ONTARIO, Canada. Canadian Solar Inc. (the “Company” or “Canadian Solar”) (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world’s largest solar companies with a global supply-chain and manufacturing facilities in Canada and China, this week announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce (“DOC”) issued a final determination to impose antidumping duties (AD) of 15.42% and countervailing duties (CVD) [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. and CHANGZHOU, China. Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) (“Trina Solar” or the “Company”) commented today on Solyndra LLC’s filing of an antitrust and unfair trade practice lawsuit against Trina Solar and other China-based solar manufacturers in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. The Company believes the lawsuit is [...]
Washington, D.C. — This week, Sierra Club Independent Action launched its new “Toxic Money, Toxic Votes†campaign, targeting six House incumbents. This effort will invest significant resources on mail, network and cable television advertising to highlight the records of incumbents who have put the dangerous agendas of their big oil, gas, and coal campaign donors [...]
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Greenpeace released a briefing detailing Romney campaign operative and Press Secretary Andrea Saul’s involvement with DCI Group, a firm that was on contract to ExxonMobil at the height of the oil company’s campaign to attack global warming science and climate change policy. “It’s clear that Saul was part of campaigns that spread anti-science [...]
We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Announces Seven Major Renewable Energy Infrastructure Projects that Would Power 1.5 million Homes to be Expedited WASHINGTON, DC – Today, as a part of his We Can’t Wait initiative, President Obama announced that seven nationally and regionally significant solar and wind energy projects will be expedited, including projects in Arizona, [...]
Washington, D.C. – The Sierra Club and NCLR (National Council of La Raza) announced a new national survey today, finding that nearly 90 percent of Latino voters favor clean energy over fossil fuels. The national poll surveyed 1,131 Latino registered voters across the country on a number of public health, environmental and energy issues, and [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of the Interior, in partnership with the Department of Energy, will publish the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy development in six southwestern states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The final Solar PEIS represents a major step [...]
PLYMOUTH, Minn. – U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman last week highlighted how Minnesota clean energy companies and workers are supporting American leadership and global competitiveness in manufacturing during a series of events across the Twin Cities area. While in Minnesota, Deputy Secretary Poneman also called for the extension of clean energy tax credits [...]
Trenton, NJ – Taking action that continues the Christie Administration’s commitment to fostering the development of renewable energy resources in New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie today signed into law bipartisan legislation to strengthen and encourage the continued growth of New Jersey’s solar industry, while protecting ratepayers from increased costs. The bill, S-1925, couples an acceleration [...]
The future of the Carbon Tax may be uncertain, but a carbon price is here to stay, according to research from The Australian National University. The research, by Dr Frank Jotzo of the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, surveyed the views of Australian large emitters, carbon [...]
Washington, DC – Yesterday, the campaign of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced Romney is opposed to extending the vital Wind Energy Production Tax Credit that supports 75,000 American clean energy jobs. P> Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune Released the Following Statement in Response: “We’d all heard Romney had a history of shipping American [...]
Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants. EPA’s proposed standard reflects the ongoing trend in the power sector to build cleaner plants that take advantage of American-made technologies, including new, clean-burning, efficient natural gas generation, [...]
Washington, D.C.—Multiple environmental organizations called on the President’s chief environmental advisor asking for a full environmental analysis of plans to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). The letter to the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency sounds the alarm that the agencies considering these export plans are not analyzing or disclosing the environmental [...]
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