November 29, 2012

Coal's Not Dead, Solar's Not Hot & All That Gas

Anya Litvak, Pittsburgh Business Times


Pittsburgh Business Times

Alan Walker, Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development, thinks the state’s on the verge of its first state energy policy. “And it’s going to be a good one,” he promised. “It’s going to be so good” that the feds may want to copy our homework.

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TAGGED: Solar, Coal

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