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Utility joins with Facebook
Glendale Water & Power will be one of the first utility companies to join a pilot program featuring a first-of-its-kind Facebook application that will allow roughly 4 million energy users from California to Chicago to create competitions and share insight...Tags: Facebook, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Media Industry, Social Media, Energy Saving
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Glendale Water & Power: Smart meters to stay
Glendale Water & Power plans to wait on creating an opt-out policy for those who oppose smart meters until a California regulatory body decides on the matter.
Some customers have been stumping at City Council meetings claiming the new meters emit...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Conservation, Environmental Issues
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Verdugo students get 'smart'
Eleven men on Thursday celebrated the completion of a 96-hour-long certification course on “smart meters” at the Verdugo Jobs Center — the first of its kind in Glendale. Under the instruction of Professor Alan Sanga, who has an...Tags: Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy, The Salvation Army, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Electronics
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Political landscape
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a no-show at a Bob Hope Airport political event Thursday, but the "No on Proposition 23" show went on without him. The event was called to criticize Proposition 23, one of nine statewide measures on the Nov. 2 ballot. It...Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Career and Workplace, Government, Bob Hope, Referenda
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Cities defend coal practices
CITY HALL — Local utility officials this week fired back against an environmental advocacy group's mailer campaign targeting the use of electricity generated at coal-fired power plants. The Renewable Energy Conservation Project produced and sent...Tags: Renewable Energy, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Metal and Mineral, Energy Saving
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Funds target youth jobs
Local youth looking to enter the workforce could get a jump-start in energy industry jobs thanks to a job training program funded with $100,000 secured by Rep. Adam Schiff, officials announced last week. Stakeholders say the program was inspired by the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Waste Management and Pollution Control, Colleges and Universities, Employment Opportunities, Burbank (Los Angeles, California)
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Solar help is on its way
CITY HALL — Glendale residents may soon take part in a new Los Angeles County program to help property owners with the high upfront cost of installing solar energy systems and other energy-efficient upgrades. The City Council unanimously...Tags: Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles, Family, Energy Saving
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Time to flip kill switch on Proposition 16
Democracy used to be simple in this country — whoever gets the most votes gets to call the shots. Requiring more votes than that was pretty serious stuff and always had to do with the balance of powers between the president and Congress. Our...Tags: Heads of State, Justice and Rights, Government, Companies and Corporations, Civil Rights
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Ecotality sues to block NRG's electric vehicle charging stations
SACRAMENTO — A Bay Area clean technology firm is suing state energy regulators, accusing them of granting an out-of-state power company a monopoly over EV charging stations in California. Ecotality, a San Francisco maker of electric charging...Tags: Dynegy Incorporated, NRG Energy Incorporated, Companies and Corporations, Litigation, Justice System
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Climate change
Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne penned a typically thoughtful and informative article ("BP's Whiting refinery agrees to cut air pollution," News, May 24), about the new emissions cleanup agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency and the...Tags: Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lobbying, Environmental Politics, BP Plc
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Obama urges Congress to extend clean-energy tax credits
NEWTON, Iowa — From a wind-power factory in this battleground state, President Obama urged Congress to extend tax credits he said would save jobs in the field of clean-energy production.
Obama said continuing the production tax credit would save...Tags: Government, Wind Power, Renewable Energy, Unemployment Benefits, Maytag Corp.
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Voice: Wind Zero project would have helped Valley
El CentroI have lived in the Imperial Valley for 24 years. The Valley has grown by four-fold since I arrived in 1987. Many new businesses have opened (supported in no small part by Mexicali). We now have a mall (refer to last comment), when we only had a Kmart. We...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Kmart, Safeway Inc., Facebook
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