US Energy Efficiency Industry Employs Over Two Million People
The US energy efficiency industry added more new jobs than any other industry in the country’s entire energy sector in...
Category: Betterment
California’s Gov. Brown Signs 100% Renewables by 2045 Into Law
Climate groups are praising the work of local organizers after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday legislation committing the state to 100 percent clean electricity...
9,800 New Solar Systems Installed By GRID Alternatives In California
The solar power nonprofit GRID Alternatives recently celebrated reaching the mark of 9,800 California solar power systems installed for low-income...
New ‘Medicare for All’ House Caucus Formed to Promote Single Payer Healthcare
A large group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives established a new “Medicare for All” caucus on Thursday morning. This...
Good News: Less Coal Burned Leads to Decline in Mercury Contamination in Tuna
Levels of highly toxic mercury contamination in Atlantic bluefin tuna are rapidly declining, according to a new study. That trend does...
New Opportunities for California’s Low-Income Households to Go Solar
Solar industry, renewable energy and environmental justice organizations and advocates applauded a decision today by the California Public Utilities Commission...
Wells Fargo Ordered To Pay $97 Million For Violating Labor Laws
Wells Fargo was ordered to pay California employees $97 million for violating the state’s labor laws. Judge Percy Anderson handed...
Court Orders Maine’s Alt-Right Governor to Expand Medicaid
On Monday, a state judge ordered the Maine Department of Health and Gov. Paul LePage (R) to follow through on a...
North Carolina’s Public Employees Seek Raise Pointing to Last Year’s Success Raising State Minimum Wage
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
Vowing to End Corporate Bullying of Workers, Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Restore Union Power
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
New Jersey Enacts Automatic Voter Registration in Effort to Strengthen Democracy
Joining a promising pro-democracy wave, a signature from Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday added New Jersey to the ranks...
Michigan Schools Save Money With Solar Projects
A Flushing, Michigan, school district will soon be part of a solar project that is forecast to save the community...
Wind and Solar Could Meet 80 Percent of the United States’ Electricity Demand
A new study from US researchers has shown that wind and solar power generation could reliably meet 80% of the...
Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever And People Don’t Want Medicaid Messed With
The surprising success of the 2018 Affordable Care Act enrollments in the face of sabotage by the Trump administration was...
Elizabeth Warren Lays Out Plan To Hold Health Insurers Accountable
WASHINGTON ― In a speech to a liberal health policy conference on Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed new rules to...
Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare For All’ Online Town Hall Draws Over 1 Million Live Viewers
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on Tuesday night to promote single-payer health care, or “Medicare for all,” drew a live...
Let’s Wrench Power Back From the Billionaires: Bernie Sanders
Here is where we are as a planet in 2018: after all of the wars, revolutions and international summits of...
Despite Trump Tantrums, Growth Of Solar Power Strongest In Red States & Republicans Love Solar
Donald Trump’s desire to pollute America’s skies with millions of tons of poisonous gases from coal-fired generating plants is running...
Trump’s Sabotage Efforts A Miserable Failure As Obamacare Signups Break Record
Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, a record-breaking number of Americans enrolled in Obamacare insurance plans...
Wind Power Saved USA Tens of Billions of Dollars, Study Finds
A study done by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and published by Nature Energy in August finds that wind power in...
Obama Greatness Proven By New Census Data Showing He Raised Incomes and Lowered Poverty
Incomes went up, poverty went down, and the number of people with health insurance increased during Barack Obama’s final year...
Bernie Sanders To Propose New Rule Requiring Fair Prices For Taxpayer-Funded Drugs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to propose a new rule Monday that would require pharmaceutical companies to charge fair prices...
Rooftop Solar Is Growing Like A Weed, Despite Fossil Fuel Billionaires Trying To Crush It
Thom Hartmann talks about the growing interest and support for residential solar power applications, and all the way dirty fossil...
Trumpcare is Dead. Long Live Obamacare!
Seven years of Republican promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act withered away to almost nothing on the Senate floor...
Bernie Sanders Celebrates Trump’s Crushing Healthcare Defeat In The Senate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) celebrated the collapse of the Republican health care bill and called it a great victory for...
Nevada May Become First State To Offer Medicaid To All
Nevadans will find out this week whether their state will become the first in the country to allow anyone to...
Prince Secretly Donated $25 Million To Help Solar Power Startups
It’s been a little over a year since the world lost Prince, but his influence is still strong as ever and...
Despite What The Corporate Media Professes, Survey Shows Young People Want Progressive Change
A new survey conducted by the Runawayinequality.org Educational Network shows that younger Americans (ages 18-40) overwhelmingly support bold proposals to...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Raise The Minimum Wage
Sen. Bernie Sanders along with House and Senate Democrats introduced a bill today that will give Democrats a powerful rallying...
Trump and His Fossil Fuel Buddies Can’t Make The Clean Energy Economy Disappear
While President Trump’s executive order turning back many Obama-era climate change policies is great optics for his energy policy conservative...
After Trumpcare Failure, Bernie Sanders & Progressives Push Medicare For All Plan
With the plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act dead for the moment, Senator Bernie Sanders is trying...
Americans Rejoice as Trumpcare Con Collapses
Well, the health care vote was canceled. Again. Just two and a half weeks after it was introduced, the American...
Solar Spring Break 2017 Offers Hands-On Training While Installing In Under-Served Communities
Spring break is coming! Spring break is coming! But instead of going to the beach, or the mountains, or wherever...
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds St. Louis’ $11 Minimum Wage
The Missouri Supreme Court gave low-wage workers in St. Louis a raise on Tuesday. The five-judge panel issued a ruling...
Progressives Bernie Sanders And Elizabeth Warren Win Senate Leadership Posts
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will both have seats at the Senate Democratic leadership...
Voters will soon be casting their ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington to raise the minimum wage
Voters, “tired of waiting” for federal lawmakers, will soon be casting their ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington to...
Obama Economy Slashes Poverty Rate
If such a large percentage of the American people weren’t plagued with willful ignorance and inherent stupidity, or an inability...
600 Megawatt Colorado Wind Farm Blows Past ALEC Roadblock
The powerful lobbying organization ALEC has been trying to trip up the US wind industry for years, but it looks...
Community Solar Project to Retrain Underemployed and Unemployed Coal Miners
San Diego-based Solar Alliance Energy plans to build a 500 kW community solar generation and battery storage project in Southern...
Clinton Proposes Raising Taxes on U.S. Billionaire Estates
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed raising taxes on inherited property to 65 percent for the largest...
Middle Class Americans Just Got a Huge Income Boost
It looks like Americans finally got a raise. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday released its annual report on income,...
Right-Wing Corporate Media Ignores The Fact That Obama is Officially America’s Greatest Job Creator President
Guess who gets no credit for record setting job growth that is hardly a one-off since it’s going on for...
Scott Walker Defeated As Federal Judge Strikes Down Parts of Wisconsin Voter Suppression Laws
(Reuters) – A federal judge has struck down a string of Wisconsin voting restrictions passed by the Republican-led legislature and...
President Obama Announces Solar-Boosting Initiative
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a series of measures aimed at boosting access to solar energy—a move one environmental...
Tennessee Thumbs Nose At Reactionary Koch Bros, Hosts Cutting-Edge Solar Energy Storage Demo
The great state of Tennessee is on the cutting edge of new energy storage tech, thanks partly to its role...
Victory For Labor — D.C. Enacts $15 Minimum Wage
The growing Fight for 15 movement had a huge victory this week. Washington, D.C. passed legislation on Monday night that...
Why the Verizon Worker’s Victory is A Big Deal
On Friday, May 27, the six-and-a-half-week Verizon strike came to an end with a tentative contract agreement. The Communications Workers...
McDonald’s CEO Admits Obama’s Economy and Higher Wages Is A Huge Success
The CEO of McDonald’s fast food chain, Steve Easterbrook, was pleased to announce that driven by the President’s push for...
Uninsured Rate Cut to Single Digits Thanks to Obamacare
More than 7 million Americans who were previously uninsured received healthcare coverage in 2015, during the second full year of...
New York Joins California on the Path to a $15 Minimum Wage and Paid Family Leave
California’s legislature passed a $15 minimum wage on Thursday—and the same day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislators made a...
