The Carlyle Group is investing billions in United States infrastructure the government can no longer afford, with particular interest in electric microgrids, a Carlyle executive said in Chicago Monday.
"We think that actually we're in sort of the…
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Congress hasn't allocated funding explicitly for the Smart Grid since the Obama stimulus package in 2009, the Congressional Research Service noted this month, and without Congressional support, the grid could develop in slow and piecemeal fashion,…
People who want to know what trees to plant for a changing climate sometimes have trouble getting a clear answer, in part because the answer varies by region, in part because the effects of climate change are uncertain, and in part because the best…
Invasive trees have demonstrated their adaptive mettle, so it shouldn't come as a shock that they are likely to outperform natives as climate change alters growing conditions. But a U.S. Forest Service analysis shows the invaders hold a dramatic…
Self-driving cars remain the solution to the unacceptable number of fatalities caused by human-piloted cars, a pioneer in vehicle autonomy said yesterday when asked about the impact on his industry of an Uber self-driving car killing someone.
Chris…
There are four main problems in urban transportation that require four separate solutions, transit guru Jarrett Walker said in Chicago in March, urging people to be wary of tech companies that claim to solve more than one problem at a time.
Walker is…
Four years ago the electric utilities were roiled by predictions they would collapse before an onslaught of solar panels and windmills and batteries at homes and businesses that wouldn't need utilities anymore.
They pulled themselves together by…
The Congressional Research Service warned members of Congress last month that President Trump's import tariffs on solar panels could lead to retaliatory actions against the United States.
The threat of such retaliation has led to the repeal of import…
President Trump claimed in his State of the Union Address "to have ended the war on beautiful clean coal," but coal continues to decline in competition with cheap natural gas. I asked Jim Connaughton, who chaired the White House Council on…
The repatriation of cash flowing in the wake of the Republican tax law will reduce pollution and energy use at home, according to the former Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality for the presidency of George W. Bush.
However,…
