When CRES Forum Director of Policy and Advocacy Charles Hernick agreed to speak on a Climate Action Panel in Salt Lake City for the recent Governor’s Energy Summit, he probably couldn’t have predicted just how momentous that event and the days that followed would be for the Beehive State. Governor Gary Herbert (R-UT) and CRES […]

CRES constantly extols the ideal of the “all of the above” approach to energy. While we are excited about emerging energy technology and developing new resources, we also highly value our nation’s traditional energy resources—and we advocate for investing in research aimed at making them more efficient. Coal is and will continue to be an […]

  Lately we’ve been blogging about corporations that have achieved or have committed to a 100 percent net-zero carbon footprint—but what about an entire town? Newport, New Hampshire, bills itself as “The Sunshine Town,” so perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise its 6,500 citizens voted to build the state’s largest municipal solar project—a two-megawatt DC […]

Last week, we blogged about new poll of 18- to 24-year-old voters from our friends at the American Conservation Coalition (ACC) and the Conservative Energy Network (CEN), which demonstrated unequivocal support for clean energy development among Millennial Republicans. Those findings matched dozens of similar polls, including our own 2017 polling. Even though it’s only been […]

The country’s largest clean technology incubator, Greentown Labs, has formally debuted their brand-new Global Center for Cleantech Innovation headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts—just outside of Boston. The grand opening ceremony that took place earlier this week was covered in an article by the Boston Business Journal, which highlighted the fact that the center was developed from […]

Our friends at the American Conservation Coalition (ACC) and the Conservative Energy Network (CEN) just released the results of their joint energy polling on 18- to 24-year-old voters, and they are quite compelling. The key takeaways are that younger members of the millennial generation favor free markets, greater energy choice, and cleaner energy sources by […]

  Probably the single most compelling reason that greater numbers of conservatives are getting behind clean energy is job creation. We’ve been profiling some of the country’s biggest employers, including Visa, Apple, and Google, to demonstrate the effort the private sector is putting in to advancing clean energy. And last week, to recognize National Small […]

This week is National Small Business Week, and CRES is highlighting the efforts that small businesses around the country have contributed to advancing clean energy technology. In the state of Oregon, we were introduced to Onboard Dynamics through our friends at Clean Energy Business Network (CEBN) and wanted to share their story. Natural gas compression technology […]

  Interview with: Dave Currier of Henniker Brewing Company (Managing Member) https://www.hennikerbrewing.com/ Q&A 1) What is the name of your business and what do you do? Our business is Henniker Brewing Company and we started in 2011. We are a craft brewer in New Hampshire and pride ourselves in brewing quality beer that New Hampshire is […]

  This week is National Small Business Week, and CRES is highlighting the efforts that small businesses around the country have contributed to advancing clean energy technology. Small businesses are the backbone of America’s economy and are leading the way in energy innovation. For example, the majority of America’s 1.9 million energy efficiency workers work […]