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Trenton mayor: One bill could supercharge the city’s transportation, jobs and clean air
The electric vehicle bill creates a plan for transitioning our existing diesel-fueled buses to clean, electric buses.
How To Lower Utility Bills
Electricity is something we all use. It’s what makes our world go round. Powering up everything up from our lights to our computers. A problem is…we all pay ...
Want to fix the world? Start by making clean energy a default setting
Research suggests people will pay more for clean energy if you just opt them in to receiving it.
From Lab to Market: Examples of Clean Energy R&D
Research and development is the backbone of clean energy innovation. Check out these specific stories of how R&D drove innovation at our National Labs and advanced the clean energy economy.
Seven Tips to Lower your Summer Electric Bill!
Summer is finally here to stay! Are you feeling the heat when you pay your electric bills? Here are seven ways to keep your electric bill low during the summer: 1. Air conditioner. Your air conditioner may account for 40% of…
Why Homelessness Is a Transportation Issue
What happens when government agencies least prepared to provide assistance wind up as the first responders?
5 big ideas for fixing global cities’ most daunting challenges
Experts in housing, transportation, tech, and more weigh in with solutions to urban ills.
How Transportation Assistance Can Fight Homelessness
Transportation access is one of the biggest factors in keeping people out of homelessness. Cities can help with discounted fares and last-mile connections.
How Countries Around the World Are Dealing With Climate Change
From trading recyclable items for transportation passes to requiring all public buses be electric, countries are thinking of creative ways to reduce carbon emissions. Climate change continues to threaten...
How to capture waste heat energy with improved polymers
By one official estimate, American manufacturing, transportation, residential and commercial consumers use only about 40 percent of the energy they draw on, wasting 60 percent. Very often, this wasted energy escapes as heat, or thermal energy, from inefficient technology that fails to harvest that potential power.
What can a Green New Deal learn from other countries?
From net-zero carbon emissions to transportation fixes, some ideas in the Green New Deal have been tested abroad.
What are the Biggest Energy Eating Culprits?
Although many dread the arrival of their electricity bill, there are some simple ways to see a decrease in your monthly bill.
How to Clean Asphalt
Cleaning asphalt is a task that many homeowners do once or twice each year. With asphalt driveways, the process of cleaning typically requires using the right combination of cleaning products to help loosen oil and other types of stains...
Why many Americans can't afford utilities
Many people have been struggling to pay their energy bills
How changes to air conditioning can fight global warming
The man behind a key amendment to a major climate treaty thinks that he has a way to cool the Earth.
DIY Steps You Can Take to Lower Your Heating Bill
The expectation that a dropping temperature is going to be accompanied by climbing power bills seems to be a pretty much universal and an inevitable one.
How to Cut Cost on Utility Bills Room by Room
Converting a house to an energy-efficient home is a simple process. Use these energy savings tips to quickly start enjoying the comfort & lowering utility bills.
Electricity Billing Made Easy
A new data hub simplifies billing of complex power flows, thus making energy market access easier for all participants.
Zero Energy Buildings should make nice with ice
Air conditioning is a big part of our energy consumption, and ice can work like a big AC battery.
The next clean energy source? Snow.
Researchers from UCLA invent a device that generates electricity from a very unusual source.
