Comments on: Illinois and North Carolina Pass Renewable Energy Standards – Half of All States Now Have RES Policies http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Energy Tech Stocks – The Financial News Site for The Global Energy Tech Revolution http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-51027 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:45:43 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-51027 [...] states – now have their own renewable energy standards, according to this informative blog entry itsgettinghotinhere.org . . [...]

]]> By: Burning Bio News » Blog Archive » Report on State Renewable Fuel Standard Legislation, IL and NC http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49774 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:21:17 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49774 [...] on State Renewable Fuel Standard Legislation, IL and NC Illinois and North Carolina recently joined 23 other states in enacting renewable energy standard (R… Delaware also doubled itÕs existing standard last month while Missouri adopted a non-binding [...]

]]> By: jessejenkins http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49741 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:22:28 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49741 Calvin, thanks for the nomination for the Blogging for Change award. Actually, It’s Getting Hot in Here isn’t my blog, it’s a group blog maintained by a hole cadre of talented, dedicated young climate activists from across North America and the world. The blog is dedicated to being a clearing house of information and news and a site for discussion and dialog amongst youth climate change activists. Thanks for the nomination and I’ll pass the word along to the site’s webmaster.

My personal blog is WattHead – Energy News and Commentary.

By the way, IGHIH readers, Calvin’s blog(s) are also excellent, and I’d encourage you to check them out: Climate Change Action

]]> By: lizveazey http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49558 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:13:16 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49558 nice post Jesse. I’m from NC and am happy to see an RPS in the South, but am really upset that the bill included a provision for “construction work-in-progress” which allows utilities to recoup construction and design costs from ratepayers for dirty energy plants even if they’re not finished making it easier for them to build these plants :( as wall street is becoming less interested in financing them. This also divided the environmental community in NC with a couple groups lobbying for the REPS and most groups stepping back or lobbying against it. click here for more insight on this schism
I’d like to believe that a solid RPS could have passed in NC without the “construction work-in-progress” provision for the utility companies. there was so much citizen support and if all of the many groups pushing this had united together around this, then I really think it could have passed.
too often groups are ready to compromise to get “something rather than nothing” but I think this is a false reality and as soon as groups give-in the debate shifts away from the “pure” legislation and there is then a sense of “something rather than nothing”
it happened 30 years ago when environmental groups compromised to get some strip mining legislation rather than nothing giving mining companies the ability to do mountaintop removal mining if there could be areas that could be designated “lands unsuitable for mining”; there are now more than 400 mountains devastated by MTR sites and less than 15 sites designated as “lands unsuitable for mining”
we must learn from our history or we’re doomed to repeat it!
maybe I’ll turn this into a better blog post, stay tuned.

]]> By: Calvin Jones http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49537 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:24:48 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49537 Hi Jesse

You have one of the most interesting climate change blogs on the web so when I
was nominated for the ‘Blogging for Positive Global Change’ award and asked to
nominate five blogs this was one of those nominated by me.

My post with a link to your blog is here:
http://climatechangeaction.blogspot.com/2007/08/blogging-for-positive-global-change.html

The original post where this all got started is here:
http://climateofourfuture.org/?p=33

Best wishes,
Calvin

Climate Change Action

]]> By: jcwinnie http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49484 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:16:42 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/06/illinois-and-north-carolina-pass-renewable-energy-standards-half-of-all-states-now-have-res-policies/#comment-49484 The action by North Carolina breaks the RPS lockout in the Southeast and weakens efforts against a Federal Renewable Portfolio Standard.

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