By Ramona du Houx August 12, 2020 According to New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) the state received 1,800 applications for its new electric vehicle rebate program in just the last two months. The BPU has approved more than 1,000 applications for a total of about $5.8 million. The agency runs the program and is reviewing the remaining applications. […]
The carbon economy amplifies racial, social and economic inequities, creating a system that is fundamentally incompatible with a stable future Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, Mariana Mazzucato, Clair Brown, Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Robert Reich, Gabriel Zucman and others Aug 4, 2020 Published in the Guardian From deep-rooted racism to the Covid-19 pandemic, from extreme inequality to ecological collapse, our world is facing dire and deeply interconnected emergencies. […]
BY MATT PETERSEN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 07/30/20 in The Hill © Getty Images As our nation continues to reel from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that getting America back to work as safely and as quickly as possible is the key to surviving the current crisis and thriving in the future. Stimulus measures under consideration […]
By Alexis Shanes. Published, with great slide show, in: NorthJersey.com. July 31,2020 PSEG Power on Friday announced it would explore selling its fleet of fossil fuel-burning power plants, turning toward zero-carbon generation and clean energy investments as investor preferences shift. The company previously set a goal to attain net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the deadline in New Jersey’s 2019 […]