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Obama on Solar Plant in Arcadia listen
10/27/09 Mark AndersonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Energy, Stimulus Package, solar power, smart grid
President Obama visited Florida Power & Light’s (FP&L) Arcadia solar energy generation plant today, as the utility connected the plant to the national grid for the first time. Obama’s remarks focused on the merits of clean solar power, and on additional investments the government will make to create a new, smart electric grid.
FP&L is building 3 large photovoltaic based solar generation plants in Florida: one each in DeSoto and Martin counties, and one at the Kennedy Space Center. The ...
Be the first to commentInternational Day of Climate Action was biggest yet listen
10/26/09 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: climate change, activism, Energy, environmental activist, s
As part of the International Day of Climate Action, local activists rallied on Saturday in Tampa. According to the website http://350.org, people in 181 countries held 5200 events for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history. They were asking national leaders from all over the globe to take a strong stance on supporting climate change legislation.
An Associated Press-commissioned statistical analysis released Monday confirms that the Earth is still h...
Be the first to commentPew Forum on climate, energy and national security listen
09/01/09 Mark AndersonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Energy, USF, environment
The nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts were formed by the heirs of the Sun Oil Company in 1948. The goal of the Pew Trusts is to improve public policy, inform the public, and stimulate civic life through analytic research. The trusts formed the Pew Research Council in 2004 and this group sponsored a town hall type forum, at the USF campus yesterday to discuss the intersection of 3 issues, National Security, Energy Policy, and Climate Change. The forum had 200 people in attendance.
The fo...
Be the first to commentMajor Energy Bill Moving Toward A Vote In The House
06/25/09 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: cap and trade, energy
On May 21, the House Energy & Commerce Committee passed the latest version of the American Clean Energy & Security Act (H.R. 2454) (also known as ACES, or the Waxman-Markey Bill). Right now, the bill is moving through the U.S. House of Representatives.
On today's Radioactivity we heard from Phil Compton with the Florida regional office of the Sierra Club and Robert Armstead, the Climate Change Coordinator for the Florida Conservation Alliance Institute.
H.R. 2454 puts the U.S. on the ...
Be the first to commentGreenpeace slams climate change bill in House listen
05/26/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Energy, climate, Greenpeace
Last week, California Democratic Representative Henry Waxman was able, despite strong Republican opposition, to get an energy and climate bill through the House Energy and Commerce Committee that he chairs.
Instead of elation by environmental groups being pleased to see this bill get through the first of several committees in the House, there is a lot of disappointment.
Kert Davies is research director for Greenpeace USA, based in Washington. Last week, the group said on its website th...
Be the first to commentUtility chief speaks to Tiger Bay Club listen
04/07/09 Amy BeemanWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: nuclear power plant, Lyash, energy, Tampa Bay Rays
The president and CEO of Progress Energy, Jeff Lyash, spoke to the Tiger Bay Club about the future of energy and where things stand with the controversial new Tampa Bay Rays stadium at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club today.
Lyash, a known proponent of building a new local nuclear power plant, told the crowd that nuclear power alone is not the solution to our future energy needs. He said with the depletion of fossil fuels, it is important to look at a variety of new sources of energy that can...
Be the first to commentSenate Panel debates new clean energy regulations listen
03/31/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Forida Power and Light, Energy, climate change, nuclear energy, politics
In Tallahassee, a Senate panel today passed a bill sponsored by Republican Jim King that would require 20 percent of energy in Florida to come from renewable and "clean sources" by 2020; but its future looks extremely dubious.
Before the hearing, most of the controversy involved unhappiness among environmentalists who were upset because the bill had included nuclear as a clean energy source. But it later was almost derailed due to a penny gas tax.
Eric Draper with the Audubon of Florida...
Be the first to commentPoll: Americans want to address climate change now listen
11/17/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Climate change, environment, energy
A coalition of 31 national environmental organizations recently called on President-elect Barack Obama to work with Congress to pass ambitious economy-wide climate change legislation, while moving ahead under the Clean Air Act to set greenhouse gas emission limits on electric power plants, cars and fuels.
Jerry Karnas, the Florida Climate Project Director with the Environmental Defense Fund, says a new survey commissioned by his organization on Election Night shows that even in this time o...
Be the first to commentMartinez discusses energy and the economy listen
10/14/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Climate change, energy, coal, nuclear power
Two of the most pressing issues of this campaign season are the faltering economy and the topic of energy. Inside a cruise terminal at the Port of Tampa this afternoon, the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Tampa Electric and the University of South Florida hosted a forum on those topics.
Republican Sen. Mel Martinez led a panel discussion about how the economy and energy are related. Martinez said America’s energy future includes a range of sources, including drilling in the Arctic Nati...
1 commentsMoveOn postpones clean energy rally listen
08/19/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: MoveOn, John McCain, energy, fuel
Across the country today, the political activist group MoveOn held 150 rallies for clean energy. The planned rallies in the Tampa Bay area were cancelled because of Tropical Storm Fay, but WMNF spoke with Joe Illingworth, a Pinellas coordinator for MoveOn. Illingworth said the country wants clean energy rather than Sen. John McCain’s energy policy of continued oil dependence.
“…We think the problem we’re in now is because we’ve been relying on fossil fuels and fossil thinking instead of be...
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