With budget-cutting all the rage in Washington, and the seemingly inviolable Defense Department budget facing cuts, it would not seem a propitious time for the Pentagon to launch an ambitious clean energy agenda. On October 21, at Climate One, two experts – one posted at, and one outside, the Pentagon – argued that DOD’s clean energy programs improve the military’s war-fighting capability and should escape the budget ax.
8/18/2010
New York Times: Bring in the Marines
“Within 10 years, the United States Navy will get one half of all its energy needs, both afloat and onshore, from non-fossil fuel sources,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says. Read Todd Woody’s coverage here.
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