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EPA's New GHG Map Tool Allows Users to Learn About State and Local GHG Emissions
U.S. EPA
EPA's interactive GHG Map Tool allows users to view and sort GHG data for calendar year 2010 from more than 6,700 facilities in a variety of ways—including by state, county, facility, industrial sector, and the type of GHG emitted. This information can be used by communities to identify nearby sources of GHGs, help businesses compare and track emissions, and provide information to state and local governments.
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South Florida Climate Change Action Plan Unveiled
The Miami Herald
A four-county effort to come up with a climate change action plan for South Florida produced a draft report in early December.
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New Paper and Webinar on Solar Renewable Energy Certificate (SREC) Markets: Status and Trends
NREL
This paper examines experience in solar renewable energy certificate (SREC) markets in the United States. It describes how SREC markets function, examines the trends of SREC markets, and explores key issues and challenges facing SREC markets and attempts by policymakers to address some of these market barriers. A webinar building off the paper will be held on January 18th.
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New Report Finds Aging Water Infrastructure Burdens U.S. Economy
American Society of Civil Engineers
This report from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) found that unless new investments are made in water and wastewater infrastructure systems, by 2020 unreliable and insufficient water infrastructure will cost the average American household $900 a year in higher water rates and lower wages. American businesses can expect an additional $147 billion in increased costs and the economy will lose 700,000 jobs by 2020.
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Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
Journalist and historian Catherine Tumber argues in this provocative book that America's gritty Rust Belt cities could play a central role in a greener, low-carbon, relocalized future.
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Federal Funding Available for State, Local, and Tribal Governments
U.S. EPA
DOE Smart Grid Data Access Funding Opportunity - $8 million
USDA 2012 Hazardous Fuels Woody Biomass Utilization Grant - $3 million
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Secretary LaHood Announces Funding for 46 Innovative Transportation Projects Through Third Round of Popular TIGER Program
U.S. DOT
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced that 46 transportation projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico will receive a total of $511 million from the third round of the U.S. Department of Transportation's popular TIGER program.
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EPA Issues First National Standards for Mercury Pollution from Power Plants
U.S. EPA
The standards will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution controls that are already in use at more than half of the nation's coal-fired power plants. EPA estimates that the new safeguards will prevent as many as 11,000 premature deaths and 4,700 heart attacks a year.
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RFP now available for Local Sustainability Matching Fund - Deadline March 5, 2012
The Funders' Network
The purpose of the Local Sustainability Matching Fund is twofold: to catalyze partnerships between local government sustainability directors and local, place-based foundations, including community foundations, and to advance important community-based sustainability initiatives. The Fund will provide partnership investments between $25,000 and $75,000, with a 1:1 match required by one or more local foundation.
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Call for Applications: 2012 Sustainable Cities Design Academy
AAF
The Sustainable Cities Design Academy (SCDA) connects project teams and multi-disciplinary sustainable design experts through highly interactive design workshops that help project teams advance their green infrastructure and community development goals.
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