US Electric Grid Is Reaching the End Game
(Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)) This Summer, three decades of underinvestment and looting of the U.S. electrical industry grid system came home to roost. A week-long blackout in New York City, calls for "voluntary" conservation, the shutting off of power to large industrial enterprises, and lowering of voltages across the nation, were all evidence of the wreckage that has been made of this most critical infrastructure.

Clean Energy Bill Could Create Half a Million Jobs
(Environment News Service) Green energy and environmental measures will be incorporated into the design of the World Trade Center Redevelopment, New York Governor George Pataki has announced. Plans for the Freedom Tower and other facilities at the World Trade Center site will feature energy technologies to better protect environmental resources, utilize renewable energy resources, and maximize energy efficiency. The governor said September 7 that the Freedom Tower, World Trade Center Office Towers 2,3, and 4, as well as the World Trade Center Memorial and Memorial Museum will all be designed to achieve the US Green Building Council's "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" Gold certification requirements.

Conference touts alternatives to oil
(Chambersburg Public Opinion) Koch powered his diesel Chevrolet Suburban from Williamsport to Chambersburg on vegetable oil he gets from a bar. He also burns the vegetable oil in his furnace. Between them he saves about $4,000 a year. "I want to solve my own problems," Koch said... Frank Neglia, formerly of New York, came to the conference specifically to see General Motors' fuel cell HydroGen3 minivan. "I read about this when I was a kid of about 12," said the 82-year-old Neglia. "They've been sitting on the technology for years...