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Department of Energy Wasting $2.2M of Energy a Year
By Dave Thier - AOL News(July 9) -- The Department of Energy has all kinds of energy-saving tips on its website, including a recommendation to use more efficient light bulbs -- but an internal audit shows that the department could stand to take some of its own advice if it plans on leading by example. The auditors visited seven Department of Energy sites with 96 buildings in total, and found that only two were using high-efficiency light bulbs. They estimated that the department was consequently wasting $2.2 million in electricity a year -- enough to power 3,200 homes, The New York Times calculates. "Each of the ...
Opinion: Time to Go Nuclear on Energy
By not in system - AOL News(Jan. 29) – As part of his push for clean-energy jobs, President Obama in his State of the Union speech specifically called for "building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country." The line got standing applause from both sides of the aisle. And for good reason. Today, fossil fuels meet 85 percent of the energy needs of the United States. If we are to control the threat of climate change, we (and the rest of the world) will have to restructure our energy system to reduce dependence on energy sources that, like conventionally burned fossil fuels, release ...
Government Waste Under the Cloak of Greenness
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyIt's time to stop covering up government waste, fraud and abuse with a "green" cloak. Yes, global warming is happening and, yes, the government can help slow the process by encouraging companies to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions. One way is to retrofit high-polluting buildings with equipment more environmentally sound than that used when the buildings were constructed decades ago. But putting that equipment in buildings slated to be razed, as the Washington Post discovered has been happening, is not the way to go. It's not just wrong to spend limited government resources this way, ...
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