Does Home Sharing Help to Build a Sustainable Economy?

2016-09-30

In short, there’s a legitimate case that the success of the new crop of sharing economy companies will help to drive the evolution of the U.S. economy onto more sustainable footing.

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Coast Guard Claim of “No External Participation” Contradicted by Shipping Lobbyist

2016-09-21

 Lobbyist was “Very Engaged” in Anti-Offshore Wind Energy Study In 2009, not long after President Obama declared the creation of an offshore wind energy industry a national priority, shipping industry lobbyists began working to block it. When the U.S. Interior Department began an accelerated leasing process the following year “to facilitate siting, leasing, and construction… Read more »

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Is Shipping Industry Lobbyist Working to Sink Offshore Wind Energy?

2016-09-12

Ms. Carpenter is said to have been was “very engaged” with a Coast Guard report that could dramatically limit offshore wind energy development.

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Text Messages Show Taxpayer-Funded Consumer “Advocate” Conspiring with APS Lobbyist

2016-09-8

“To Shape the Value of Solar Study Before it Starts” For 18 months, we’ve reported to Arizonans the evidence we’ve uncovered that indicates public business between captured regulators and utility lobbyists is taking place via text messages to conceal their communications. Now a small batch of texts between Lon Huber, Arizona’s Residential Utility Consumer Office’s… Read more »

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Shipping Industry Lobbyists Influence Coast Guard to Limit Offshore Wind Energy

2016-09-6

Newly uncovered research points toward pervasive influence by shipping industry lobbyists over a U.S. Coast Guard study ostensibly designed to recommend how to safely integrate a new offshore wind energy industry with shipping off the Eastern Seaboard. If the study’s recommendations are codified into policy, a robust offshore wind energy industry off the coasts of… Read more »

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