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Wendy Almukdad knows energy efficiency. The Bay Area electrical engineer works for the California Public Utilities Commission and before that the federal government. She ran energy efficiency audits for federal buildings. But when she and her husband bought their first house in San Bruno, she was surprised at how difficult it was to figure out [...]
President Obama laid down a bold challenge to America in his State of the Union speech last week: get to 80% clean energy by 2035. Clean energy is a deliberately vague goal, since it will likely include nuclear, natural gas and (not really existing) clean coal in the mix. But traditional renewable energy like wind [...]
Last week I wrote a column asking the question: whatever happened to the Gulf oil spill? Thanks to presidential commissions and great investigative reporting, we know a great deal about why the spill happened and what impact it might have on the land and the water of the Gulf. In the news, though, the spill [...]
