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Stimulus Bill Created Nearly 1 Million Green Jobs: CEA Report

Photo via A Green Living It’s kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago — a recent poll found that something like only 13% of Americans felt it helped them. Of course, much of the nation’s disdain can be attributed to the fact that the recession still hasn’t lifted, that the stimulus failed to lift employment figures as high as was hoped, and that Obama’s political foes have seized onto an ‘out-of-control-spending’ narrative. But the stimulus has done a number of very good things, like preventing all-out depressio… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Continues Integrity Test for Extra 24 Hours, Possible Leak Detected [Updated]

Photo: BP Was It Too Good to be True? Unfortunately, it is starting to look like BP’s pressure test might not be quite as successful as it seemed in the first 48 hours. The testing has been extended for 24 hours one more time, and today’s mission #1 is to figure out if the “seep” that has been detected on the ocean floor near the well is a sign that there’s an underground leak, which would be really bad, or just a natural occurrence. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Noted Climate Scientist Stephen H. Schneider Passes

photo via Stanford Today, the world lost Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climate scientist who has for decades built the foundational case that the planet is warming and that action is needed–now. Schneider, 65, shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, and was a heavyweight climatologist, who Gore called, “A prolific researcher and author, co-founder of the journal Climatic Change, and a wonderful communicator, his contributions to the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spain Emerges as Solar Energy Leader

Image credit: GOOD GOOD observes Spain’s emergence as the world’s new solar energy leader. They have built a new solar energy plant and already have plans for solar and wind energy development through 2013. This is great news since developing sustainable energy practices are important to solving our current energy crisis. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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California Sues Fannie and Freddie to Save PACE

photo via flickr Last month, I wrote about how Representatives Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, sent a letter to the Obama Administration trying to save PACE, the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, which allows homeowners to finance their own solar panels or energy-savings retrofits by an addition to their property tax bill. Now California Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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