Headline News:
- Opinion: “Meet the mom litigating the ‘biggest case on the planet'” • Julia Olson is litigating what should be considered the most important court case in the United States: She’s helping 21 kids, as young as age 9, sue the Obama administration over its insufficient action on climate change. Olson will attempt to make their case for the future. [CNN]
Julia Olson, chief legal counsel of Our Children’s Trust
- California’s Kern county, home to 4.9 GW of installed solar power capacity, saw average irradiance in June drop by between 1% and 4% in different parts of the county because of wildfires. Environmental and industrial measurement firm Vaisala calculates that a 1% loss could lead to more than $940,000 of lost revenues. [SeeNews Renewables]
- Excess chicken waste is one of the Chesapeake Bay’s biggest scourges. The state of Maryland has been trying to deal with that without much luck. But a new project is bringing fresh hope, state agricultural officials say. CleanBay Renewables is going big, becoming the first of its kind to expand beyond a single farm. [Delmarva Daily Times]
- Austin Energy’s partial ownership of a coal-fired power plant might cost the utility $10 million a year, a report says. The analysis, commissioned by Public Citizen, found that dramatic expansions of wind and solar generation combined with rock-bottom prices for natural gas had ruined the economics of most coal plants. [MyStatesman.com]
- Phoenix Energy, an alternative energy company from Nevada, is bidding $38 million for the unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Hollywood, Alabama. The Tennessee Valley Authority has invested some $5 billion in the plant since construction began in the mid-1970s, but it was never finished as demand leveled off. [WAAY]
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September 13 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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