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THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, [Sarah Palin] hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere.
[John McCain]: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that runnin...
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BANGOR - Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. has redesigned the bills it sends to customers.
The new design, based on customer feedback and unveiled Thursday, is much easier to understand than the current bill, the company said. It clearly separates Bangor Hydro delivery charges from third- party supply charges. It also provides customers with energy comparison information and, in most cases, will be reduced to one page.
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By comparison, a 250-megawatt coal-fired plant proposed for construction near Great Falls, at a cost of about $700 million, would produce an estimated 2.8 million tons of greenhouse gases each year. Already, lawmakers in Montana, Washington and Oregon have passed legislation requiring utilities to phase in additional renewable energy sources over time. States are calling for adding more clean, renewable sources of energy to the region's power supply and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Marin Clean Energy would offer two service plans, a "light green" and a "dark green." Assuming enough entities join the power authority, and the authority succeeds in finding acceptable suppliers, light-green ratepayers would receive 25 percent of their power from renewable sources "with rates equivalent to those of the incumbent utility," according to the business plan. Marin Clean Energy would increase "this supply to more than 50 percent by 2014." Ratepayers who choose the dark-green alternative would receive 100 percent of their power from renewable sources "at a specified price premium reflective of renewable energy and related program operating costs." The business plan posits that the 100 percent green alternative could cost 5 to 10 percent more than current power in the first ye...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial materiality of sustainability performance data relating to energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, supply chain policies, and environmental management is growing. As a result, a wider range of senior managers need confidence in these data sets and management systems. To help decision-makers in roles like Head of External Affairs, Chief Risk Officer, CFO, and Head of Sustainability the Verdantix Green Quadrant report provides a detailed, fact-based comparison of the assurance services provided by 13 global suppliers.
The analysis was based on interviews with 15 international buyers representing firms with combined revenues of $362 billion, supplier responses to a 48 point questionnaire and interviews wi...
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