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Los Angeles, Calif.
The first quotas for green vehicles in the largest car market could have broad national impact, but will there be enough consumer demand?
If all goes as planned, more than a million ultra-clean cars will be zipping around California in...
Feb 8, 2012 | Read More
Valero's Benicia refinery in Solano County, Calif.
A legal brawl over a low-carbon fuel rule will shape the appetite of global markets for Canada's dirtier crude.
A high-stakes legal battle is underway in California over whether the state's clean air agency can...
Jan 20, 2012 | Read More
The nation’s top two solar states are re-examining arcane rules that can discourage rooftop solar projects. Other states are expected to follow their lead.
Prompted by pressure from clean energy advocates, Hawaii and California are quietly working to...
Dec 23, 2011 | Read More
Solyndra
Did the media make too much of the Solyndra bankruptcy? Electric car fans get a mixed bag of news, while cleantech investing hits the trillion-dollar mark.
The question whether the media made too much of Solyndra continued to rankle this week. Mainstream...
Dec 9, 2011 | Read More
The U.S. West is integrating a decades-old 'synchrophasor' technology into the grid, allowing utilities to add more renewables and help avoid blackouts.
The Western electrical grid is in the midst of a major modernization using an old technology—the...
Oct 3, 2011 | Read More
Solar power panels on the Palm Desert, Calif. Walmart
The state has become one of few governments worldwide—and the first in the U.S.—to finalize a unique auction program to ramp-up renewables
Trying to avoid the potential perils of European-style feed-in tariffs, California regulators are...
Sep 1, 2011 | Read More
San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm in Riverside County, Calif.
New report says the $200B that Western states will spend on electricity systems will determine the course of their energy future to 2050 and beyond
Eleven Western states will spend $200 billion in the next two decades to upgrade their electricity...
Aug 25, 2011 | Read More
A smart meter from PG&E
But experts warn the rules must be part of a much larger strategy by utilities to prevent financial fraud and other security breaches
California regulators have adopted the nation's first sweeping privacy rules for household smart...
Aug 4, 2011 | Read More
Wind turbines in San Diego County
San Diego County has been slow to embrace wind farms, largely because of permitting obstacles and local opposition — but that could change soon
Clean energy groups in San Diego County are hoping to spark a wind energy rush in a region far...
Jun 28, 2011 | Read More
Gov. Jerry Brown
Calif. is expected to launch a carbon market in January. It's the last hope of many to revive a U.S. climate agenda, but Gov. Brown may still make changes
LOS ANGELES, CA.—California Governor Jerry Brown could still make changes to the state's ambitious...
Apr 18, 2011 | Read More