POTAWATOMI'S NEW CLEAN ENERGY POLL CONTRASTS WITH WMC FINDINGS

Posted on 3/11/10 by Wispolitics

A majority of likely Wisconsin voters support the “Clean Energy Jobs Act,” and two-thirds believe the state should take steps on its own to reduce emissions that cause global warming, according to a new poll from the Forest County Potawatomi.

The results of the mid-February survey are almost the exact opposite of what Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce found last fall. According to the WMC poll, 62 percent of voters believed global warming is not the state’s   Read More

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How America Could Get Rich by Going Green

Posted on 3/10/10 by CBS News

CBS News correspondent Celia Hatton reports wind turbines that can be seen slicing the sky above rural Minnesota were manufactured more than 6,000 miles away by a Chinese company. They're helping to power the nearby town of Pipestone.

  "The wind is blowing nearly all the time," said Pipestone resident Elmer Stoltenberg. "We should take advantage of that."

  In New Jersey, one Rutgers University campus gets Read More

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Businesses support Clean Energy Jobs Act

Posted on 3/9/10 by Wausau Daily Herald

One sector of the Wisconsin economy, renewable energy, continues to create jobs, despite the economic recession. Already this year, three new businesses in renewable energy manufacturing have made headlines, creating nearly 1,000 manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin in the next few years. It is therefore perplexing that we continue to hear claims from certain interest groups that policies encouraging renewable energy generation will eliminate jobs in Wisconsin. Renewable energy business see   Read More

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Report: Energy efficiency is job creator

Posted on 3/4/10 by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Continuing a push for a clean-energy bill that would expand Wisconsin’s use of renewable power, the Doyle administration on Thursday released a consultant’s report that found programs run by the state Focus on Energy program have added more than 5,000 jobs to the state’s economy since 2001. The study is the latest in a series of studies that have found a big payoff in terms of reduction in carbon emissions and savings on energy bills from a bigger investment in energy   Read More

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Nation’s Coal Consumption Drops 9.3 Percent as Wisconsin’s Increases

Posted on 3/2/10 by Clean Wisconsin

Madison, Wis – As Wisconsin legislators debate the Clean Energy Jobs Act in the Capitol, new data shows that the state is currently heading in the wrong direction by increasing its consumption of coal, even as the nation’s consumption falls. “The $16 billion river of dirty fossil fuels flowing into our state is getting deeper,” said Peter Taglia, staff scientist at Clean Wisconsin, the state’s largest environmental advocacy organization. “Coal is the dirtiest   Read More

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