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Utility rates set to rise in Burbank
Burbank utility customers are in for another round of bill hikes this July, with electric and water rates slated to jump 1.75% and 4.75%, respectively, officials said. State mandates to increase renewable energy use, which is more costly, are driving...Tags: Energy Saving, Alternative Energy, Environmental Issues
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Big bill for green power
A state law that requires 20% of the city's average energy sales to come from renewable energy is projected to cost the city $17.8 million this fiscal year, officials reported on Tuesday. The financial burden of complying with the state mandate —...
Tags: Justice System, Energy Saving, Conservation, Alternative Energy, Crime, Law and Justice
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Burb's Eye View: The sun and Sinai Temple
The traditional Hanukkah celebrations at Temple Sinai in Glendale are going to get even brighter this year. Folded into this week’s festival of lights is a fledgling effort to raise money for 120 or so solar panels to affix to the temple’s...Tags: Solar Energy, Hanukkah, Alternative Energy, Religion and Belief, Environmental Issues
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Sculptures mark sister-city anniversary
Delegates and a dance theater group from Burbank’s sister city of Incheon, South Korea, commemorated the 50-year relationship this week with dance performances, dinners and, on Tuesday, the ribbon-cutting for sculptures symbolizing the friendship....Tags: Sculpture, Arts and Culture, Korean War (1950-1953), Libraries, Energy Saving
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Burbank Adult School is in session
The Burbank Adult School is kicking off its fall session with several new courses, including classes designed to prepare students for careers in the “green” technology field.
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Burb's Eye View: Keeping the city ahead of the energy curve
The U.S. Department of Energy could learn a thing or two from the researchers and power-company employees of Burbank. While the nation’s energy policy slowly, laboriously trudges toward sustainability and cleaner energy practices, Burbank Water and...Tags: Shareholders, Energy Saving, Alternative Energy, Plant Openings, U.S. Department of Energy
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Solar energy installations heat up
Spurred on by consumer rebates, Burbank Water and Power has seen a doubling in the number of solar installations in the past two years. There are now 93 solar energy systems in Burbank, compared to 36 in July of last year, and nearly all were funded...Tags: Solar Energy, Energy Saving, Alternative Energy, IKEA, California
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Olive Avenue Confidential: City Council should join fight against plastic
As transparent a concession to corporate lobbies as they come, Sacramento's recent failure to pass legislation that would have phased out single-use plastic grocery bags in California wasn't just a great disappointment to environmentalists.
The...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Weather Reports, Sacramento, University of Southern California, Manhattan (New York City)
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Feds won't prosecute wind farm if turbine blades kill a condor
Federal wildlife officials on Friday for the first time agreed not to prosecute a developer if an endangered California condor is struck and killed by turbine blades at its proposed wind farm in the Tehachapi Mountains, about 100 miles north of Los...Tags: Solar Energy, Conservation, Fines, Wildlife, Endangered Species
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George Packer chronicles American boom and bust in 'The Unwinding'
George Packer's new nonfiction book, "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," has many of the qualities of an epic novel. Packer's subject is the last 35 years of U.S. history, the decades that gave us the conservative "Contract With...Tags: Ethics, Politics, Book, Biofuels, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Bobby Likis: Use ethanol to meet clean air standards
On May 13 your editorial called for Gov. Rick Scott to sign HB4001, removing ethanol from the Renewable Fuel Standards. Many of the points on which you based your opinion are wrong. The governor should veto this jobs and investment-killing bill. For 42...Tags: Politics, Rick Scott, Ethanol, Government, Biofuels
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Minn. ethanol makers hope to snap back this year
FAIRMONT, Minn. - Farmer Dwayne Ehlert remembers the moment last August when he delivered a truckload of corn to an ethanol plant here and sold it for a record $8.16 a bushel. "I knew it was good for me, and I knew it wasn't good for anyone else,"...Tags: Energy Saving, Business Enterprises, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Alternative Energy, Biofuels
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