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Senators’ Clean Energy Summer School: Lesson No. 4
This week we want to show you how great solar power can be in Michigan, if SB 438 is drastically improved-or that solar will do OK if senators just throw that bad bill out with the cat litter…
Stanford’s Jacobson: How to Get 100% Clean Energy by 2050
The Stanford professor, who’s appeared on the David Letterman Show, leads a research team that’s figuring out what every country on Planet Earth-and every state in the Union-must do reach 100-percent clean, renewable energy by 2050. That’s a major key to slowing climate change.
Senators’ Clean Energy Summer School: Lesson No. 3
We’re schoolin’ you so you can school your state senator this summer on clean energy. By the time they’re back from their break, we want senators to see how lousy energy reform bills SB 437 & 438 are-and how to improve them.