Database Management
  • Square Cash’s Fast Payments App Can Now Hold A Balance
  • The HTC Vive Ships April 5, Pre-Orders Open Now
  • Castle Is A Property Management Platform From The Future
  • More Than Meets The Virtual Eye
  • Twitter Ended Up Paying $479M For Ad Tech Startup TellApart, 10-K Reveals  Twitter’s largest acquisition to date, of the ad tech business TellApart, has turned out to be a little less less big than originally thought. Back in April 2015, it was calculated that Twitter would pay nearly $533 million for TellApart based on the company’s share price at the time. But a 10-K re...
  • Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation  You know Kung-Fu. Researchers at HRL Laboratories have discovered that when you use transcranial direct current stimulation to send the brain activity of commercial and military pilots into the heads of novice pilots subjects can essentially learn to fly in a realistic flight simulator. The researc...
  • Google Maps Brings Its “Add A Pit Stop” Feature To iOS
  • Draft Text Of EU-US Privacy Shield Deal Fails To Impress The Man Who Slayed Safe Harbor
  • Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield Applications Close Today, Why You Should Apply Now
  • Dashlane Brings YubiKey Support To Its Password Manager
  • Microsoft Launches Pre-Orders For $3,000 HoloLens Development Kit, Will Start Shipping March 30
  • Nominations For The 2016 Europas Awards Now Open, TechCrunch Partners
  • Hopscotch, E-Commerce For Mums In India, Lands $13M Led By Facebook Co-Founder Saverin

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