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Landmark year takes shape in Louisiana as policy changes loom
2015-05-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnergyWire: As lawmakers seek budget savings and regulators mull net metering options, 2015 is shaping up as a year to remember for Louisiana's solar industry. One of the state's leading pro-solar groups, the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association (GSREIA), is promoting a spirit of compromise as legislation advances that would reduce solar incentives but keep tax credits in place through 2017. At the same time, PosiGen, a top solar leaser, is questioning the leading bill, saying H.B. 779 would...
A landmark year for forests
2014-12-05 07:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Glenn Hurowitz is the head of the Forest Heroes campaign, an effort to shift agricultural expansion away from forests and peatlands. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. About one year ago today, I was pretty down. It was Thanksgiving night, and the Forest Heroes campaign, which I chair, had been running a big global campaign to persuade Wilmar International, Asias largest agribusiness company, to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuse throughout its enormous supply chain....
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