The Latest from Kevin Featherly

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  New program helps hospitals advance solar beyond their campuses

  As health care providers seek to expand clean energy, a new program will help them overcome the space limitations of their campuses.

  By Kevin Featherly  .  27 July 2016

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  Q&A: In ‘The Madhouse Effect,’ climate scientist uses satire to convey ‘difficult truths’

  Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph demonstrated that average global temperatures spiked rapidly in the twentieth century and continue to rise. That visualization provided a key narrative device for Al Gore’s landmark 2006 global warming documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

  By Kevin Featherly  .  7 July 2016

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  Q&A: Does clean energy face a tougher standard on its impacts?

  Are clean energy developers held to a double standard? A crisis communications expert offers some insight.

  By Kevin Featherly  .  5 July 2016

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  Q&A: How regulators can improve clean energy economics for utilities

  A paper co-authored by a Wisconsin economist says regulators have economic levers at their disposal that can guide utilities toward green energy development while improving returns for shareholders.

  By Kevin Featherly  .  27 May 2016

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  Minnesota bill would support bird, bee habitat for solar

  A potentially first-in-the-nation bill has passed the Minnesota House that would permit owners of large, ground-mounted solar sites to publicly declare them beneficial habitat for birds and pollinating insects.

  By Kevin Featherly  .  20 May 2016

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  Tree removal for Minnesota solar project prompts legislative action

  In addition to a countywide moratorium, a controversy over the removal of trees for a Minnesota solar project has prompted an amendment in the state legislature.

  By Kevin Featherly  .  9 May 2016

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  Q&A: A Canadian evangelical confronts U.S. climate politics

  Dr. Katharine Hayhoe spends a lot of time trying to convince fellow conservative Christians that climate change is real, human-influenced and a global crisis—and that it is their duty as members of the faith to act.

  By Kevin Featherly  .  15 April 2016

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  Lasers scan for leaks at Illinois carbon sequestration site

  A laser technology capable of detecting carbon dioxide emissions in near real-time is being tested above ground at an Illinois carbon sequestration site.

  By Kevin Featherly  .  9 June 2015

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  Xcel pursues community solar in Wisconsin, but on small scale

  As it has in Minnesota, Xcel Energy will soon be offering community solar to its customers in Wisconsin, albeit on a much smaller scale.

  By Kevin Featherly  .  30 April 2015