For the past three years, residents of Syracuse and Onondaga County, NY, have sent only 315,000 tons of garbage to the County’s garbage incineration plant....
Thanks to a new interlocal agreement, the City of Wilson, North Carolina will soon expand its Greenlight community broadand network to the nearby Town of...
Exelon, a monopoly electric utility and the nation’s largest nuclear power generator, made a $6.8 billion offer to purchase Pepco, Washington D.C.’s electric utility in April of...
In April 2014, Exelon, the nation’s largest nuclear power generator, made a $6.8 billion offer for Washington D.C.-based Pepco. Exelon – which already owns Illinois...
Zero Waste (90% or more diversion from incineration and landfill) is a concept and a practical approach to managing the valuable materials in waste streams...
The following presentation was given by ILSR’s Director of Democratic Energy John Farrell, this year’s keynote speaker at the Sierra Club of Nebraska’s Annual Event...
Renewable energy continues to dominate new power plant capacity and distributed generation has contributed an increasingly large share. We’ve been tracking this phenomenon since April...
In its short four years of operation, the non-profit Lifecycle Building Center in Atlanta has diverted 500 tons of reusable building materials from area landfills....
Citizens of Curtis Bay in south Baltimore are fending off a 4,000 ton per day garbage incinerator proposed for their community of 15,000 residents already...
Contact: Rebecca Toews Rebecca@ILSR.org 612-808-0689 Amid the hype of online and big-box shopping this weekend, it’s easy to overlook the growing popularity of independent...
Recent years have been record ones for mergers and acquisitions. While much of this concentration is invisible to most of us, its effects ripple throughout...
I took the “no” side in a point/counterpoint in the Wall Street Journal this week on the topic: Will Solar Energy Plummet if the Investment...
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Contact: Rebecca Toews Rebecca@ILSR.org 612-808-0689 Ten years after pledging to become an environmental leader, Walmart still relies heavily on dirty energy and derives just 3%...
In a position piece released in October, Hillary Clinton voiced strong support for local authority: “Three-quarters of US households have at most one option for...