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China Leaves U.S. in Dust With $361 Billion Renewable Energy Investment

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World’s largest energy market looks to leave fossil fuels behind, while incoming Trump administration denies climate change and doubles down on dirty energy

By Nika Knight, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 1-5-2017

China already has the world’s largest installation of wind turbines. (Photo: Sandia Labs/flickr/cc)

While climate activists in the U.S. mount a resistance to the incoming climate-change-denying Trump administration, on the other side of the Pacific, environmentalists have reason to celebrate: China on Thursday announced that it will invest $361 billion in renewable energy by 2020.

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State Now Claims It Owns the Wind — Taxing Renewable Energy “Out of Existence”

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By Matt Agorist. Published 8-14-2016 by The Free Thought Project

Photo: Leaflet (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Leaflet (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Wyoming — Shortly after they realized the potential for wind energy creation in Wyoming, renewable energy companies began constructing turbines on private property and then selling the clean power they generated to the residents. However, shortly after their ventures began, Wyoming government officials, acting on behalf of fossil fuel interests, moved in for the kill.

The state legislature asked the question, “Who owns the wind?”

Without much debate, the Wyoming legislature quickly determined that the state does. Continue reading →

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Locally-Controlled, Renewable Energy Championed as Key to Climate Justice

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Published on Friday, December 05, 2014 by Common Dreams
by Jon Queally, staff writer
Wind turbines, Vendsyssel, Denmark. Photo by Tomasz Sienicki (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-1.0, GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Wind turbines, Vendsyssel, Denmark. Photo by Tomasz Sienicki (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-1.0, GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons


As progress at the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru has been reported as “slow” by many observers so far, green campaigners on Friday called on world governments participating in the talks to end their continued dependence on outdated fossil fuel- and nuclear-powered energy systems and urged investment and policies geared toward building clean, sustainable, community-based energy solutions.

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