Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: renewable energy

California generates enough solar power to meet half its energy needs

California and other progressive states are pushing ahead, providing a model for the rest of country.

Pope goes electric, sets example for world leaders

“Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it.”

Wind power sets new record: Briefly provides majority of electricity for...

In 2016, wind power was the largest U.S. source of renewable electric capacity and is now the country’s fourth-largest energy source.

Victory: These two cities just committed to 100% renewable energy

“We have a lot of hard work ahead, but it is encouraging to see more and more communities, businesses and universities understand that renewable energy is not only the right moral choice, but also the right economic choice.”

Clean energy grows, but many of the poorest remain in the...

World Bank reports “a race” underway to secure sustainable energy, but a money gap leaves poorer nations – particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa – lagging.

Employment report: Solar employs more than coal, oil, and natural gas...

Solar specifically employs the largest share of workers in the Electric Power generation sector.

Wyoming bill would outlaw renewable energy

Wyoming is waging a quasi-war on wind.

The closing of Indian Point and the future of nuclear power...

This comes in the face of nuclear power plant accidents­ ­and competitive power being less expensive including renewable and safe solar and wind energy.

Dutch trains are world’s first to run on 100% wind power

The Dutch government is looking to ramp up the nation's share of renewable energy from 4 percent to 16 percent.

Save the Renewable Fuel Standard

Help us tell the EPA to keep the Renewable Fuel Standard and keep the United States moving away from dependence on foreign oil.

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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The US Capitol, where Senator Bernie Sanders has convened a bipartisan briefing on AI risk for September 16. Photo: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.