Ohio's Green Energy Economy:The Energy Efficiency IndustryEnergy efficiency is the cleanest, fastest, cheapest way to meet Ohio's energy needs. Investments in energy efficiency reduce pollution and curb dependence on fossil fuels, but they also create jobs and economic opportunity. Ohio's Green Energy Economy: The Energy Efficiency Industry highlights the more than 1,100 businesses in Ohio that help make our homes, businesses and industrial facilities more energy efficient, and suggests policies to further increase Ohio's energy efficiency. (February 2010) |
The Right Track:Building a 21st Century High-Speed Rail System for AmericaHigh-speed passenger rail can address America's toughest transportation challenges - reducing congestion on highways and in airports, curbing our dependence on oil, boosting the economy, and protecting the environment. The Right Track: Building a 21st Century High-Speed Rail System for America, documents the benefits of proposed passenger rail improvements across the country and calls for wise investments in improved rail infrastructure. (February 2010) |
Toward a Clean Energy Future:The Vision, the Track Record, and the Challenge Ahead for New Jersey's LeadersOver the past decade, New Jersey has taken important steps on the road to a clean energy future – conserving energy, reducing our contribution to global warming, protecting our air and water quality and improving public health. However, at the beginning of the new decade, the state’s commitment to a clean energy future is less certain. Dirty energy companies are once again lining up at New Jersey’s doorstep, working to build an experimental coal-fired power plant and new power lines that could increase New Jersey’s global warming footprint. Newly elected Governor Chris Christie has an opportunity to ensure continued progress. By embracing the state’s existing clean energy goals – and by enacting real, concrete policies to make those goals reality – Governor Christie can help the state do its part to stop the worst impacts of global warming and ensure a reliable, affordable electricity supply. |
Plug-In Cars:Powering America Toward a Cleaner FutureAmerica's current fleet of cars and trucks leaves us dependent on oil, and contributes to air pollution that fuels global warming and harms our health. Plug-In Cars: Powering America Toward a Cleaner Future, explores the potential of plug-in hybrids, which can get up to 100 miles per gallon of gasoline, and electric vehicles, which use no gasoline at all, to address our energy and global warming challenges. The white paper also identifies potential barriers to the spread of plug-in cars and public policies that can surmount those barriers. (January 2010) |
Unfulfilled Promise:The Million Acres Initiative and the Need to Protect North Carolina's Open SpacesNorth Carolina is renowned for its natural beauty, but rapid development over the past several decades has threatened some of its most treasured open spaces. Recognizing the importance of preserving its natural places for future generations, North Carolina’s General Assembly established the Million Acre Initiative to protect one million acres of land between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2009. Unfulfilled Promise highlights the state’s progress under the initiative, and documents how North Carolina fell short of its goal. (January 2010) |
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