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Suppliers follow Wal-Mart’s lead to reduce carbon emissions

(Photo via Wal-Mart)Even as the largest private electricity consumer in the United States, Wal-Mart found that 90 percent of its emissions came from its chain of suppliers.

Wind energy forecasting takes new steps forward

(Photo by Sharon Drummond via Creative Commons)On the Great Plains, the gusts ahead of a strong cold front can deliver thunder, lightning, hail and downpours. Also: A surge in electricity from wind farms big enough to make the power grid go haywire if it caught utilities off guard.

Can state harvesting guidelines keep biomass sustainable?

A forest in north-central Minnesota. (Photo by Faruk Ates via Creative Commons)As a Midwest biomass group promotes a goal of drawing 10 percent of the region's heating energy from wood fuels by 2025, more questions are sure to arise about whether that amount of fuel could be harvested sustainably.

Fix for Illinois renewable law faces utility opposition

Mendota Hills Wind Farm, Illinois. (Photo by Ron Zack via Creative Commons)Support in the Illinois legislature is slowly growing for a proposal that backers say will save ratepayers millions while freeing up state renewable energy funds currently sitting unspent.