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As PG&E Filed For Bankruptcy, Swaroop Kept Fighting For Energy Justice

"Shalini Swaroop is general counsel for Marin Clean Energy, the first of a new breed of electricity providers in California known as community choice aggregators, or CCAs. When Marin Clean Energy launched in 2010, it gave San Francisco Bay Area residents a government-run alternative to Pacific Gas & Electric, the monopoly utility that recently filed for bankruptcy protection amid huge wildfire liabilities."

Source: LA Times, 04/17/2019

"Want To Limit Global Warming? Electrify Everything, Finds Study"

"Researchers at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) in Finland and Energy Watch Group (EWG) have completed a 4½ year study that examined how to meet the goals of the Paris climate accords without such measures as carbon capture and geoengineering. Their conclusion? Run everything on electricity and generate all of that electricity using renewables, primarily solar."

Source: CleanTechnica, 04/17/2019
June 18, 2019 to June 19, 2019

Roadmap 12: Test Drive the Future

This conference on electric, shared and smart mobility takes place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Learn about developing trends, new product lines, participate in smart mobility tours and interactive sessions, network with leaders in industry, government and utilities. Media attendance welcome.

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May 1, 2019

DEADLINE: Murray Fromson Journalism Fellowship

The 2019 Fromson Journalism Fellowship, May 31-Jun 7 in Israel, is for journalists who cover environment, renewable energy, water research and innovation. Theme is "AgTech in the Negev". Applications are due by May 1; however, selections will be made on an ongoing basis up to the deadline.

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"Trump Budget Seeks Cuts In Science Funding"

"President Trump’s third budget request, released Monday, again seeks cuts to a number of scientific and medical research enterprises, including a 13 percent cut to the National Science Foundation, a 12 percent cut at the National Institutes of Health and the termination of an Energy Department program that funds speculative technologies deemed too risky for private investors."

Source: Washington Post, 03/12/2019

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