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- Chad Pregracke may be known as “The Rivers’ Garbageman,” having cleaned up America’s waterways for almost 20 years, but he also loves planting trees. In 2007, his nonprofit, Living Lands & Waters, set a new goal, to plant 1 million oak trees, and now, it has reached that goal. [CNN]
Chad Pregracke and his nonprofit surprised students by planting the group’s millionth tree at their school.
- The failure of monsoon last year led to declining water levels at dams across the river Kali in the Indian state of Karnataka. If there is no rain by June, the reservoirs are likely to dry up, with effects on power generation at both hydro-electric and nuclear power plants. [Times of India]
- Former US Energy Secretary Steven Chu commented on energy auctions in Mexico, which are unsubsidized. Mexico’s state utility got bids on solar, wind, hydro, cogeneration, combined-cycle gas, and geothermal energy. Solar and wind cost about 4¢/kWh, far below the costs of fossil fuels. [Forbes]
- While Republican lawmakers in Washington have fought to protect coal-fired power plants, opposing President Obama’s efforts to cut carbon emissions, data show their home states are often the ones benefiting most from the nation’s accelerating shift to renewable energy. [Kokomo Tribune]
- Philadelphia will experience the largest transit agency investment in zero-emission buses in the US Northeast, according to the director of the Sierra Club’s electric vehicles initiative. Philadelphia is a walkable city already, but cleaning up the buses will make that even better. [CleanTechnica]
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from Green Energy Times http://www.greenenergytimes.net/2016/05/08/may-8-green-energy-news-3/
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